It is now four weeks and one day since the Google March 2024 core update started rolling out, 29 days since it started and yes, it is not done rolling out yet. Google’s Danny Sullivan and John Mueller both confirmed that yesterday, even though Google’s search status dashboard says the same thing.
Danny Sullivan said on X, “It’s still rolling out” and referenced material from its earlier blog post on the topic. Here are those posts:
John Mueller said on Reddit, “No, it’s not complete. It’ll be labeled complete when it’s finished rolling out.”
He then offered some advice saying that you should always work to make things better on your site, while also trying to diversify traffic beyond Google organic search. He wrote:
As you saw, I covered there have still been zero helpful content recoveries while also seeing there were core update recoveries. Here are our previous stories on these updates:
Google March 2024 Core Update Rolling Out – It’s A Big Core Update
Google March 2024 Core/Spam Update Early Reversals (It’s Far From Done…)
Google March 2024 Core & Spam Update Movement Today
Still No Google Helpful Content Update Recoveries But Yes Core Update Recoveries
Report: No Site Hit By The September Helpful Content Update Recovered Yet
Google: Fixing A Helpful Content Site Isn’t About Where Measuring Against The Previous Version Of That Site
Google Urges Patience As The March 2024 Core Update Continues To Rollout
Google Will Collect Feedback After The March Core & Spam Updates Are Done
Google: We Still Try To Avoid Overlapping Algorithmic Updates
~80% Feel Google’s March Core & Spam Updates Won’t Reduce Low-Quality Search Results
The Google search results are still somewhat turbulent, according to the ranking tools. I will say that the SEO chatter around these updates and movements around these updates has calmed a lot, despite the tracking tools showing movement.
Here is what the tools have shown over the past month or so:
Have any of you seen any recent movement?
I suspect the update will be done very soon, since I just posted that it is still rolling out – that is what normally happens. 😛
Forum discussion at X and Reddit.
Update: I am now seeing some chatter pick up later this afternoon. Chatter both at WebmasterWorld and comments here. Here is some of that chatter:
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