Spam Update Keeps Rankings Choppy
Spam Update Storm Band Google's September 2026 spam update is still the main weather system over search today, October 1. Google's Search Status Dashboard lists the update as starting September 24, an...
Spam Update Storm Hits Another Wave
Spam Update Still Driving the Weather Google's September 2026 spam update is still the main storm system. Google's own status dashboard says it began on September 24 at 9:15 a.m. PDT, applies globally...
Rankings Are Moving, But the Radar Is Foggy
Rank Tracking Fog Rolls In The search sky is windy and messy today. Volatility is still in the moderate-high zone, with today's partial score at 6.8/10, but the bigger issue is confidence: several thi...
Rank Tracking Fog Rolls Over Google
Data Fog Around Rankings The strongest weather system today is not a confirmed ranking change, it is measurement fog. Search Engine Roundtable reported ongoing complaints that third-party rank tracker...
AI Links Rise, But Traffic Fog Remains
AI Search Gets More Click Targets The strongest weather system is still Google's AI results reshaping discovery. On October 15, Google said AI Mode and AI Overviews are getting more inline links, high...
Search Console Gets a Visual Search Lens
Visual Search Data Arrives The biggest practical change today is Google adding multimodal search reporting in Search Console. In plain English, site owners can now see when people found them through i...
AI Search Clouds the Click Forecast
AI Search Is Squeezing the Click Path The strongest weather system today is AI search reducing publisher traffic. Search Engine Journal covered new research this morning showing that Google AI Mode us...
Search Cools, Discover Gets Foggy
Today's Reporting Glitch The live item today is a Search Console weather-station glitch: the Crawl Stats report is missing data for September 15, 2026. Search Engine Roundtable says this appears acros...
Europe SERPs get reshuffled
EEA Search Gets Rebuilt The strongest SEO weather system is still over Europe. On September 18, Google Search Central updated its documentation to say aggregator units and supplier units now support l...
Google SERPs Calm, But Tools Look Foggy
Tracker Fog Over the SERPs The SEO sky is calmer than it looked yesterday. Rankings ran into moderate turbulence on September 16 and 17, peaking at 6.1/10, but today’s partial read for September 18, 2...
AI Search Fog, Rankings Cooling
Rankings: Yesterday's Squall Is Fading Search Engine Roundtable flagged a September 15 ranking flare-up, with community chatter about traffic drops, odd Top Stories results, and shifting keyword sets....