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Google Search Change History 2016

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2016’s Google changes and updates across PPC & SEO

2016 has been a turbulent year for us all with life changing events such as Brexit, various high profile celebrity deaths and Trump taking over the US. It wasn’t all bad news however, with the Queen turning 90, British success at the Rio Olympics and how could we forget Boaty McBoatface. You can see more of 2016’s trends here. 

It wasn’t all about trends this year though, in the digital Search community we also endured a large amount of changes, which made us adapt and progress. Below we have outlined a timeline of search events which impacted the Google search results page and in effect PPC and SEO strategies across all businesses and industries!

January: Google Core Algorithm Update
February: AdWord Adverts Removed from Right Side Bar
April: Facebook Launch Live Streaming
May: Mobile Ranking Algorithm Boost
June: AdWords Introduce Tablet Bidding
June: AdWords Advert Labels Go Green
August: AdWords Introduce Expanded Ads
September: ‘Possum’ Update
September: Demographic Targeting for Search Ads
September: Penguin Goes Real-Time
October: AdWords Introduce Responsive GDN Ads
October: PPC Mobile Message Extensions Available
October: GDN Gets Keyword Targeting
November: RIP Vine
December: Bing Introduce Expanded Ads

Whether you use the above to recap the year or swat up to impress, a lot has happened in 2016 with Google Search and it doesn’t end there. 2017 already holds exciting developments including a redesign for Google AdWords (woohoo) and also some changes to local search ads using promoted pins, so stay tuned as we’ll have updates all year round.

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