Many of the third-party tracking tools, not all, but many, are showing some heated volatility this morning around Google Search's ranking positions. I am also seeing some early chatter within the SEO industry about movement in their rankings. It is possible that there may have been an unconfirmed Google update in the past 24-hours or so.
As a reminder, the March 2026 core update started on March 27, 2026 and completed April 8, 2026.
It is unclear when we will have another official Google update. Google I/O is coming in less than two weeks, not that Google does much around search algorithm updates for I/O. But hey, you never know.
Google Tracking Tools
Here are what the tools are showing:
SimilarWeb (this is wild, maybe a bug?):
Wiredboard's Aggregator of Tools - this report shows the aggregate of the tools above and plots them on one chart:
Mangools (looks broken):
SEO Chatter
There is some limited chatter on this site and some on WebmasterWorld - please let us know if you are seeing anything:
UK is still extremely shaky (and has been over the last 3-4 days) - a lot of spam and irrelevant sites coming up in both my tracked KWs and personal searches. Had to search via ChatGPT a few times to find what I wanted.
Agree.. seeing very similar patterns
So what are you all seeing over the past day or so?
I will say, in the past 24-hours my traffic has been super weird in a negative way...
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
