"I am seeing some signs of a Google search ranking update over the past day or so but the chatter is super limited right now. Many of the tools spike yesterday but like I said, the SEO community chatter was calm. I wonder if this volatility was related to maybe the Cloudflare outage or Gemini 3 rolling out. Probably neither but maybe the Cloudflare outage caused some short term indexing issues where Google temporarily removed some pages from its search results,"
"The last time we reported on Google ranking volatility was on 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 and to be honest, there has been a lot less chatter since Google turned off the ability to see 100 results per page and the tools began to recalibrate."
"No sales yesterday not using cloudflare but most of my competitors do, that means that only zombies seen our ads damn it? In most cases this are one-hit visitors from US, India, Singapore .... This traffic comes in surges and lasts for about 10 to 15 minutes. If it is not Google spinning the wheel, it is hard to explain why real Google traffic is completely (100%) gone, while this "bot" or "Google fake" tra"
Signs of a Google search ranking update appeared over a short period with limited SEO community chatter. Multiple tracking tools spiked while forums and webmaster boards remained unusually quiet. Potential causes considered include a Cloudflare outage producing short-term indexing issues or a quiet integration of Gemini 3 models into ranking systems, though both are considered unlikely. A sequence of prior volatility dates is noted, with a prominent adjustment around October 16th. Reported symptoms include sudden surges of one-hit, bot-like visitors from varied countries and an apparent loss of genuine Google-sourced traffic for some sites.
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