Yesterday at around 3:50pm ET Google said the new Google May 2020 Core Update is now rolling out. Google said on Twitter “we are releasing a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year.” “It is called the May 2020 Core Update,” Google added. Google also said “it will typically take about one to two weeks to fully roll out.” This is big enough of a Google Algorithm Update for Google to announce it. The last time Google announced a search algorithm update was the January core update, which was big.
Here are the tweets announcing it:
Googlers really did not say much outside of this. I tried to get Gary Illyes from Google to renamed it or give it a pet name but he wouldn’t budge.
Previously there was a January core update and before that there was a September 2019 update, which was slow to roll out and wasn’t a shockingly upsetting one.
It is early on but we are seeing third-party signs, outside of the Google announcement, of this happening. I should note, we have seen many unconfirmed Google updates between now and the January core update.
First, let’s start with the SEO community chatter from the various forums. Again, it is early, so I will be tracking it over the next few days and weeks and report back when I see more to share.
Here are the tools; some are showing changes and many are not.
So this is the early community chatter and the early reports from the third-party tool providers.
The big check is now for the SEOs to dig in and check their analytics over the next couple of days to see the true impact. I’ll be watching, share your data with me on Twitter please.
Side note: Google decided not to delay the core update after some speculation that Google might delay it or postpone it over the virus.
Forum discussion at Twitter, WebmasterWorld, Black Hat World and Local Search Forums.
Update: Here is a story on some examples of sites hit by this update.
