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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Chatter

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I am seeing a significant increase in chatter from within the SEO community around a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update. While most of the tracking tools have calmed, except for Semrush and Mozcast, I am seeing a big spike in SEO chatter yesterday and into today.

We all know how intense and volatile the Google search results and Google rankings have been over the past few months. But I have not seen the chatter at this level in a while. And some of the tools showing more calmer weather is throwing me off a bit.

Now, while we are all expecting a confirmed update soon, right now, we have not received one – yet.

We’ve had very heated volatility since the last confirmed update, which was the April 2023 reviews update. The last core update was the March 2023 core update. So we are due some updates, and many suspect we will see the helpful content update, which we didn’t have since the December 2022 helpful content update.

Just to catch you up, we last reported about an unconfirmed Google update this weekend and then again July 12th/13th, then around July 6th or 8th and then on June 28th and 29th and then again June 23rd then on June 19th we reported about ongoing heated volatility with Google Search. We also reported on an update on June 14th, one around June 14th and ongoing, then June 6th then around May 22/23rd, then around May 17t, then on May 10th and the other around early May.

SEO Chatter

So as I said, the SEO chatter is spiking. When I say “SEO chatter,” I mean the level of SEOs commenting in the forums or online about noticing big ranking changes for their sites and client sites. I am seeing a big spike in that chatter at WebmasterWorld, on social and also in the comments here.

I will quote some of that chatter from the past day or so here:

My traffic seems to be down over the last 12 hours. I am suspicious of a new update.

Anyone else with very low traffic or traffic stopped today?

Slow today, very slow. Finance UK.

Been dead all day, then all of a sudden — at 4pm — it started again. Let’s hope it stays like this; I need to put the leccy on this evening.

We’re back to extremely spammy results in our niche. The sites we’ve seen mid-late last year are starting to appear again.

If it was cooling, it’s heating back up now.

Definitely. Been a tough day traffic wise. Can Google just not put their heads down and sort the issue out and restore the good old days. Is it too much to ask?

Still seeing swings in rankings in the legal space. Some days are good some days are meh. Might just end up were we started at the end of this.

Anyone experiencing a loss in traffic today?

Yeah, it’s been terrible so far today.

Traffic is high for two of my main sites and continues. I am highly suspicious, because someone must be losing, and I’m not sure who it is…

Low traffic levels across my global sites, localised hotel venue doing fine.

Massive drops here starting overnight. It’s the USA traffic that has vanished again, -47% at 11:30am. Traffic to my home page and all of my most competitive landing pages is down up to 81% today. Non-USA traffic is mostly hitting a lot of lower-level pages, aka one hit and out. Is anyone else seeing this today?

I’m seeing a lot of single-page views today at 78.5%, which is way higher than this year’s average of 47.1%.

I notice again my traffic is filtering at 10 clicks per minute. It’s been very similar to what happened this past week. Then came a huge amount of traffic afterwards.

That is, yes, I have a big reduction in traffic today.

Looks like yet another update, traffic is coming back with a hyper-low bounce rate. We see this EVERY time they do something! Obviously, these days that is pretty much weekly.

So that is just a sampling of the chatter from the past day or so… It is a lot, as you can tell.

Google Tracking Tools

Here is what the tracking tools are now showing:

Semrush:

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SERPmetrics:

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RankRanger:

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Advanced Web Rankings:

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Accuranker:

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Mozcast:

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Cognitive SEO:

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Algoroo:

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SERPstat:

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Wincher:

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Some of the tools have yet to update today, so I will come back later and refresh these charts.

What are you all seeing?

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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

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Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.

Here is a screenshot of the Chanukah decorations as they look like on the mobile search results.

Google Hanukkah Decorations 2023

You can see it yourself by searching on Google for [chanukah], [hanukkah], but not yet [חֲנוּכָּה‎] or other spelling variations yet but it should soon. It looks better on mobile than it does on desktop results.

To see the past, the 2023 decorations, 2021 decorations, 2020 Chanukah decorations, 2019 Google holiday decorations, the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and so on.

Happy Chanukah, everyone!

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Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

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Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data.

This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots of this on X – here is one:

G Pay Accepted Google Search

Here are some more screenshots:

Brodie Clark also posted some screenshots after on X:

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I tried to replicate this but I came up short.

This is not the first time Google had similar icons like this in its search results.

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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

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Typically, Google Discover shows content that is less than a day old, but it can show content that is weeks, months, or even years old. However, typically, Google will show more recent content in the Discover feed. Well, that may have changed with the new Google follow feature.

Glenn Gabe, who is a very active Google Discover user, noticed that since the Follow feature rolled out, he has been seeing content that is weeks and months old way more often than before the follow feature rolled out. Glenn wrote on X that “this could also be playing a role. i.e. Google isn’t providing as much recent content, but instead, focusing on providing targeted content based on the topics you are following.”

It makes sense that if you follow a specific topic and if Google Discover only shows the most authoritative types of content, it might be hard for Google to find new content on that topic. So it does make sense that Google may show older content more often for that specific topic you follow.

Here are screenshots Glenn shared:

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Have you noticed this in your Discover feed?

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