Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed on Twitter that core updates can sometimes impact both image search and local search results. This comes after Danny said that core updates don’t impact local results. But now he is saying “it depends” and can impact all content types across the search.
This comes after Glenn Gabe wrote a detailed piece on how core updates can impact image search. He showed examples of this happening and then pinged Danny to confirm.
Danny said “Core updates can involve image results or any type of content because they involve our core ranking systems that themselves involve all types of content. That’s why our page about them mentions “content” so often.”
