Google officially announced the rollout of the December 2025 core update on Thursday at around 12:25 pm ET. The update took 18 days to roll out and completed on December 29th. Google said this "is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites." Here is what we saw from this core update and when the volatility hit.
In this video I break down all the details about this December 2025 Google core update.
0:00 - Introduction 0:35 - Google December 2025 core update facts 1:16 - Google December 2025 core update volatility information and dates 3:00 - Unusually calm between 4:00 - How to recover from a Google core update including smaller core update 6:56 - Conclusion
