Today is day 10 of the Google March 2024 core update rollout and Google March 2024 spam update. We believe we saw the core update touch down on March 8th and 9th and some possible recoveries or fluctuations on March 12th. Now I see more signs of Google search ranking volatility likely related to the core and spam updates today.
Let’s not forget the huge number of manual actions released about 9 days ago.
That being said, I am starting to see signs of more ranking fluctuations and volatility as of Friday, March 15th – likely related to both the core and spam updates.
Google did tell us that the core update would have multiple systems within it updated over the course of the month rollout – so maybe here is another system being updated?
I see these signs from both the third-party Google rank tracking tools and also from some spikes in chatter within the various SEO communities.
Google Tracking Tools
Let’s start with the tracking tools and show you what some of these tools are showing today. Note, not all are updated as of this morning, so I will come back in later today to update some of them:
SEO Chatter
Here is some of the early chatter I am seeing from the SEO community this morning across WebmasterWorld, Black Hat World and comments here. It is early, I expect more and more comments to be shared…
Are you all noticing anything big shuffling this Friday?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World.
