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I Just Lost a Client to Google’s Spam Update 2024
Google’s March 2024 spam cleanup is already hitting hard.
I hadn’t checked in with one of my biggest clients for content writing work for a couple of days.
When I tried to log in this morning, I was shocked to find that I’d been locked out of their messaging app and WordPress site.
Had I been fired without a word about it? What was going on here?
Thankfully, the company had sent an email to all of its writers and staff.
And it was a shocker.
We were all temporarily let go until further notice. Effective immediately.
But it wasn’t their company making the decision.
It was because Google had just designated their websites as spam.
And, financially speaking, essentially wiped them off the map overnight.
What is the Google Spam Update of March 2024?
If I understand this correctly, Google does occasional sweeps for spam sites in order to knock them down in the search engine rankings.
Google defines spam sites as those that don’t follow their spam policies.
