June 2023 Google Search Observations

[Broaster]

I decided not to post any articles on my niche blog for a few days and on my stat counter I get 3 to 5 visits an hour on average. its hopeless.

[edited by: not2easy at 3:52 pm (utc) on Jun 1, 2023]
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[RedBar]

underscores the huge disconnect between Google executives and what their users want.

Not only Google but almost every WEF supporter plus many other groups!

[BigKat]

Or, more accurately, between Google executives and what publishers, e-commerce vendors, etc. want.

Read the story mhansen was kind enough to post where you will see it references upset users along with Google's senior VP of search acknowledge "users are still not quite happy."

Surely if users can't find what they are looking for, we won't be happy either because they can't find us unless they use a different search engine, which some are thankfully doing in our case.

[ichthyous]

Huge drops today...30% lower search traffic. USA traffic is down 30%. DE, CA, AU, UAE all down between 15-45%. UK is the only bright spot, up 24%

[Soulofmonk]

Terrible traffic today. I am pretty sure it is due to Google pushing two or three featured snippets at the top, resulting in lower CTR. :(

[Martin Ice Web]

once again a big drop After 3 good days. It seems about 70%. Oh Boy, Google will have a great quater.

[RubicCubed]

Massive flux in the serps today, which has become quite typical from a lost company unable to find its sense of direction. The only constants I see are the paywall of ads above organic results and the lack of converting organic traffic these ads have consumed.

[Treud]

CTR tanking and tanking each weeks. Looks like now people just stay in Google and will never leave ….

[emperor2]

GA real time shows blank for few minutes and come back live with some visitors then it repeats. Usually we will see random number of visitors at any time and more visitors at peak time. Lost many keyword rankings this month. No algorithm updates confirmed yet. No idea what is happening, hope it is not permanent :(

[Nutterum]

OK an update about the shadow update. This comes from the apparel e-commerce space. Many of my colleagues repeat the same thing too. It seems this Google update is aimed at expediting the shift of rank results from summer/spring inventory and products/categories shown on the SERPs for these in to the summer apparel. I am talking entire categories getting straight up delisted or loosing 30-40 ranks in the SERPs. What is left are the behemoth websites like amazon or global apparel websites like Nike, or Hugo Boss etc. to show what they have for these "off-season" keywords. It's like someone at Google said , yeah lets dial the SERP relevancy to 11 and unless you are a huge websites with millions of backlinks , you are out of the search results.

I have seen this in the past but it was waaaay more smooth. Delisting entire categories from tens of big apparel e-commerce websites as a solution is..concerning.

[KaseyM]

Substantial drop midway through the month - recovered somewhat but still not good.

[ichthyous]

The huge drop in usa traffic continues...down 30% at 3:45pm. Fridays have been lower in general, but not a 30% decline. It seems USA is the only downer today...everyplace else that matters is up. This is while my ranking is higher.

[EditorialGuy]

The huge drop in usa traffic continues...down 30% at 3:45pm. Fridays have been lower in general, but not a 30% decline.

July 4 weekend, maybe?

[mosxu]

Where did my previous comment go?

I am very serious about bots! 70% of the traffic it may be bots that is a very big chunk of our economy!

[not2easy]

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