{"id":22464,"date":"2024-03-07T15:31:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=22464"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:32:00","slug":"most-believe-that-googles-march-spam-and-core-updates-will-not-reduce-low-quality-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=22464","title":{"rendered":"Most believe that Google&#8217;s March spam and core updates will not reduce low-quality search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>I ran a poll asking my X\/Twitter followers if they think the new Google March core and spam updates will reduce useless content not showing up in search results by 40%.  About 80% of the 1,385 votes said no, they don&#8217;t think it will reduce low-quality, unhelpful content that appears in Google search results.<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/google-search-update-march-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&#8220;Based on our assessments, we expect the combination of this update and our previous efforts to collectively reduce low-quality, unoriginal content in search results by 40%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So will this happen?  Google thinks so, but SEOs don&#8217;t think it will happen.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the embedded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/status\/1765103949097390383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter poll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Do you think Google&#8217;s new March spam and core updates will reduce useless content that doesn&#8217;t show up in search results by 40%?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/status\/1765103949097390383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For my pie chart lovers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-core-update-work-pie-chart-1709755060.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-core-update-work-pie-chart-1709755060.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Pie chart of Google Core Update work\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, Google seems confident it will happen and I guess we can look back in 3-4 weeks and see if those Google updates really did what they promised?<\/p>\n<p>Discussion in the forum a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/status\/1765103949097390383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-march-core-spam-updates-poll-37011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran a poll asking my X\/Twitter followers if they think the new Google March core and spam updates will reduce useless content not showing up in search results by 40%. About 80% of the 1,385 votes said no, they don&#8217;t think it will reduce low-quality, unhelpful content that appears in Google search results. Google said&#8220;Based on our assessments, we expect the combination of this update and our previous efforts to collectively reduce low-quality, unoriginal&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22466,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464\/revisions\/22466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}