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John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

The only thing they will listen to is if it made them more money, anything else is a waste of time.

Comment ID #6840853734 02/21/2026 10:51 am

Chris Mitchell commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

My Google discover traffic is literally dead. Since the start of the year and now into Feb with this 'Discover Update'. Worst start to a year since 2020. Anyone else having this nightmare? I own a UK local news site.

Comment ID #6840809663 02/21/2026 08:50 am

Helga commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Sir, Google sounds like my hemorrhoids.

Comment ID #6840807461 02/21/2026 08:43 am

Andrew Pace commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Yes, and I've complained for years to our Google reps about this.

Comment ID #6840791803 02/21/2026 07:48 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

it's always heated but never in a good way

Comment ID #6840787142 02/21/2026 07:29 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Commercial or Publisher, I mean you review cars or sell/repair etc? Just nosey...

Comment ID #6840776110 02/21/2026 06:39 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Interesting, so basically my words that have been scraped are not copyrightable and can be used by these scrapers at free will, presenting my words and not giving me payment (so that's ok?). Plepexity uses my words for first position followed by my competitors words and does not pay us.... so Google are saying in this lawsuit I don't have copyright over my words but they have copyright over results that contain my words... My words are also personal information and experiences...not something a fact book can make up.

Comment ID #6840766437 02/21/2026 05:49 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

So detached from reality in his ivory castle, looking down on us.

Comment ID #6840764258 02/21/2026 05:36 am

JMH commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Anyone else see turmoil across every channel when there is movement in organic search? For us the paid channels and everything just seems to come to a standstill. And it nearly always coincides with organic search movement. Over the last few days we’ve been bouncing around from position 3 to page 2, but our Google paid search channels have also come to a stop and are not converting.

Comment ID #6840743989 02/21/2026 03:32 am

racefan01 commented on Google Discourages Force Indexing Your Pages To Search

A stupid algorithm broke the indexing on my news site. It takes 3 to 8 hours for a news item to appear in search results. If you don't submit your news for indexing to Search Console, there's no point in having a news site. And idiotic Google doesn't try to fix this problem on many websites.

Comment ID #6840737563 02/21/2026 02:46 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

It all boils down to whether Serpapi is bypassing its anti-scraping technology rather than scraping. <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/21/serpapi_google_scraping_lawsuit/">https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/21/serpapi_google_scraping_lawsuit/</a>

Comment ID #6840735991 02/21/2026 02:34 am

Goo commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Anyone in search console has indexing history only from 15.12.2025? Got a lot of 403 when searching. E-com Automotive -60% sales in FR last 2 days. Total madness

Comment ID #6840734677 02/21/2026 02:24 am

Zka77 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Aaaand custom search api is DEAD, at least for me it's #403 forbidden. Thansk google! "code": 403, "message": "This project does not have the access to Custom Search JSON API."

Comment ID #6840732938 02/21/2026 02:08 am

Helga commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Oh dear. We know the help Mr. Mueller would provide in this case. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f77dcd885574de1076e3abdce5d5c60e6468a82c3d06c767b8d0596286a3a907.jpg

Comment ID #6840722754 02/21/2026 12:43 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Saw a story about Google suing SerpApi for scraping their results and SerpApi's defense is it does the same as Google (scrape and gut the web) but on a much smaller scale. This short news story might be paywalled for some, but might be viewable using one of those unblocker sites. <b>Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web</b> - <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/882300/serpapi-google-lawsuit-web-scraper-motion-to-dismiss">https://www.theverge.com/tech/882300/serpapi-google-lawsuit-web-scraper-motion-to-dismiss</a> <blockquote>SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is fighting back against Google’s copyright lawsuit that accuses it of vacuuming up search results “at an astonishing scale.” In a motion to dismiss filed on Friday, SerpApi argues that Google doesn’t hold a copyright on its search results, alleging that the engine is built “on the backs of others who posted ‘the world’s information.’”</blockquote>

Comment ID #6840636437 02/20/2026 06:28 pm

Mark Ting commented on Google Discourages Force Indexing Your Pages To Search

Yeah, OK, Mueller. If I don't manually submit a recently changed or new URL to index BEFORE I mess with the GBP profile, the profile gets suspended because of the changes. Submit to index before touching the GBP (typically the time to index is less than 10 minutes), edit GBP and hardly EVER have a problem making the necessary changes to an existing location. (Unfortunately, with our websites' foldered CMS, urls change a lot once you get a few folders deep.)

Comment ID #6840550104 02/20/2026 02:58 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

You hurt Sam's feelings, you owe @disqus_tCRyPV6vXh:disqus 100,000 unique visitors, hehe

Comment ID #6840506195 02/20/2026 01:29 pm

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Lol,. I'm wrong hahaah.. it was as a while back but for sure was a regualr poster... ,my apologies lol

Comment ID #6840500517 02/20/2026 01:18 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Don't accuse me of such things lol

Comment ID #6840491452 02/20/2026 01:00 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

I think you're mistaking for someone else, Sam has hinted s/he site has been around for a couple of decades pre-AI.

Comment ID #6840464908 02/20/2026 12:09 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Oh hell :D Never gonna be able to watch that film again, thanks @cobra_kai__never_dies:disqus hahahahah Serves me right for not being explicit...

Comment ID #6840461231 02/20/2026 12:01 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

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Comment ID #6840458544 02/20/2026 11:56 am

SEOwhat commented on Google Discourages Force Indexing Your Pages To Search

If it is an issue, then remove the feature. If the feature still stands, then it is not an issue. It is probably just slowing something down on their end. I no longer have the faith I once had in Google, so trusting anything JM says comes with heavy internal debate.

Comment ID #6840444845 02/20/2026 11:31 am

UncleKrusty commented on Google Discourages Force Indexing Your Pages To Search

<blockquote>In 2020, Google said sites that need to request manual indexing may have quality issues.</blockquote>It's 2026 now and AI bot scraping is extreme. Maybe these sites trying to force indexing are just trying to get Google to see their pages first, on their sites, before dozens of scraped versions pop up elsewhere? Whether a site is big or small, content theft is a major problem publishers are dealing with which can contribute to indexing issues if Google indexes the scraped versions first.

Comment ID #6840403564 02/20/2026 10:31 am

BushyTop commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

We've just randomly lost a load of positions this morning. Automotive, UK

Comment ID #6840347221 02/20/2026 08:12 am

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

If i remember correctly you posted your site before and it looked like pure ai slop.. page after page with thousands of words. igaming right? stopped working? or am i confused with soemoene else?

Comment ID #6840344165 02/20/2026 08:03 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Exactly this..

Comment ID #6840341168 02/20/2026 07:54 am

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Keep in mind they’ve lost 90% of their traffic. I’m not sure how anyone else would manage there but a 90% traffic loss would very quickly see me in the negative every month, 10% of my income won’t cover fixed costs I can’t get out of.

Comment ID #6840320588 02/20/2026 06:43 am

Jantje commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

But you still have 10.000 visitors a day... That must bring in some cash?

Comment ID #6840305572 02/20/2026 06:22 am

Rowan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

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Comment ID #6840273500 02/20/2026 03:53 am

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