I am seeing new signs that Google search rankings may be becoming more unstable. When I reported on this last week, several tracking tools had already started showing increased movement. Now, although some tools have returned to normal levels, discussions about ranking changes have increased significantly across SEO forums over the past 24 hours.

It is still too early to tell whether this is the beginning of a larger change or simply normal fluctuations in Google Search. In most cases, these types of changes are not officially confirmed by Google.

As a reminder, the March 2026 Core Update began on March 27, 2026, and was completed on April 8, 2026.

SEO Chatter:

‘’Lowest traffic today. Someone pulled the plug?’’

‘’This morning I had to check all my email addresses were working since the only thing I had received were 6 spams … This afternoon genuine mails started coming through but not the volume I am used to … Strange.’’

‘’They get it worse with every update.’’

‘’That’s really strange. The shop has been recovering since Sunday. But the news site is acting very oddly. Visitor numbers are rising slightly again, but according to Sistrix, the ranking has dropped by more than half and seems to be falling further. Only the ranking for the main keywords is okay, but Discover has been severely throttled. That’s really strange, because up until Wednesday, Discover alone was generating record numbers.

I really don’t understand what Google is up to again.’’

‘’Wednesday appears to have been a blip. Site traffic is now consistent with recent weeks.’’

‘’Same here, getting less Google traffic and drastically reduced conversions for a couple of days. GSC was stuck without refresh for 32 hours, too, which used to signal they allocated compute for something more important in the past. Traffic seems slightly better by now, but still weird compared to two weeks ago.’’

‘’If something changes within seconds, it is clearly not weather or anything else. It is Google.’’