Algo Update Tracker
Every confirmed and unconfirmed Google algorithm update — with dates, categories, summaries, and references. Filter by year, category, or status. List refreshes every few hours.
- StartedJun 17, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
The chatter in the SEO industry hasn't calmed down much since the last report for the period of June 5-12. The Google search results seem more heated on June 17th, and there appears to be an unconfirmed Google search ranking update underway. There is still a lot of chatter and on 6/17, the tools seem to be showing an …
References - ActiveJun 5, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
Earlier this month, the Google May 2026 core update was completed on June 2, 2026. But the volatility has not seemed to calm down. There has been a lot of chatter spike up from within the SEO community over the weekend. The SEO chatter started Friday, June 5th and continued through the weekend. Meanwhile, most of the t…
References - ActiveMay 21, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026ConfirmedWeb
May 2026 Core Update
Google announced on May 21st: Today we released the May 2026 core update to Google Search. This is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites. The rollout may take up to 2 weeks to complete. The Google May 2026 core update seemed to have hit some site…
- ActiveMay 13, 2026 – May 14, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There has been a large spike in signs that there is Google search ranking movement and volatility. This is between the SEO community chatter spiking, as well as some of the tools showing some big volatility swings.
References - ActiveMay 8, 2026 – May 9, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
Many of the third-party tracking tools, not all, but many, are showing some heated volatility this morning (May 8th) around Google Search's ranking positions. There has also been some early chatter within the SEO industry about movement in their rankings. It is possible that there may have been an unconfirmed Google up…
References - ActiveMar 27, 2026 – Mar 28, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There are new signs of the Google search ranking volatility heating up. For the unconfirmed update reported on last week, the tools began to show volatility trend upwards. But now, while some of the tools are calm, the chatter within the forums has spiked over the past 24 hours or so. This might be the start of someth…
References - ActiveMar 27, 2026 – Apr 8, 2026ConfirmedWeb
March 2026 Core Update
Google has started rolling out the March 2026 core update, according to a notice on the Google Search Status Dashboard. The company says the update began at 2:00 a.m. PT on March 27 and may take up to two weeks to finish. Google said this "is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for …
- ActiveMar 24, 2026 – Mar 25, 2026ConfirmedWeb
March 2026 Spam Update
Google has released the March 2026 spam update on March 24, 2026 at around 3:20 pm ET. This update applies globally and to all languages and will take a few days (not weeks) to complete. The rollout completed just one day later at 10:40 am ET, March 25th. Google added, "This is a normal spam update, and it will roll…
- ActiveMar 22, 2026 – Mar 23, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
It's been a while since we last covered some unconfirmed Google Search ranking volatility and algorithm twitches but now there are signs of the volatility heating up again. These signs are mostly coming from the tools; the community seems busier with other things.
References - ActiveMar 7, 2026 – Mar 9, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
More of the same - the Google Search ranking volatility remains heated. Many are asking when we will see an officially announced Google core update. But it has not been announced yet. The volatility score has been sustained around 9.5/10 since Feb 14th, going on almost a month straight now.
References - ActiveFeb 27, 2026 – Mar 3, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
Google Search rankings remain heated into March. We thought things might be cooling a bit, but the volatility really has not cooled much at all. A lot of tracking tools did cool off around Feb 22nd but it picked right back up. Semrush's sensor has not showed any signs of cooling off since Feb 10th. We are still seeing …
References - ActiveFeb 14, 2026 – Feb 21, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
On February 10th, it was reported the beginning of yet another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update. The volatility has not cooled yet and it seems it may have even heated up through the weekend. There was a slip dip of high volatility on Feb 12th and 13th but ramped back up on Feb 14th and has been holding all the…
References - ActiveFeb 10, 2026 – Feb 12, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There are early signs of yet another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update with more volatility touching down today, February 10th. The chatter within the SEO community is starting to spike, and some of the third-party tracking tools are showing volatility. This seems unrelated to the February 2026 Google Discover …
References - ActiveFeb 5, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026ConfirmedWeb
February 2026 Discover Core Update
Google announced on Feb 5th, 2026: Today, we're announcing an algorithmic change that enhances the quality of articles that appear on Discover. We're calling this the February 2026 Discover Core update. This is a broad update to our systems that surface articles in Discover. Our testing shows that people find the Disco…
- ActiveFeb 2, 2026 – Feb 4, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
We were hoping that Google would calm down a bit since we had such a volatile January. But the Google Search results volatility is still very volatile, and the shuffling in those results is still shaking up. This new spike in volatility began on February 2nd but has continued to heat up over the past couple of days. I…
References - ActiveJan 29, 2026 – Jan 30, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
January has been an insane month with Google Search ranking volatility, and the most heated time is right now, as we end the month. There has been a significant spike in SEO chatter and many of the tools are showing very heated Google search ranking volatility over the past 24 hours or so. It is surprising Google has …
References - ActiveJan 26, 2026 – Jan 27, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
The Google Search rankings continue to be super volatile and heated even through today. This started back throughout most of January and it has really heated up even more so since January 21st or so. It has not calmed down. There is still chatter about traffic drops, ranking changes and the tools are still very heated…
References - ActiveJan 21, 2026 – Jan 22, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
Last week, it was reported on January 15th of a Google Search ranking update with a lot of heated volatility. Truth is, it went through the weekend, but now it is spiking back up again as of January 20th and 21st. It seemed like whatever kicked in last week around the 15th burned through the weekend. And now, we are s…
References - ActiveJan 15, 2026 – Jan 16, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There are new signs of yet more Google Search ranking volatility and a possible tweak to the ranking search algorithm. Something kicked January 15th, that the third-party tools picked up on. With this update, there is limited chatter, unlike the previous unconfirmed Google Search ranking update. The heat and volatilit…
References - ActiveJan 12, 2026 – Jan 13, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There are signs of a possible Google search ranking update or volatility around January 12, 2026. This is weird in that most of the tools, not all, are mostly calm, but the chatter has picked up and many SEOs are noticing ranking fluctuations. It is not too far off from what patterns we saw with the unconfirmed Januar…
References - ActiveJan 6, 2026 – Jan 7, 2026UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There are a number of SEOs and site owners complaining that they saw a large drop in Google Search rankings on January 6th, 2026. This unconfirmed Google update does not feel as widespread as some of the previous ones we reported on but I wanted to document this one as such, just in case some of you are impacted.
References - ActiveDec 11, 2025 – Dec 29, 2025ConfirmedWeb
December 2025 Core Update
Per Google: Today (Dec 11th) we released the December 2025 core update. In the past several hours (from the Core algo launch), the chatter within the SEO community around volatility significantly spiked. So it's not a total surprise we got a core update this week. The most noticeable day of the impact was Saturday, D…
- ActiveDec 6, 2025 – Dec 7, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
It was a heated weekend (12/6 & 12/7), the Google Search ranking volatility was pretty heated and there was a lot of chatter within the SEO industry. Not all the tools are showing big swings but many are. And everyone is asking, what happened with Google confirming core updates - is that over?
References - ActiveDec 3, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There are some signs of a Google Search ranking update and intense volatility that kicked in late on Dec 3rd. The SEO community started chattering about it and some of the tools are showing a spike in volatility with the Google search rankings.
References - ActiveNov 24, 2025 – Nov 25, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
Google might have pushed out a Google search ranking update Monday Nov 24th & Tuesday 25th. Although the chatter was somewhat quiet, it picked up today and some of the tools are also picking up on an update. There were some limited signs over the past couple of days but held off on reporting it because I just covered…
References - ActiveNov 19, 2025 – Nov 20, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There are some signs of a Google search ranking update on Wednesday, 11/19. However, the chatter is super limited right now. Many of the tools spike yesterday but like I said, the SEO community chatter was calm. Could this volatility was related to maybe the Cloudflare outage or Gemini 3 rolling out? Probably neither …
References - StartedNov 17, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Weather Update
Google confirmed a new search algorithm update - well, this is just a weather feature. Google said Google Search's weather results were updated to what they call WeatherNext 2 - Google's "most advanced and efficient forecasting model." Google said WeatherNext 2 is now used for "weather forecasts in Search, Gemini, Pix…
References - ActiveNov 12, 2025 – Nov 13, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There has been significant movement and volatility in the Google Search results again, with this one kicking up more on Wednesday, November 12th. This may be a continuation of the ongoing Movember update (from 11/7). There has been a lot of chatter over the past day or so, and some of the tools spiked over the past 24…
References - ActiveNov 6, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
Starting maybe late Thursday (11/6), into Friday, November 7th, there was a feeling of a Google Search ranking update and volatility brewing. Since the num=100 parameter change, it has been harder to validate unconfirmed updates, but based on the chatter there has been in the SEO community and some of the third-party G…
References - ActiveOct 28, 2025 – Oct 31, 2025UnconfirmedWeb
Unconfirmed Update
There may have been another Google Search ranking algorithm tweak around October 28th or so. There has been some rumblings both within the SEO community chatter and the third-party Google tracking tools. It seems some are noticing big search ranking swings around October 28th. This seems to be heating up into and throu…
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