Over the weekend, maybe started late Friday, August 16th, more noticeable on Saturday, August 17th, there may have been a rollout of another Google search ranking algorithm. It is 100% not as big as the past ones we have been covering recently but there is some chatter and some of the tools showed spikes in fluctuations this weekend.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some chatter, but again, it is not insane chatter but 100% more chatter than a normal day. Here is some of that chatter – again, starting mostly around August 17th
The funny thing is, this guy “Bill Lambert” will from time to time post in the comments area telling us before an update that an update will be rolling out. He did so here on Monday, August 12th he wrote “We just had an all hands on deck meeting – Back to School update rolling out in the 24-48 hours.” Well, August 16th, which was more than 48 hours after that post, something started rolling out. 🙂
Anyway, here are charts from the tools:
So it does look like something happened – did you notice changes in your rankings and traffic from Google organic search since around this weekend?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
