Good morning, Search Marketer, corporate moved me to the Wednesday slot for the newsletter – to cheer you up on hump day.
In my newsletter on Friday, I covered how busy Google was this month with pushing out unconfirmed Google Search algorithm updates. Well, guess what, this past weekend? On May 22, Google had one of its biggest and most volatile unconfirmed updates in a while.
I asked Google about it, but I did not hear back from them. (Surprise, surprise.) The weird part is that with the May 22 update, although the tracking tools were mostly all "off the charts," the chatter within the SEO industry was not. SEOs were not talking about ranking changes in forums or on social media much. Makes you scratch your head as to what really happened on May 22.
(And no, this is not related to MUM. It is not live yet.)
Anyway, if you noticed big changes on May 22, you are not alone. If Google does confirm it, we will let you know.
Barry Schwartz,
SEO chatter listener