Blog / SEO Industry News / Google’s March 2024 Core Update and New Spam Policies: Penalties Already in Action On March 5th, Google announced a core update to its search algorithms and spam policies. It aims to greatly reduce the appearance of content created solely to attract clicks and display more content that people find … Read more
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google handed out tons of penalties and manual actions after releasing those new spam policies. Most SEOs don’t think this Google update will make a big difference … Read more
I ran a poll asking my X/Twitter followers if they think the new Google March core and spam updates will reduce unhelpful content from showing up in the search results by 40%? About 80% of the 1,385 votes said no, they don’t think it will reduce the low-quality, unhelpful content from showing up in the … Read more
Google’s algorithm is wasting no time in removing low quality sites from the search results. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the volume of sites affected by this update may reach historic levels not seen since the Panda and Penguin updates. 1. March 2024 Update Qualifies As Major I have been around for every single Google update … Read more
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. I have a deep dive into the new Google March 2024 core update, March 2024 spam update and the new spam policies. Google also updated its search … Read more
Google announced the March 2024 core update has now started to roll out and that this core update will take up to a month to fully roll out because it has updates to a few systems within the core ranking system. Google’s Helpful content system is now also part of the core update. In addition, … Read more
Google is rolling out its new March 2024 spam updates accompanying the very big March 2024 core update and three new spam policies. The new spam updates kick off this week and target scaled content and expired domain abuse, plus other spam, while giving notice of site reputation abuse for a May 2024 update. Google … Read more
Google’s Spam Explainer was updated to reflect the new realities introduced by the March 2024 Core Algorithm Update. The following is everything that was removed and added and what it means what the implications are for the core algorithm update. March 2024 Core Algorithm Update Google’s core algorithm update is without question one of the … Read more
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Business Profiles websites are now offline and redirecting elsewhere. Google updated its StoreBot user agent. Google Search is testing a more colorful buttoned up search app. … Read more
Google has announced a significant update to its search algorithms and policies to tackle spammy and low-quality content on its search engine. The March 2024 Core Update, which the company says is more extensive than its usual core updates, is now rolling out. This update includes algorithm changes to improve the quality of search results … Read more
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