This morning I am seeing a number of complaints around pages being dropped from Google’s search index. This is coupled with a few of the automated tracking tools showing some ranking turbulence this morning in Google Search.
Just to catch you up, last week we saw some signs of a Google search ranking update on the 23rd. But it turns out, it may have been related to an unconfirmed Google canonical issue. FYI, Google asked you share examples with them so they can investigate.
Well, this morning there has been a number of complaints around Google de-indexing pages. It is super hard to know exactly what is going on without being given access to the details, but there is 100% a spike in complaints around indexing issues with Google as of this morning.
Let’s start with the complaints on Twitter:
John Mueller of Google has replied to some asking for more details but did not confirm any issues:
And more canonical issues:
There are complaints in the SEO forums as well.
A Google Webmaster Help thread wrote:
A Black Hat World thread:
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread:
And like I said, some of the tools are showing spikes and changes in Google Search:
Mozcast (added this at 1pm ET):
I think we can agree that things are a bit unstable now at Google Search?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Twitter.
Update: Finally, after 10 days of complaining, Google has confirmed it:
Update 2: Google has now confirmed this as an indexing issue with mobile-indexing and canonicalization.
