In short, YES!!!
After the March core update, this is the second core update from Google, which is called “Google August 2024 core update.“.
The update started on August 15th, 2024, and finished rolling out on September 3rd, 2024, taking almost 19 days.
Note: This update is designed to improve search results’s quality by showing useful content to people. And it will downgrade content written for search engines.
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Official Announcement on Google August 2024 Core Update Completion
Google officially confirmed the completion of Google August 2024 Core Update on Google Search Status Dashboard and on it’s twitter handle.
This roll-out is now complete.
— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) September 3, 2024
Google said,
Today, we launched our August 2024 core update to Google Search. This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content that feels like it was made just to perform well on Search.
This latest update takes into account the feedback we’ve heard from some creators and others over the past few months.
As always, we aim to connect people with a range of high quality sites, including small or independent sites that are creating useful, original content, when relevant to users’ searches.
This is an area we’ll continue to address in future updates. This update also aims to better capture improvements that sites may have made, so we can continue to show the best of the web.
We’ve also updated our help page about core updates, which includes more in-depth guidance for those who may see changes after an update.
Quick Facts On Google August 2024 Core Update
Important points to know about this update:
Title: Google August 2024 Core Update
Release Date: August 15, 2024
Rollout Duration: It took 19 days to complete.
Targets: It targets all types of content.
Penalty: It is not a penalty; rather, it rewards or promotes outstanding web pages.
Global Update: This is a global update impacting all regions, in all languages.
Impact: In addition to the standard core update work around helpful content, this one also rewards independent and small publishers.
Recover: If this affected you, you should review your content to see if you can improve it using Google’s core update recommendations.
Tracking Tools On August 2024 Core Update:
The third-party tracking tools:
Key Details About This Core Update
- Google Core updates are designed to prioritize content that visitors find genuinely useful.
- These updates focus on addressing content crafted mainly to achieve high search rankings rather than to offer true value to visitors.
- Google mentioned that this update considers recent feedback from content creators and other stakeholders.
- The company reiterates its dedication to providing high-quality content from a variety of sources, including smaller, independent websites.
- The update also aims to better acknowledge improvements made by websites.
Revised Guidance For Webmasters/Website Owners
Along with this algorithm update, the revised core update documentation, highlights, the meaningful content improvements rather than relying on quick fixes.
With these revised guidelines, we can do a self-audit based on Google’s quality guidelines, emphasizing meaningful changes that align with user needs instead of simply deleting underperforming pages.
Further adding to this, Google indicates that even after improvements are implemented, it may take until future core updates to regain lost rankings.
