Source: The attached page links to the page that explains what the major updates are. To make matters worse, another update is happening at the same time: the October 2023 Spam Update. This fact makes it difficult for experts to analyze, as the impact on traffic could be due to any of the updates. What we can try to do is conjecture the focus of the October core update by looking at previous communications.
For example, take a look at the Helpful Content Update announcement timeline oil and gas email list below: 2022 – How to create useful, authoritative, people-first content: the page about useful content was created and this is not the time when Google talks about prioritizing the reader when creating content. 08/18/2022 – article about “What Content Creators Need to Know About Google’s August 2022 Useful Content Update”. 04/19/2023 – The role of page experience in creating useful content: The topic of useful content came back in this article, even when the topic focused on page experience.
Google Search useful content system and your website: and finally the update announcement came. Now, if we look at Google’s announcements in parallel to the announcements about useful content and spam, we have: 12/15/2022 – Our latest update to quality rater guidelines: E-A-T receives an additional E for Experience. 04/19/2023 – I already talked about the article “The role of page experience in creating useful content” bringing news about user experience to Google Search Console reports.