The March core update finished propagating across Google’s global infrastructure at 6:12 AM Pacific Time on April 8, according to the company’s Search Status Dashboard. This concluded a twelve-day rollout that began March 27 at 2:00 AM PT, giving web publishers and SEO professionals their first clear view of post-update performance. This broad ranking system…
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is updating its look at the risk and defensive landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), reflecting the fast adoption of the technology and the security issues that adoption poses. The OWASP Foundation published expanded security recommendations for companies adopting AI systems, splitting its tracking of solutions into two groups…
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how Google ranks content, how its crawlers handle page size, and where AI referral traffic is heading. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Rolls Out The March 2026 Core Update Google began rolling out the March core update this week. This is the first broad…
Select Language: The March 2026 core update from Google has been officially announced on a Friday morning around 5:14 a.m. ET, with an expected rollout period of up to two weeks. According to Digital Phablet, this update is a routine adjustment aimed at enhancing the visibility of relevant and satisfying content across diverse websites. This…
Google officially announced the rollout of the March 2026 core update early Friday morning at around 5:14 ET. This core update is expected to take up to 2 weeks to roll out. Google said this “is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites.” This is…
Google has started rolling out the March 2026 core update, according to a notice on the Google Search Status Dashboard. The company says the update began at 2:00 a.m. PT on March 27 and may take up to two weeks to finish. Today we released the March 2026 core update. We’ll update our ranking release…
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how your headlines appear in Search, how spam enforcement played out, and how AI content gets labeled. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Tests AI-Generated Headline Rewrites In Search Google confirmed that it’s testing AI-generated headline rewrites in traditional search results. The test uses language…
Google’s March 2026 Spam Update was welcomed by many in the SEO community who were hoping for relief from listicles, AI content rewriters, and Google’s own AI Overviews that “rehash other people’s content.” The update unexpectedly finished in less than twenty-four hours, with a collective shrug and a yawn. Yet despite the underwhelming nature of…
Google has released the March 2026 spam update on March 24, 2026 at around 3:20 pm ET. This update applies globally and to all languages and will take a few days (not weeks) to complete. And completed at 10:40 am ET today, March 25th. Google wrote on LinkedIn, “Today we released the March 2026 spam…
Google started rolling out the March 2026 spam update today, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard. The update is global and in all languages, with a rollout that may take a few days. What’s New The Search Status Dashboard listed the update as an incident affecting ranking at 12:00 PM PT on March 24,…
