Google said the next Google core update may be released “in the coming weeks.” Google does not yet have a date for when that core update will start to roll out because Google does not know until the core update is tested, evaluated and approved to be incorporated into Google Search – and that has not happened yet.
What Google said. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted on the Search Engine Roundtable, saying:
Previous core updates.The last core update we had was the largest core update, according to Google, and was named theMarch 2024 core update, which started on March 5, 2024 and completed 45 days later on April 19, 2024.
Here’s a timeline and our coverage of recent core updates:
The March 2024 core update was on March 5th and ended on April 19.
TheNovember 2023 core updatewas on November 2nd and ended onNovember 28.
TheOctober 2023 core updatewas on October 5th and ended onOctober 19
TheAugust 2023 core updatewas on August 22nd and ended onSeptember 7.
TheMarch 2023 core updatewas on March 15th andended on March 28th.
TheSeptember 2022 broad core updatewasless impactfulthan previous core updates and finished onSept. 26.
TheMay 2022 broad core updatewas asignificant and fastupdate.
TheJune 2021 core update,which wasslow to roll out but a big one.
Other updates. We did recently have a spam update, theJune 2024 spam updatethat started on June 20, 2024 and took 7 days to finish rolling out, completing on June 27, 2024.
But since then, we had no additional confirmed updates. However, we had lots of unconfirmed updates.
Why we care. Many sites are hoping, and have been hoping, to see improvements with the last core update ever since theSeptember 2023 helpful content update rolled out. Most, if not all, of those sites that were hit in September did not see recoveries. They were hoping to see recoveries with the March 2024 core upset, but did not.
So they are hopeful to see recoveries with the next upcoming core update. Will that happen is yet to be determined.
