Today has seen tools and industry discussions take a sharp turn, indicating that we are now experiencing a new Google Algorithm update.
Traffic and rankings are in flux again, and this time is a little odd as we usually see the first signs of an update during the middle of the week, continuing until hitting its peak on Friday.
Today, however, we have a massive update occurring that is almost like what happened last Friday. Larger than most, but not as big.
Forum chatter on WebmasterWorld.com includes the following:
Google Analytics having a little freakout for anybody else?
Yesterday and today high traffic. it seems that this latest update has finally benefited me. It is too early to celebrate. Adsense with high conversion, in other words, quality traffic.
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@renatovieira It seems that your site and mine always rise and fall around the same time. I had a big surge yesterday and today is also up, but perhaps not as much. Yesterday a lot of the traffic increase was classified as “direct”. USA still lagging behind UK, AU, and EU traffic, but a definite increase. My ranking also increased several days in a row, instead of the perpetual up/down. The problem is, I have still lost most of the high volume terms that I had in January, so recovering a few low volume terms doesn’t make that much of a difference. Also, we’ll see if it lasts.
My impressions are up and so is my ranking, pretty much like those that said they are recovering. I am on the same boat. I am still nowhere to close to pre-December core update’s mayhem but it is on the right path, hope this continues.
Regarding https insufficient coverage, I fixed it, it is not a bug. I have it in green now. Don’t expect google to fix it but who knows.
I am not using adsense but those that do, if the issue with core web vitals is the js script, did you explore serverless scripting or cloudflare workers (it’s the same, different terms by different CDN brands)? It’s basically js scripts that load at the edge of your CDN. I have no idea if it will fix it, anyone tried it?
@ichthyous – You’re right. Our graphs are very similar, and it is strange to be in totally different niches. Anyway, we can only wait 😐
Saw a slight Discover uptick yesterday – importantly, for the first time since whatever happened in early March, relevant (new) content surfaced. Will keep expectations in check, however, as this might be fleeting.
Has anyone else who has been nuked on the feed seen similar over the last 24 hours?
Edit: I hasten to add that my personal feed is still wildly unreliable and was showing as empty on a few occasions so far today.
My crawl rate suddenly dropped from 20K a day to 1700 in the last two days. Is this normal? Discovery is fine, Refresh is dramatically down.
Same here. Might just be something general and not related to your site in particular.
My crawl rate has been consistently low since December core update. It is slightly higher now but still low. Maybe they tightened the crawl budget.
What’s up with This Google Algorithm Update?
As usual, this update is not confirmed. All we can do is wait for Google to confirm (or not) and see how this affects our sites overall.
The latest update appears to be pretty big, at least. Not as big as Friday’s. But still larger than normal.
We will continue to keep you updated on all the latest developments as they come in.
