How I Bounced Back from Google’s March 2024 Core Update: A Quick Case Study

[Muhammad Ayaz]

Before the March 2024 update, my site was drawing millions of visitors monthly. After the update, traffic crashed to just a few thousand. It's brutal.


Instead of panicking, I focused on high-authority backlinks. With my team, we identified solid sites and launched a targeted guest posting campaign.

Within weeks:

• Traffic bounced back
• Rankings improved
• DA/DR shot up

Lesson? When Google hits, don’t sit still — build authority the right way and bounce back stronger.

 

[BalticProxy_Eu]

Nice story. We really have to endure everything, and adapt to any problems being thrown at us. That's the way we can survive in this industry.

 

[kalpana007]

I was expecting a more detailed case study.

 

[ajimix]

short and concise post, sharing what really works

 

[Reddevil007]

Short and sweet

 

[alec5]

Are there any free high-authority backlinks?

 

[GoogleWontRankUs]

I call BS

 

[tazarbm]

I was expecting a more detailed case study.

he's probably trying to up his post count

I call BS

meh, backlinks do salvage sites (or pages, rather), so it's not impossible. But this is hardly a case study

 

[tarunbhardwaj]

Can you provide more detailed explanation?

 

[GoogleWontRankUs]

meh, backlinks do salvage sites (or pages, rather), so it's not impossible. But this is hardly a case study

do or did salvage sites? You guys keep talking about this like it is pre HCU

These days the same 100 sites are at the top across all SERPs, they have millions of backlinks, and it will cost you far more than you want to spend to try to catch up to them

 

[Reddevil007]

I call BS

Is it because Google wont rank your sites

 

[tazarbm]

do or did salvage sites? You guys keep talking about this like it is pre HCU

you're talking like you've personally tested all of the sites in the world and you know for a fact that not a single one of them can be salvaged with backlinks. Even without testing this I still say it's not true

These days the same 100 sites are at the top across all SERPs, they have millions of backlinks, and it will cost you far more than you want to spend to try to catch up to them

I'm not debating the cost of catching up to the big dogs, the discussion was whether backlinks can salvage sites , don't sneakily divert from it

Anyway, I agree with you that backlinks have lost importance in many cases, but they've become obsolete as you're implying