It was a heated weekend, the Google Search ranking volatility was pretty heated and there was a lot of chatter within the SEO industry. Not all the tools are showing big swings but many are. And everyone is asking, what happened with Google confirming core updates - is that over?
All this volatility is going on while we have huge delays with Search Console reporting for the past couple of weeks.
As a reminder, the last time we reported on Google ranking volatility was December 3rd and 4th. Then we covered one right before Thanksgiving and that one was a very big one. Then before that was November 20th and then November 12th and then before that with what I called the Movember update around November 8th and then the Halloween update and then between October 15th to 17th and then on October 7/8th.
Again, it doesn't seem like Google is in any mood to confirm core updates anymore. The more core update, more often did not happen this year.
SEO Chatter
Here is some of the more recent chatter on this site and on WebmasterWorld:
Further drop in traffic from Google today. Other SEs are really taking share in my different analytics tools. Too much if you look at the marketshare of SEs in general. Really going downhill overall even further, unbelievable.
Down to 25%.Amazon sales up another 80%.
Something's happened ... Like many others I see all sorts of email garbage every day BUT this weekend Saturday had 2, Sunday 0 and so far after 11 hours, Monday 2.Anyone else?
It is a total mess today, again. Downhill still.
Good morning, Google. The weekend is over, time to continue destroying websites. There were ghostly signs of recovery for two days, but today everything collapsed again.
Google Tracking Tools
Here are what the tools are showing right now:
Wiredboard's Aggregator of Tools - this report shows the aggregate of the tools above and plots them on one chart:
What are you all seeing?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
