I am starting to see some early reports from some site owners and SEOs that the gains they may have seen early on with the Google August 2024 core update, is slowly starting to slip away or vanish as you would… Meaning, some are noticing a surge (small relative to pre-helpful content update) increases but now some are seeing that surge slide back down.
Let me be clear, not everyone who saw the surge is seeing this reversal but some are.
It makes me wonder if these may be the reasons for the gains now reversing:
(A) Their gains were a result of the large ranking bug that was fixed four days later?
(B) This is now the second gear of the core update, so we are seeing more volatility.
(C) We don’t know how to read our charts or it was some weird blurp for some of these sites? Meaning, who knows…
(D) Or these sites did some of their own technical SEO issues and blew up or Google released something else completely unrelated to the core update at the same time?
Which is maybe why we cannot access the core update until it is over and fully done rolling out.
So what are some folks seeing?
Mark posted in the comments here that maybe he spoke too soon and shared this chart showing an increase around the 16th and then it dropping down yesterday?
