Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Today - May 8th

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Barry Schwartz / Executive Editor

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:

Semrush:

SimilarWeb (this is wild, maybe a bug?):

Advanced Web Rankings:

Sistrix:

Wiredboard's Aggregator of Tools - this report shows the aggregate of the tools above and plots them on one chart:

Wincher:

Zutrix:

Accuranker:

Mangools (looks broken):

Mozcast:

Data For SEO:

Algoroo:

SERPstat:

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.

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