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Google Search Algorithm Ranking Fluctuations Thursday, December 26th
While it has been calm for the past several days, today is a new day and I am seeing some signs of more volatility and ranking fluctuations as of the past 24 hours or less. Some of the automated tracking tools are picking it up, and I am seeing some renewed chatter in the SEO industry.
Maybe this is a continuation of the delayed helpful content and link spam updates or maybe this is a new Google search ranking update? It is super hard to say. We saw some big turbulence days before Christmas and then things clamed down a lot.
So what are we seeing?
SEO Chatter
Here is some of the renewed chatter in the WebmasterWorld forums:
As in previous years traffic is slowly returning with it already at 33% today with its usual country spread, if it achieves 60% for Weds-Fri that would be normal for me.
I am seeing UK traffic back to average this morn. USA and CA is still abysmally low… down 54% and 76% at noon. Traffic to my home page has been getting lower and lower since the 13th, this morning -70%. Search is still -30% today, direct is -35%. We will see if this slowly recovers this week and 1st week of January…
Position changes for numerous sites!
So i didn’t have time to check my blog’s stats for past ~2 weeks because of chrismas time, but now i’m really shocked. Gaming niche, eastern europe, depending on GA our traffic increased by more than a dozen percent viewers and our visibility in GSC just rocked up. We have many views of reviews and test taht were on ~30-40 position in google. Now they are top10. It’s the first time from last 12 months when our visibility has increased. Not many backlinks, maybe some from wikipedia and not even a single paid. We’re just creating quality content.
I am also seeing some chatter in the comments area here:
How many of you recovered? Seems like we are back on the ride, and it was really “profit update”
We see mixed signs, some crawlers are hyperactive on some of our sites.
I see some changes in the SERPs today in my niche. All over the place.
There is also this?
Italian YMYL site.
Sept 13: big boost
Dec 20: big drop
Dec 26: recover?
Is it possibile HCU and/or link spam update are recalculating starting from an old dataset, so at first we see a drop and now a”recover”, reflecting Sept 13 boost? @Marie_Haynes @dannysullivan @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/pYTxfNgRLL— Matteo Giannone (@matteogiannone) December 28, 2022
Google Search Tracking Tools
Here are what the tools are showing as of this morning, some have not yet updated:
It is a bit early with the volatility right now, but Google Search does seem to be heating up right now… Which is weird since Google said they try to slow these things during the holidays for safety reasons. So maybe it is not what we think it is?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Microsoft Advertising has officially added Copilot to help advertisers using AI. Tuta complained to regulators over its ranking drop with the Google core update. We saw the same person rank in Google Search with multiple entities. Google renames product sites to product websites. Google Search App has a neat screenshot feature. I am offline today, all these stories were pre-written and scheduled, including this newsletter.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
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Copilot Now In Microsoft Advertising Platform
Microsoft announced the general availability of Copilot in the Microsoft Advertising Platform. This means you can now use Copilot (Microsoft’s AI) natural language conversational chat, asset recommendations, and image asset creation in the Microsoft Advertising platform. -
The Same Person With Multiple Entities In Google Search
Last week, Shameem Adhikarath shared an example of an individual that shows up twice as two different entities in Google Search. It is like maybe Google was fed two distinct entities for the same person and now Google is showing both of them, with the same name and same query. -
Tuta Complains To EU Regulators Over Google March 2024 Core Update Ranking Drop
Tuta Mail, a popular encrypted email service, complained to European Union tech regulators that Google dropped its rankings for all sorts of keyword phrases with the Google March 2024 core update. Tuta is upset they no longer rank for [encrypted email] after this update. -
Google Search App “Send A Link To This Page” When You Take A Screenshot
One of my pet peeves is when people send me screenshots of pages they want me to read and do not include the URL to that page. Well, the Google Search app is trying to solve that issue by telling the person who took a screenshot to “Send a link to this page” by clicking a big blue “Share” button. -
Google Renames Product Sites To Product Websites
Google has renamed the Product Sites search filter to Product Websites. These only really show up in the European regions and starting last week, Google renamed “Sites” to “Websites.” -
Slimmer Google Dog Tag
We have seen numerous dog tags for Dooglers, Google dogs, before. But this one looks slimmer than the old dog tags. I found this new photo of a Doogler and you can see the small Google collar tag. -
Programming Note: Offline For Last Days Of Passover
This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the last days of the Passover holiday. The last days of Passover are on Monday and Tuesday, April 29th and 30th. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live.
Other Great Search Threads:
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Industry & Business
- xAI, Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, is closing on $6B in funding and X, his social network, is already one of its shareholders, TechCrunch
- Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia, Reuters
- Google to expand hardware R&D team in Taiwan, Nikkei Asia
- Investors Cheer AI Spending Boom in Big Tech—Just Not at Meta, Wall Street Journal
- Sundar Pichai Celebrates Googleversary, completes 20 years at Google, News9live
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Search Features
Other Search
Feedback:
Have feedback on this daily recap; let me know on Twitter @rustybrick or @seroundtable, on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky and you can follow us on Facebook and on Google News and make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or just contact us the old fashion way.
Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Passover.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 29, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google’s March 2024 core update completed on April 19th, Google just didn’t confirm it until a week later. Google said its spam reporting tool will add site reputation abuse after May 5. Google responded to concerns over the Chrome IP masking and how it will impact advertisers. Google Knowlwdge Panels has translated sections. Apple Business Connect gains actions with links. Google AI is writing some knowledge panels. I am offline today, all these stories were pre-written and scheduled, including this newsletter.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
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Google March 2024 Core Update Finished April 19th (A Week Ago)
The Google March 2024 core update finished a week ago and Google did not tell us until today. It finished officially on April 19, 2024, and took 45 days to roll out after starting on March 5, 2024. Google also said this helped reduce low-quality and unoriginal content in search results by 45%, which is up from their estimate of 40%. -
Google Spam Reporting Tool To Gain Site Reputation Abuse
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said that the search company will add the upcoming site reputation abuse policy to the spam reporting tool when the policy begins to be enforced. So sometime after May 5, 2024, the report spam form will gain a new option to report site reputation abuse. -
Google Responds To Concerns Over Chrome IP Masking
A week ago, Anu Adegbola wrote a fabulous piece on some new privacy changes that may be coming to Google Chrome in the future named Chrome IP masking and how that may impact advertisers. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, responded to those concerns, saying, “Chrome has not made any recent updates to its IP protection proposal.” -
Google Knowledge Panel With Auto-Translated Texts
Google is auto-translating some of the content within the Google Knowledge Panels and blocks. So if you are in a location where you don’t only speak English, Google may show you your local language as an additional block of text in the knowledge panel. -
Apple Business Connect Actions: Add Links To Apple Maps Local Listing
Apple Business Connect now lets you add links to your local listings that show up in Apple Maps. This is under the “actions” section that enables customers to order food, buy tickets, schedule an appointment, and more. -
Google AI Writing Some Search Knowledge Panels
Google has for a long time used AI to write some knowledge panels. But now Google is labeling some of these AI written knowledge panels with “Al overviews are experimental” as a disclaimer. This may show up for both SGE and non-SGE results, I believe. -
Google Maps Pigeon People
I am not sure where this first started but in Japan there is this group of people who dress up as pigeons when the Google Maps street view cameras drive by. -
Programming Note: Offline For Last Days Of Passover
This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the last days of the Passover holiday. The last days of Passover are on Monday and Tuesday, April 29th and 30th. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live.
Other Great Search Threads:
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Search Features
Other Search
Feedback:
Have feedback on this daily recap; let me know on Twitter @rustybrick or @seroundtable, on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky and you can follow us on Facebook and on Google News and make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or just contact us the old fashion way.
Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Passover.
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This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the last days of the Passover holiday. The last days of Passover are on Monday and Tuesday, April 29th and 30th. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live.
I will be completely offline, so any social media posts, tweets, anything coming from this site or my social channels are all scheduled beforehand.
I won’t be able to reply to comments, remove spam or break any stories on those days. I will catch up when I get back online.
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