We’re now a week into the Google March 2024 core and spam updates and, while we still have a few more weeks to go, we thought it would be useful to share what we have been seeing so far.

Keep in mind these updates are far from over and you should expect a lot more ranking volatility over the next few weeks.

In our new story, we cover the manual actions from last Wednesday and Thursday. We think the algorithm updates hit on Friday and Saturday before calming on Sunday and Monday. We also noticed some reversals on Monday.  

It will be a wild roller coaster for some sites, so buckle up.

Barry Schwartz,
Google algorithm safety instructor

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