Helpful Content Update

The Helpful Content Update is a Google algorithm change (2022, integrated into core ranking 2024) that rewards content created primarily to help users while demoting content designed primarily to attract search traffic. The update particularly affects sites with substantial amounts of unhelpful or auto-generated content.

How This Applies to Home Care Marketing

The Helpful Content Update is particularly relevant for home care because it targets exactly the kind of content many agencies published previously—thin service pages, templated location content, and articles written for keywords rather than users. Agencies with genuinely helpful content benefit; those relying on SEO tricks suffer.

To align with this update, ask: “Would someone reading this content feel satisfied and helped?” For every page and article, there should be clear value beyond ranking for keywords. Content should demonstrate first-hand expertise and provide genuinely useful information families can’t easily find elsewhere.

Key Takeaway

Audit your content asking: “Is this genuinely helpful to someone researching home care?” Remove or substantially improve content that exists only for SEO purposes. Google increasingly recognizes and rewards authentic helpfulness over keyword-optimized but empty content.

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