Google has started rolling out its third core update of 2025 focusing on a broad core algorithm update that changes how the ranking system evaluates and ranks your content on google.

This Google December 2025 core update started rolling out on December 11 2025, and continues for up to 3 weeks until it is fully rolled out.

You can also checkout the core update status on the official Google Search Status Dashboard for 2025 Core Update Timeline. 

What’s New on December 2025 Algorithm Update

In this Google's third core update of 2025 following the March and June Core Update. There are some vital parts that google has focused in this update which is:

Incident Affecting Ranking: This pointed out that google is officially notifying everyone that its search ranking system is going to change, and this will impact the ranking behaviour of the pages in the search result. 

Don’t be alarmed, as this is not a technical issue, it's just google updating its way of evaluating the content which will temporarily create volatility in website search results.

Why Does This Core Update Matter?

This update may impact your keyword ranking in coming weeks because in this update the key major factor is ranking.

Google may shift your ranking from 1 to 30 without having any issue in the page. But no need to panic over this if you have taken precaution for this in the march update or april update. This shift in ranking is just a way of evaluating your content as per the current standards and ranking on this basis of that.

How To Prevent Your Website Form 2025 Core Update?

Google did not announce any specific guidelines to prevent your website from this core algorithm update for 2025, but they have provided some advice during the March 2025 Core Update.

What You Need To Look Out For:

• Rather than search-engine-first content focus more on the people-first-content

• Strengthen E-E-A-T across all the pages, blogs, or articles

• Audit and update outdated content and links

• Fix technical SEO related issues that may impact crawling or indexing related issues

• Keep Publishing high-quality, original, and factual content across platforms

• Stay consistent and look out for any loophole that may impact your website ranking and performance.

Note: These are some of the basic things you can do to prevent yourself from any future core update from google.

To Sum Up

Google continues to bring updates to its search algorithms and systems in 2026 also but make sure to prepare this in advance so your website can not be affected by this. If your preparation is strong nothing will be able to move your position from google search results, but a small gap can significantly impact your website so look out for that also.

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