Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been tracking what I would call mild chatter in the SEO community around a potential Google algorithm ranking update on April 4th. I would categorize this at best as a small update, in terms of what SEOs are at least chatting about.
The WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World threads discussing this are not that active. But there are SEOs who have taken notice. Here are some of what the SEOs are saying:
Plus some people messaged me on Twitter, here are just some of those tweets:
Personally, I do not think this is Google Fred related or any of the animals but what do I know.
Some, not all, of the automated ranking tools, are showing slight upticks in weather patterns with the Google results on or around April 4th:
Mozcast:
SERP Metrics:
Advanced Web Rankings:
AccuRanker:
RankRanger:
SEM Rush:
So something did happen but again, SEOs for the most part didn’t take that much notice.
Were you impacted?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World.
