As I mentioned briefly in my Friday video recap, I was starting to see renewed chatter on Friday morning around more Google search ranking volatility likely related to the ongoing Google March 2024 core update. I spotted some renewed chatter that lead through Friday, into Saturday and today. So I figured I’d cover it and share some of what SEOs are saying over the weekend.
We reported on volatility last Wedneday, on April 10th, and now we are seeing more of it. As a reminder, some sites got hit super hard by this update and no, it is not done yet. We have still not seen any real recoveries for sites hit by the September 2023 helpful content update recovery yet with this core update.
We are now 40 days and almost 40 nights since the update started rolling out and Passover is just around the corner. (sorry, had to…)
Both the Google ranking tracking tools and SEO chatter spiked over the past 48 hours.
SEO Chatter
Here is some of the chatter on social media, WebmasterWorld and comments here on this site over the past couple of days:
Glenn Gabe has been tracking the movement closely, comparing previously hit sites by previous core and helpful content updates. I find his shares very insightful. Here is his latest post this morning:
He wrote:
He shared some of eye-popping charts, here is one of them:
Here are more:
Google Tracking Tools
Many, not all, but many of the tools showed spikes over the past 24 hours or so. These are not insane spikes in volatility, well, Algoroo and Advanced Web Rankings show massive spikes but the others are not as heated.
More Google Update Stories
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
29 Days In The Google March 2024 Core Update Is Still Rolling Out
Reminder: Google’s Helpful Content Update Is No More – It’s A Core Update
New Google March 2024 Core Update Ranking Volatility
What are you all seeing? Think we are just about done after 40 days of this rolling out?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
