Google Updates and SERP Changes - November 2019

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Not what i'd seen, it wasn't even that.
I'd class myself as an experienced searcher, and, sometimes, when I look at Google's serps it's trying to pre-empt my intent. More often than not, it's presenting either highly-optimised sites, or, in this case, it was all wrong. Something's broke.

It works that way these days.

I don't ever use "best" as that is spammed out.

[ichthyous]

I was abroad for most of November and did not focus on Google. It strikes me that whatever disastrous (for me) updates Google made in March and early June were dialed back slowly. I started to see real inquiries again in Sept/Oct and now especially in Nov. Traffic is definitely being throttled IMHO, it never goes out of certain parameters anymore and that just isn't a natural traffic pattern. I've spent five months of this year as a total write-off, and the economy is still doing fine. Being a veteran guinea pig in Google's laboratory, I know that they are likely to unleash more disastrous updates soon enough and then dial those back too. So, it's basically grab it while you can.

[KaseyM]

Traffic bit lower these past couple of days but boy is revenue good at the moment. Entertainment site.

[StupidIntelligent]

"So, it's basically grab it while you can."

Yup. The party is coming to its closing time.

[SnowMan68]

Historically, Black Friday has always been 10-15% lower for G organic than our peak day during the week. This year we are pacing to be about 10% higher than our best day this week, which oddly enough had been record traffic day for a 14 year old website. I can't tell if this is because of an update or user behavior decided in 2019 it was going to completely change and that many more people stayed home vs shopped locally? It is the oddest thing.

[renatovieira]

Traffic quite below normal. Strange for a Saturday.

Someone else?

Live streaming cameras, USA

[sk7411]

Traffic quite below normal. Strange for a Saturday.

Someone else?

Live streaming cameras, USA

I was refreshing this thread for someone to report it and thats what i have observed too , very strange for a saturday , i can't deny the fact that dials were touched . It seems the chatters are less due to weekends , lets see what others have to report on this.

[EditorialGuy]

Traffic quite below normal. Strange for a Saturday.

Someone else?

Our traffic is looking pretty normal for a Saturday in November.

Also, I'd expect it to be off a bit, since nearly half of our traffic comes from the U.S. and this is an important holiday weekend in the States.

[renatovieira]

@sk7411
@EditorialGuy

Thanksgiving Day has never affected as large as today. I have many live cameras at various tourist spots. Usually around this time my traffic goes up, but I see only a big drop today. This is not common during US holidays.

[SnowMan68]

Our traffic is up about 20% today

[mosxu]

@snowman

WTF are you talking about?

[heisje]

- So, it's basically grab it while you can.
- Yup. The party is coming to its closing time.

And we shall not forget, and we shall not forgive.

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[SnowMan68]

@mosxu

WTF do you mean? lol. Our G organic traffic is now pacing to be up about 30% today.

[seomotionz]

Our traffic is looking pretty normal for a Saturday in November.

@EditorialGuy Exactly correct. Traffic may be not normal as a Saturday but definitely normal as a Saturday in November specially for the day after Black Friday.

Traffic is just slow.

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The following 4 messages were moved to a new thread. New thread at: Google Updates and SERP Changes - December 2019 [webmasterworld.com]
1:34 pm on Dec 1, 2019 (atl -4)

[edited by: not2easy at 5:47 pm (utc) on Dec 1, 2019]
[edit reason] December thread split [/edit]