This past Friday, March 4, 2022, I noticed that the chatter within the SEO community started to heat up and then the day later, the automated search engine tracking tools started to show volatility. There may have been a Google search ranking algorithm update on March 4th.
Let me start by saying it is likely unrelated to the rollout of the page experience update for desktop which started on February 22nd and ended 9-days later on March 3rd. We also saw an unconfirmed update on February 24th and since then, it has been pretty quiet and stable.
But like I said, I saw a spike in SEO chatter on Friday, which was supported by the tracking tools.
SEO Chatter
Here is some of the chatter I found in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread related to a possible, but yet, unconfirmed, update on March 4th:
Tracking Tools
Virtually all the tracking tools showed a pretty big swing up in volatility on March 4th. Here are screenshots from all the tools.
So it seems like there was a disturbance on Friday, March 4th, in the Google search results.
Did any of you notice it?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
