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Changes to Google Search Central docs · SEO fundamentals

Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content

Google has changed this page once since we started watching it on 3 October 2026.

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minor change Wording only: the meaning is the same

Google changed 'webpage' to 'web page' in the definition of 'main content'.

Lincoln Digital's AI Overview

Nothing changes in practice for site owners or SEOs; this is a spelling/formatting correction only.

Generated by AI from the change below: a guide to what it could mean, not a certainty.

Word for word

red was taken outgreen was put in

In “Main content”

Google Search defines "main content" as any part of the [removed: webpage][added: web page] that directly helps the page achieve its purpose. Depending on the primary intent of the page, the main content directly fulfills the page's purpose and could include:

On Google's page

The "before" is the same page with the earlier wording put back.

Before and after on Google's "Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content" page: removed words in red, added words in green

Changed between our checks at and (UK time)Google's “last updated” date moved from 1 Oct 2026 to 5 Oct 2026Link to this change

Quoted from Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content by Google, licensed under CC BY 4.0, only where it changed, with the changes marked.

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