At a point, I really do feel bad for continually reporting Google updates but the Google search results over the past couple weeks have not been all that stable – which I guess is what Google talks about when they say 500 updates per year. But this is different from what SEOs, webmasters and I am use to.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread and the comments I am seeing on this site related to my posts suggest there was an update of some sorts this morning. Some are saying Penguin related, some are saying Panda, and some are saying whatever we saw around January 17th is being reversed.
I am not sure what it is, it is extremely early in the reports but here are some comments from WebmasterWorld:
We just had a Panda refresh on January 22nd, can Google be fixing something or pushing out a new update right now? Honestly, I am afraid to keep asking Google. 🙂
Update: It does seem MOZcast agrees, they are reporting major shifts in Google last night:
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.