Will the 2024 May Google Update Hit as Hard as March?

[TriggerDon]

There's a possibility that penalties from Google in the upcoming months could be as severe as those seen in March. source: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-site-reputation-abuse-spam-37231.html

The upcoming site reputation abuse policy will be part of a broader spam update, meaning more manual and algorithmic penalties may be enforced.

Eric Lancheres' latest report on the Google March 2024 Core Update is exceptionally thorough. source: https://on-page.ai/pages/google-march-2024-core-update/

It delves into official statements regarding the update, insights from Google Search Liaison and engineers, as well as a plethora of statistics, charts, and figures that provide valuable insights.

The report offers practical observations, such as the trend of short-form content outranking long-form content.

• AI-generated content remains unaffected and maintains its previous ranking performance.
• Specific mentions of expertise on pages appear unnecessary.
• Depending solely on Google traffic may render even high-quality articles insufficient.
• Affiliate sites experience the most significant impact, while local sites show minimal or negligible effects.
• E-commerce platforms report no substantial changes in ranking.
• Resource sites show no noticeable impact from the update.
• Websites with substantial social media followings see positive outcomes post-update.
• The presence of links, both internal and external, does not correlate with a site's susceptibility to the update's effects.
• Once a website gains Google's trust, entity density emerges as a primary ranking criterion.

 

[awesomewebsites]

They will punish as much sites as possible to make them switch to Google ads.

 

[Adelina_BisonClick]

Google became strict, causing most people to turn to Bing, and now bing has become strict as well; where should people turn to next?

 

[TriggerDon]

Google became strict, causing most people to turn to Bing, and now bing has become strict as well; where should people turn to next?

From my experience, it seems like Bing is much easier & quicker to rank compared to Google.

 

[Adelina_BisonClick]

From my experience, it seems like Bing is much easier & quicker to rank compared to Google.

It was like this 20 days ago, now bing has followed google's bad example and white hat campaigns are being blocked just as randomly.

 

[TriggerDon]

It was like this 20 days ago, now bing has followed google's bad example and white hat campaigns are being blocked just as randomly.

Wow, I just checked and found that my ranking in fact has dropped! However, Bing is still doing the weird thing where it shows 2-3 listing from the same domain on 1 page of serps

 

[Emisesary]

Ofcourse, somehow all the updates which are yet to come will definitely hit the websites no matter what.

 

[praetserge]

From my experience, it seems like Bing is much easier & quicker to rank compared to Google.

Not for me... I could never rank well on bing.
I find bing very weird to say the least. And they come up with some crappy stupid warnings nobody can understand.

 

[medialounge]

If Google can be more soft by disclosing the specifics of its updates, ranking would be more easy.

 

[Alf85]

From my experience, it seems like Bing is much easier & quicker to rank compared to Google.

How to rank in Bing?

 

[carvalos]

March update was awful for me :-(

 

[Mister Digital]

Google is committed to making it harder to 'cheat' - Removing all short cuts to success is their objective

 

[carvalos]

Google is committed to making it harder to 'cheat' - Removing all short cuts to success is their objective

I wonder if this includes Ai?

 

[HenryObi]

There's a possibility that penalties from Google in the upcoming months could be as severe as those seen in March. source: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-site-reputation-abuse-spam-37231.html

The upcoming site reputation abuse policy will be part of a broader spam update, meaning more manual and algorithmic penalties may be enforced.

Eric Lancheres' latest report on the Google March 2024 Core Update is exceptionally thorough. source: https://on-page.ai/pages/google-march-2024-core-update/

It delves into official statements regarding the update, insights from Google Search Liaison and engineers, as well as a plethora of statistics, charts, and figures that provide valuable insights.

The report offers practical observations, such as the trend of short-form content outranking long-form content.

• AI-generated content remains unaffected and maintains its previous ranking performance.
• Specific mentions of expertise on pages appear unnecessary.
• Depending solely on Google traffic may render even high-quality articles insufficient.
• Affiliate sites experience the most significant impact, while local sites show minimal or negligible effects.
• E-commerce platforms report no substantial changes in ranking.
• Resource sites show no noticeable impact from the update.
• Websites with substantial social media followings see positive outcomes post-update.
• The presence of links, both internal and external, does not correlate with a site's susceptibility to the update's effects.
• Once a website gains Google's trust, entity density emerges as a primary ranking criterion.

These I no longer care about Google updates. Diversify your traffic sources. If you don't get by the current update, the next one is coming. So, to me it longer matters.

 

[Turbo B.]

May update? March update still rolling out.
https://status.search.google.com/products/rGHU1u87FJnkP6W2GwMi/history

 

[ofuture]

Google is really fighting with AI spam to protect its indexing budget.

April Core update is going on: https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1782031896764960902

We actually drank AI poison by ourselves and blew up our own business opportunities.

 

[Matheus Moreira]

Imagine parasites getting manual penalties because of user generated spam... uohh... that would be bonkers.

 

[GeeLark AI]

google: big losses = big update