Over the past several days, people have been moaning about ranking and organic search changes in the SEO communities. The most public one is WebmasterWorld, but the overall “chatter,” as I like to call it, has been somewhat slow and limited. I am sure some webmasters and SEOs have seen significant changes in their rankings over the past week – as you all tell me, Google is updating several times a day. But I do not personally believe these are massive or largish algorithmic updates with Google as a whole.
I do feel I should bring awareness to it, as I have been following them for the past five days or so and the chatter, although limited, is still there. So go check your rankings, your organic search referral traffic and dig in.
Here are some of the comments from WebmasterWorld starting on January 23rd, last Tuesday evening and thoughout the next several days:
Some folks are even pointing these changes in traffic to the outbreak in the flu – but that has been happening for the past couple months now.
The tools themselves do show activity, or some of them do…
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
