The June Core Algorithm Update rolled out in June 2021. But there was also a Page Experience Update that was released as well as a the June 2021 Spam Algorithm Update.
Attributing ranking fluctuations to specific website changes or links during a core algorithm update can be sketchy because some ranking drops might not have anything to do with website changes and be totally coincidental. Any ranking fluctuations in June 2021 will be even more difficult to attribute to any one kind of website change, given how many changes were made in the algorithm that month.
In May 2021 Google released an updated version of Keras-based TF-Ranking, a platform for researching and developing new learning to rank (LTR) models and get them into production quickly. That was followed in June and July with multiple spam and algorithm updates. Are they related? Google doesn’t know.
But the pace of algorithm releases has quickened to notably this summer.
Because Google released multiple updates in June and July 2021, it might be difficult to isolate specific changes and attribute ranking fluctuations to the core algorithm update.
Google’s John Mueller however emphasized that speed could definitely be related.
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