{"id":440,"date":"2022-01-10T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenfintech.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:13:06","slug":"google-search-ranking-update-on-january-11th-unconfirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenfintech.com\/blog\/google-search-ranking-update-on-january-11th-unconfirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Ranking Update On January 11th (Unconfirmed)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenfintech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/google-algorithm-letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>There may have been a Google search ranking algorithm update on January 11, 2022. This would be the first real unconfirmed update for the 2022 year. I am seeing both chatter spike up starting on January 10th and continue through today. Plus, many of the tracking tools are showing big movements in the Google search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEO Chatter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing WebmasterWorld has many folks saying big changes in their rankings over the past couple of days. Here is what some of the SEOs said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think Google released an update yesterday, even if no sensor has signaled it. Every competitor&#8217;s keywords position has suddenly changed and my own as well. Curious that everything is so quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think you might be right. It&#8217;s been eerily quiet(er). That would make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My USA traffic dropped considerably again yesterday, but International remained very strong. Today USA is also down, while international traffic is very strong. Sunday just looks like a reversion back to the previous throttling of USA traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavy bot traffic this morning, Google crawling and few real humans in-between. Constant shuffling in the SERPS, but Amazon crowded listings remain a permanent fixture at the top which is a huge help to our Chinese competitors I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me Europe woke up from its Xmas \/ New Year yesterday along with a torrent of USA single page visitors. The single page visitors all went to individual widget pages which, for me, is most un-botlike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic was at 308.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My traffic was also up yesterday and looks quite perky today too, so far. Mine much more in line with what I would expect this time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge drop today. Semrush again on fire now\u2026 Another coincidence? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something was definitely rolled out. All competitors in my niche are up (semrush). Some +10, +5. +3, +7 etc. Me? +0.05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clobbered again, zero-day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tracking Tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I said, the tracking tools are showing big movements as well. 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