Google SERP Changes & Algorithm Updates - May 2021

[nehal91]

Meanwhile, good advertisers are back I guess. Last two days all rates are up.

@lou99 Wait for a couple of days before coming into any conclusion. Youtube videos doesn't stay much time in th SERP's.

[vk_lord]

US traffic is and always had been marginal for me. Neither too good nor too bad.

But this type of behaviour is just odd for me. I haven't seen this type of traffic from US in my life time. They are low converting as hell. Has a terrible CTR and also the whole day traffic remains absent. All of a sudden at the middle of the night or during evening they pop up out of nowhere. And just eat up all of our bandwidth.

[limbo]

Being a guy who is dependent on US traffic. I can feel your pain. @vk_lord

But no pattern is emerging right now. Traffic is just low.

[zeus]

Something is going on since yesterday. Bots were flooding everything and now this.





SEMrush is reporting 8.7 

[mediadrug]

@zeus I was expecting this since Friday. Yup, the bot activity kind of gave it away.

[ecampbell]

Thiss update is weird!! All of a sudden I am seeing a lot pages of mine is being deindexed.

[elliekushn]

@ecampbell So far our traffic is average. Can't confirm anything until Monday traffic comes back.

[zeus]

Some are complaining about the de-indexing issue.

But my most concern is the new pages which are not getting indexed. Some pages really loose their value over mere few hours.

Around 20% decrease in traffic last weekend. Monday today it's the same for me no change so far.

Although, PPC ads were getting gibberish clicks at first few hours. But now they are looking pretty stable.

[mediamonster]

@zeus Whatever this is. I have a feeling that it's only just the beginning.

[lootmeup]

No new urls are getting indexed right now. And also old ones are disappearing.