Google Search ranking bug is now resolved

Google has fixed the ongoing search ranking bug that kicked off around the same time as the release of the August 2024 core update. Google wrote, “We fixed the issue with ranking. There will be no more updates.”

Here is the timeline of this issue:

Google initially wrote, “There’s an ongoing issue with ranking in Google Search that’s affecting a large number of search results. We’ve identified the root cause and this issue is unrelated to the ongoing core update rollout.