{"id":2581,"date":"2019-03-22T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:05:50","slug":"google-march-2019-core-update-consequences-and-steps-to-be-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediasearchgroup.com\/blog\/google-march-2019-core-update-consequences-and-steps-to-be-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"Google March 2019 Core Update: Consequences and Steps to Be Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently updated: February 7th, 2025<\/p>\n

Google has released an algorithm update on the 12th of March this year.  And with it, come to a lot of speculations over the scale of its impact, and what niches and sites are to be most impacted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before we dig deeper into the consequences this latest\nGoogle update imposes, it is important to look at what the update is exactly\nand what the search engine giant, Google has to say about this March update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if this update reverses the previous ones, a Google\nspokesperson said, \u201cWe\u2019re constantly improving our algorithms and build forward\nto improve.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is interesting is that the search engine giant never said\nno to the question:  Does this update reverse the previous updates? Google\nsaid it makes changes with the effort to improve their algorithms. The search\nengine brings algorithm updates every year, and each effort is aimed at making\nimprovement. The way Google quipped, this update seems to solve some of the\nissues they had with the previous core updates.<\/p>\n\n\n

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With all that being said, data shows some of the sites hit by\nthe past updates got improved with this March update. But this is not the case\nwith many sites, and they are still not doing well in the search engine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Google, this is not related to any of the past\npenguin updates. The search engine said, \u201c\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a Penguin update,\nbecause we no longer have those, as we\u2019ve said before<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the core update but not the biggest one. In fact, Google\nsaid \u201cBut it is far from being the biggest update Google has ever done,\u201d\nimplying this update compared to other updates were much larger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, as Google said, \u201cthis is not related to the neural\nmatching updates.  In fact, no neural updates were released at the same\ntime as any of the core updates were.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this March update, as the search engine itself said, is a core algorithm update. And so there are definite repercussions on the websites, including those offering SEO services<\/a><\/strong> and SEO packages<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 How Does March 2019 Core Update Impact Websites?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To measure the impact of the update on rankings, Rank Ranger\nanalyzes the SERP using the following metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n