Category: Core update

The update took 19 days to rollout and was a pretty impactful update.

This update also aims to surface useful content from small and independent sites, Google added.

The last core update was the March 2024 core update, any many sites are still waiting since September 2023 to see helpful content recoveries.

The first core update of 2024 finished rolling out on April 19 – this was a pretty big one but it overlapped with other big changes leading to a 45% reduction in unhelpful content.

Ranking volatility hit on Friday and Saturday, with limited reversals on Monday after a storm of manual actions last Thursday.