Google Mother's Day Weekend Search Algorithm Update (May 6th - May 8th) - Search Engine Roundtable

I am seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking update that kicked off late Friday, May 6th and has really spiked this morning - May 8th - also Mother's Day in many regions. There is both a lot of chatter in the SEO forums and many of the tools are showing volatility in the Google search results rankings.

I do try not to post on the weekend but this morning the signals I track around these updates really spiked - so I figured I'd do a special weekend and Mother's Day story about this update.

The last update we reported on also went unconfirmed, the May 1st update. Things calmed down a bit since May 1st but again, the Google search results started to spike a couple of days ago.

SEO Chatter

Here is some of the chatter from SEOs about this possible Google update from both WebmasterWorld and some comments here.

Things simply do not "feel" right this month however my "feelings" do not agree with my traffic:

1-5 May 115.3% 6 May so far 50.7% with 12 hours remaining of my Googleday

Noticeably my traffic this month is well ahead from India and down from the USA. I always get quantity traffic from India since we're a 50-year-old Anglo-Indian company plus India is one of the top 3 global sources for my widgets.

Same here. Yesterday normal, today 58% down so far.

My USA traffic also way down today... down 45% at 11:30am. Check your stats for previous Fridays. I am seeing this huge drop in USA traffic every single Friday like clockwork. Meanwhile plenty of Peru, Nigeria,...

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