Update: Google confirmed there was a core update on Monday, more details at the bottom of our Friday post.

There may be a Google search and ranking algorithm update starting off this morning. I received a couple of notifications via email and some on social media and the chatter in the ongoing WebmasterWorld forums is starting to heat up a bit. Plus some of the automated tracking tools are beginning to show signs of an algorithm update.

Go check your live traffic from Google, see if it is up or down a bit. Check your real time ranking and see if that is up or down a bit. There seems to be a shuffle starting about now. It might be just a brief hiccup for the past 12 hours or so but it might be something big about to happen.

Here are some of the recent comments from the WebmasterWorld thread:

I am not seeing many complaints or cheers yet in the other forums, be it black hat, white hat or novice forums. Again, I think it might be too early.

Here are some of the tracking tool’s charts:

SEMRush:

RankRanger:

Accuranker:

SERPMetrics:

Advanced Web Rankings:

Mozcast:

Are you noticing anything brewing on your site yet with Google organic traffic? Let us know in the comments or join the thread.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.