Spam Update Rolls On, But SERPs Stay Calm
Spam Update Under a Quiet Sky Google's August 2026 spam update is still the main weather system over search today. Google logged it as a Ranking incident starting August 18 at 9:27 a.m. Pacific, sayin...
Spam Update Clears, Discover Gets Personal
Spam Update Aftermath The biggest weather system over Google Search today is the August 2026 spam update, which Google says finished at 1:49 a.m. Pacific on August 21 after starting on August 18. Sear...
Spam Fog Lingers, Rankings Stay Mostly Calm
Spam Update Aftermath The main weather system is yesterday's completed August 2026 spam update, which ran from August 18 to August 21 and applied globally across all languages. Search Engine Roundtabl...
Spam Rollout Ends, SERPs Stay Calm
Spam Update Cooldown The August 2026 spam update is now in the rearview mirror. Google’s dashboard lists it as closed, lasting 2 days and 16 hours, with ranking as the impacted system. Search Engine J...
Calm SERPs, Busy Search Features
Calm After the Spam Front Google’s search results are mostly steady today. The live partial volatility score is 4.6/10, and the last completed week has been flat around the mid-4s, which is normal wea...
Core update keeps SEO skies rough
Core Update Still Driving the Weather Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out on April 5, 2026, now on day 9 of a rollout Google said could take up to two weeks. Search En...
Core update keeps Google rankings on edge
Core update is the main storm Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out on April 4, 2026, now on day 8 of what Google said could be a two-week rollout. Search Engine Land...
Core update storm keeps rankings on edge
Core update is the main weather system Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out, now on day 7 of what Google says could be a two-week rollout. That lines up with the hotter...
Core update keeps rankings on edge
Core update is the main storm Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out on April 2, now on day 6 of what Google says may be a two-week rollout. That matters because broad cor...
Core update turbulence hits day 5
Google search results are stormy today. The March 2026 core update is still rolling out on March 31, five days after launch, and Google said the rollout may take up to two weeks. The separate March sp...
Volatility spikes, but no confirmed Google update
Google's search weather is rough on March 30. SERP volatility is running at 6.7/10 today according to WireBoard's tracker, with some tools screaming hotter than others, which usually means rankings ar...