I am seeing an increase in chatter amongst the SEO industry around a possible Google search ranking algorithm update around Friday, May 7th and then again on Sunday, May 9th. Even some of the tools are showing the changes as well. But it doesn’t seem to be a massive update, like some previous Google updates.
The chatter started to spiked up on May 7th. Then it died down and spiked back up on May 9th. Here is some of the chatter from WebmasterWorld:
Then on May 9th:
Here are some of the charts from the tool providers:
The other tools are more quiet on those days – which is interesting.
Did you notice changes in your organic Google traffic around May 7th and May 9th?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
