TLDR

  • Today's HDR Update for 7 March, 2024
  • 1) Google Updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines
  • 2) Google March 2024 Core Update Rolling Out - It's A Big Core Update
  • 3) Google Search turned off some event-rich results
  • 4) Core Web Vitals: Introducing INP (Interaction to Next Paint)

Google's latest updates are shaking up the search landscape in March 2024. With significant changes to its search quality evaluator guidelines and the rollout of a major core update, users are witnessing shifts in search results. Notably, Google has also disabled certain event-rich results and introduced Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as part of its Core Web Vitals initiative. These updates signal Google's ongoing efforts to refine and enhance the search experience for users worldwide.

Google Updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines

Google updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines with details and examples to identify untrustworthy websites.

  • Google has included information on how to assess a website's trustworthiness in its "Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines" update.
  • New traits of unreliable pages and illustrative examples are included in the updated guidelines to assist quality raters in making judgment calls.
  • Search rankings are not directly impacted by quality raters. Their input helps to influence upcoming upgrades.

Google has updated its “Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines,” a comprehensive 170-page document that serves as a framework for quality raters to assess websites effectively.

Source Url: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-updates-search-quality-evaluator-guidelines/510521/

Google March 2024 Core Update Rolling Out - It's A Big Core Update

Due to changes to a few components within the core ranking algorithm, Google stated that the March 2024 core update has now begun to roll out and that it may take up to a month to fully roll out. Added to the core upgrade is Google's Helpful content system.

In addition, Google also released the March 2024 spam updates, with new spam policies. I dig into those spam updates and policy changes in super detail over here.

Source Url: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-march-2024-core-update-37003.html

Google Search turned off some event-rich results

Google says you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance-reported metrics in your performance report.

Google has turned off some event-rich results and changed the way some event-rich results appear in the Google search results. As a result, you may see a drop in impressions and clicks reported in Google Search Console with that specific search appearance filter set to on.

Source Url: https://searchengineland.com/google-search-turned-off-some-event-rich-results-438191

Core Web Vitals: Introducing INP (Interaction to Next Paint)

The proposed Core Web Vital metric Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will take the lieu of First Input Delay (FID) on March 12, 2024. INP uses information from the Event Timing API to evaluate responsiveness. INP tracks all clicks, taps, and any engagements with a page over time, ignoring anomalies, and reports the longest duration. When a page has a low INP, it can usually react fast to the great majority of user interactions. A page with good responsiveness reacts to interactions quickly. The browser provides visual feedback in the next frame that renders when a page reacts to an interaction, indicating that the interaction was successful.

Source Url: https://www.hocalwire.com/blog/core-web-vitals-introducing-inp-interaction-to-next-paint-1296164

That's all folks for the day from the Hocalwire Team. We will get back with more updates tomorrow!!

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