Google Strikes Back: Spam Doesn't Stand a Chance!
I was going to take a content break, and then Google decided to push out a huge Google core update , telling us that everything in search is changing. So, I spent some time reviewing what Google has said, and I have some predictions about this that I've got to share with you. But here's the deal: it's going down—hopefully not your web traffic, just this big update that started yesterday. So, if you're watching this when I publish it, this update began rolling out yesterday—a core update and a spam update. First of all, let's look at what Google is reporting. They're showing right here for 2024 the March 2024 spam update and core update both starting March 5th. The core update says it could take up to a month to finish rolling out, and the spam update over the next two weeks. But a lot is going on here. This isn't like a lot of core updates where we just have no idea. Google doesn't give us any direction. Google published this blog post that talks a litt