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The article discusses ongoing and significant volatility in Google search rankings following the June 2025 core update, with persistent fluctuations and traffic drops observed over several weeks, causing concern within the SEO community and noticeable impacts on website traffic and rankings.
Google has begun rolling out its June 2025 core update, which may take up to three weeks to complete, potentially causing fluctuations in search rankings. Website owners and SEOs are advised to monitor ranking changes, traffic patterns, and search console insights, while avoiding reactive adjustments during the rollout. The update aims to improve the relevance and quality of search results across all industries.
Google has begun rolling out its June 2025 core update, which may take up to three weeks to complete. Core updates can significantly impact search rankings, but Google advises creators to focus on producing helpful, people-first content rather than trying to manipulate rankings. The update follows the March 2025 core update and is part of Google's regular schedule of algorithm improvements.
The Google November 2024 core update, which began rolling out on November 11, has intensified over the weekend, affecting a wider range of websites. The update, expected to take two weeks to fully implement, has led to significant fluctuations in web traffic and rankings, with some sites experiencing substantial gains while others face severe losses. SEO tools and community discussions indicate increased volatility, with many webmasters reporting drastic changes in traffic and revenue.
Google has announced the rollout of its March 2024 core update, which will take up to a month to fully implement and aims to reduce unhelpful, low-quality, and unoriginal content in search results by 40%. The update includes changes to multiple core systems and incorporates the helpful content system. Google expects more ranking fluctuations than with previous core updates and advises creators to focus on creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. The update also includes new spam policies and is anticipated to impact all regions and languages globally.
Google's March 2023 Broad Core Update, which targets all types of content, has completed its rollout after 13 days. The update impacted search rankings globally and rewarded great web pages without imposing penalties. While there was some volatility and chatter, the impact was fast and widespread. Google will periodically refresh the algorithm, but may not communicate those updates in the future. SEO chatter suggests that some websites were hit hard, while others saw a reversal of fortunes. This is the latest in a series of core updates that Google has rolled out over the past few years.
Google has added a new section called "Ranking" to its Search Status Dashboard, which will display confirmed Google ranking updates. The new section will unify the ranking updates page with Google's updates page and show the active March 2023 core update, along with history up to 2020. The Ranking section joins the existing sections of crawling, indexing, and serving on the dashboard.