It has been a full nine days since I last reported about a Google Search ranking algorithm update and now I am seeing signs of another one starting yesterday, August 3rd through today, August 4th.
Both the chatter within the SEO industry spiked and we saw some of the third-party Google tracking tools show a spike in volatility yesterday.
Now, while we are all expecting a confirmed update soon, right now, we have not received one – yet.
We’ve had very heated volatility since the last confirmed update, which was the April 2023 reviews update. The last core update was the March 2023 core update. So we are due some updates, and many suspect we will see the helpful content update, which we didn’t have since the December 2022 helpful content update.
Just to catch you up, we last reported about an unconfirmed Google update July 26th, July 17th/18th and then again July 12th/13th, then around July 6th or 8th and then on June 28th and 29th and then again June 23rd then on June 19th we reported about ongoing heated volatility with Google Search. We also reported on an update on June 14th, one around June 14th and ongoing, then June 6th then around May 22/23rd, then around May 17t, then on May 10th and the other around early May.
SEO Chatter
Here is some of the SEO chatter I see both at WebmasterWorld and in the comments area on this site:
So that is some of the chatter.
Google Tracking Tools
Here is what the tracking tools are now showing:
Some of the tools have yet to update today, so I will come back later and refresh these charts.
What are you all seeing?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
