What You Should Know About March 2024 Core Update and New Spam Policies

Google's March 2024 Core Update Aims to:

1. Improve the quality of search results
2. Reduce low-quality, unoriginal content
3. Show more useful and relevant content
4. Target clickbait content and spammy practices
5. Preserve the authenticity of a highly reputable website
6. Punish sites that have been creating spam content
7. Implement the “helpful content” system directly into its core ranking system
8. Classify third-party, low-value content as spam
9. Include any method of creating content at scale for the sole purpose of ranking in search

The Update Also Includes:

• Improved quality ranking
• New spam policies
• Penalties for AI content sites
• Faster penalties and inconsistent communication

New Spam Policy:

It is designed to address practices that are negatively impact the quality of Google's search results. Google announced these three new spam policies against bad practices such as expired domain abuse, scaled content abuse, and site reputation abuse.

Here are some ways to check if your website is affected by the March 2024 Google core update:

Search for your website:

Type "site:website.com " to see if your website appears in search results. If your website is removed from search results, or if your rankings are removed, you may be affected.

Check Google Search Console:

Look for spam alerts or lost rankings in the left sidebar, under "Checking Security & Manual Actions"