{"id":8456,"date":"2026-05-20T04:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:50:47","slug":"google-i-o-2026-search-ranking-volatility-amp-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=8456","title":{"rendered":"Google I\/O 2026 Search Ranking Volatility & Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Google<\/p>

Today is Google I\/O, where Google announces many of its new features across its products, including Google Search. It is not uncommon to see Google search ranking volatility spike around Google I\/O, and that is exactly what we are seeing today – the morning of Google I\/O.<\/p>

Just to be clear, Google did not announce there was an official Google search ranking update – but we cover all the unconfirmed ones as well, so that is what this is, at least so far.<\/p>

As a reminder, the March 2026 core update started on March 27, 2026 and completed April 8, 2026.<\/p>

Plus, the deindexing trend we wrote about early has not stopped. More and more sites are noticing a drop in indexing, the “Crawled – currently not indexed” is spiking for many.<\/p>

But we did see unconfirmed updates May 13th and 14th, May 8th, April 27th and 28th, April 23rd and so on…<\/p>

The last unconfirmed update kicked off May 13th, as I noted above, but it seemed to last through last Friday. <\/p>

Google Tracking Tools<\/h2>

Here are what the tools are showing:<\/p>

Semrush:<\/p>

\"Semrush\"<\/p>

Advanced Web Rankings:<\/p>

\"Advancedwebranking\"<\/p>

SimilarWeb:<\/p>

\"Similarweb\"<\/p>

Zutrix:<\/p>

\"Zutrix\"<\/p>

Wincher:<\/p>

\"Wincher\"<\/p>

SERPstat:<\/p>

\"Serpstat\"<\/p>

Sistrix:<\/p>

\"Sistrix\"<\/p>

Wiredboard’s Aggregator of Tools – this report shows the aggregate of the tools above and plots them on one chart:<\/p>

\"Wireboard\"<\/p>

Accuranker:<\/p>

\"Accuranker\"<\/p>

Mozcast:<\/p>

\"Mozcast\"<\/p>

Data For SEO:<\/p>

\"Dataforseo\"<\/p>

Algoroo:<\/p>

\"Algoroo\"<\/p>

Mangools (looks broken):<\/p>

\"Mangools\"<\/p>

I wouldn’t be surprised if these tools show the volatility even more tomorrow.<\/p>

SEO Chatter<\/h2>

I am also seeing some early chatter on this site and WebmasterWorld. Here is some of that chatter:<\/p>

So after a big boost, Today the sites that got boosted are back down. I guess some kind of testing is goign on.<\/p><\/blockquote>

My site, completely dead in search, Discover, and Google News, suddenly came back to life in Google Analytics. But not in the way I wanted. Google sent hundreds of Singaporean bots to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Yesterday my global site’s traffic was 33%, today after half my Googleday it’s at 10% … Yep, 10% with none, as in zero, from China, and I always have genuine trade visitors from there.<\/p>

Not yet another update?<\/p> <\/blockquote>

Too bad 90% of the Internet are not news sites or shops. I am seeing the worst SERPs ever, the worst rankings, the worst traffic and the most bot traffic ever and it only gets worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Anyway, that said, I see the same, and 3 weeks ago been scrapped like never by bots (Germany) and China (Lanzhou). The quantity of bots is massive, and even running ads on facebook I receive message that are also bots…<\/p>

This week situation is big sink around the 11th…<\/p>

If at least bots could pay and place orders<\/p> <\/blockquote>

What are you all seeing?<\/p>

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.<\/p> <\/p><\/div>

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