Google launched its November 2023 Reviews update on Wednesday afternoon, November 8. But we didn't see it have much of any impact until Saturday, November 11th. It currently seems this Reviews update is not as widespread as the November 2023 core update but there are some sites getting hit hard by this Reviews update.
We saw a nice amount of chatter over the weekend and now, as of Monday morning, the some of the tools are picking this Google Search ranking volatility up.
As a reminder, this will be the last time Google has confirmed a reviews update because it is now more of a regular update, compared to past reviews updates.
SEO Chatter
Here is the recent SEO chatter from WebmasterWorld and our comments area here about what some SEOs are experiencing. We also have posts on X from Glenn Gabe:
And check out these two drops. Very interesting to see these sites lose visibility in certain SERP features, which can drive a ton of traffic. When you isolate the SERP features, you can really see that drop... Checking some of the queries, the sites still rank in the 10 blue… pic.twitter.com/vN57i3kQo2
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 12, 2023
There seems to be a lot of movement on Google today. According to my SEO tools, many of my most important keywords have literally shot up in the rankings.
Huge drop today... Here We Go Again
Our most developed and oldest projects (websites) have been heavily hit by this update. Traffic is down by good 90%, I want to say even 100% as they...
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