SEO recap: February 2024

A summary of what actually happened in search during this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site rather than by publication time. Built from our own archive of 551 stories.

1 Stories archived

0 High impact

0 Update-flagged

1 Technical areas

Biggest stories

Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.

Medium Detailed 14 Feb

The Discussion Forums Dominating 10,000 Product Review Search Results

– Updated the top 20 forums table to compare July vs February – Updated Reddit traffic chart for the last two years – Ran all numbers again for July compared to February – Updated the stats for how…

Ranking & Algorithms

What the period was about

Busiest technical areas

Ranking & Algorithms 1

Most active sources

Detailed 1

About these recaps

Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.

The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.