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March 2025 Core Update

Core Update

Updated on:

March 13, 2025

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by Momentic

This is Google's first algorithm update of 2025 - the previous core update (and a spam update) were in December 2024.

Current status of the ranking update

  • Status:

    Rollout complete!

    Rollout in progress!

  • Announced by Google:

    March 13, 2025

  • Update started:

    March 13, 2025

  • Update completed:

    Rollout in progress!

Momentic analysis and first look

Below you'll get tips on what to look for, how to respond on your website, and helpful resources to improve your website's SEO and UX as it relates specifically to this Google update.

This is what Google Search Console posted on LinkedIn when this update was announced:

"This is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites. We also continue our work to surface more content from creators through a series of improvements throughout this year. Some have already happened; additional ones will come later."

Types of websites affected

All websites, but especially websites with content created specifically to rank well in Google Search instead of being genuinely helpful to people.

What to look for

1. Organic traffic trends, especially non-branded (Google Search Console)

2. Ranking flux & search visibility for high intent keywords (Semrush, Ahrefs, or similar)—look for ranking movements (higher or lower) for website content

3. Keep a close eye on your most valuable SERPs—look out for any changes in the content that is being ranked higher or lower than before the update

4. URL indexation trends (Google Search Console)

What to address

1. Check if the speed or E-E-A-T of your URLs could be a cause of traffic drops.

2. Make sure you haven’t deleted any pieces of content which were previously earning a high volume of organic search traffic.

3. Make sure your content that used to get traffic is still indexed.

4. Determine if significant changes have been made to your website structure or semantic HTML.

5. Prune your content to remove (or improve) unhelpful or non-unique pages. Monitor & track changes made to your website.

6. Track the changing relevance (perceived intent) of keywords related to your content.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do about traffic losses after a Core Update.