[Trick] How To Know If Google Updated Their Algorithm

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Traffic suddenly dropped? Your site might be affected by a Google algorithm update. Google releases multiple small updates to their Search Engine algorithm to prevent webmasters from gaming the engine. Most of these updates are not announced officially and people have no choice but to speculate.

After a semi-major update, threads like these pop up for discussion
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/google-update-again.1047027/

There are two ways in which you can find out if there has been an update:
  1. Google announces it themselves (doesn't happen often)
  2. Analyzing a data warehouse of website rankings
Since the first option is pretty much ruled out, Moz offers something known as Mozcast.

Using this you can see the fluctuations in rankings according to Moz. Now, Moz might not be the most accurate in terms of this but they do have a large enough database to be able to produce something like this.

For example, here's the Mozcast for the Medic Update.
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You can also see a list of (possible) Google Algorithm updates here:
https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

I'd love to hear your opinion on this.
 
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All tools are good and gives more or less same result. I use accuranker.com/grump and they are pretty good
 
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