Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On March 12 (Florida 2)

Mar 13, 2019 - 8:56 am 127 by
Filed Under Google Updates

Google Florida2 Update

I am seeing plenty of signs from the SEO community, the tracking tools and so on that there was and is a Google algorithm update going on right now. It started on March 12th, yesterday and is continuing on today. It is early on, this is not confirmed by Google, but I am seeing plenty of chatter and signals of an update.

Update: This is now confirmed by Google:

Danny Sullivan confirmed it started yesterday, March 12th:

The last update we reported on was also unconfirmed and was on March 1st, before that February 27th and February 22nd.

The ongoing WebmasterWorld forums have these comments from SEOs:

I mean today. The last 5 hours. I think google made huge adjustments in the medicine sector.

People are seeing changes?

Yes, big flux going on here in USA. Should be interesting to see what Google does for ecommerce. The last update was horrible. Google can't take away anymore converting traffic because it's all gone. Google is dead....

yes, I can see also a improvment arround 10-20% and we made NO changes. For example we have lost our (non commercial) main keyword on EAT in august. Drop from position 1 to 8. This keyword and a few more are now back to position 2.

Now for the tracking tools that track fluctuations in the Google search results.

Mozcast:

click for full size

SERP Metrics:

click for full size

Algoroo:

click for full size

Advanced Web Rankings:

click for full size

RankRanger:

click for full size

Cognitive SEO:

click for full size

SEMRush:

click for full size

SERPwoo:

click for full size

Have you noticed changes in the past 24 hours or so? Please let us know.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Update 1: Google confirmed the update, more details above.

Update 2: Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld named it the Florida 2 update, so we are going to go with the Google 3/12 broad core Florida 2 update.

Update 3: Here are all our current stories as of March 27th on the Google core update from March:

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Follow

Search Video Recaps

 
- YouTube
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 8, 2024

Nov 8, 2024 - 10:00 am
Search Video Recaps

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Election Day Volatility, Helpful Content Update Status, Creators vs SEOs, AI, Ads & More

Nov 8, 2024 - 8:01 am
Google Search Engine Optimization

Google-Selected Canonical Showing Third-Party's Domain Name

Nov 8, 2024 - 7:51 am
Google Ads

Google Local Service Ads App To Stop Working In Two Months

Nov 8, 2024 - 7:41 am
Google

Google Continuous Conversational Search In Google App

Nov 8, 2024 - 7:31 am
Search Engine Optimization

Google & Bing In Dublin For IETF Event To Improve Crawling & AI Controls

Nov 8, 2024 - 7:21 am
Previous Story: Google Testing New Simple Black Ad Label