Google rolls out May 25th Core Update

**econfox** · 26 May 2022, 9:37 pm

This is what I have noticed on my sites.

I noticed that my rankings have been crushed but it is early & there is still hope of a bounce back.

It really hit my snippets. The ones that I had that were better than sportsbook/casino I referenced have taken a hit and the company snippet replaced mine. It looks like this update is helping the company you are an affiliate for and not the affiliate.

This is from the article
The article link is from seoroundtable

Google May 2022 Broad Core Update Is Live - What We Are Seeing Now

Google Search has begun to roll out the first broad core update of the year, the May 2022 broad core update. It started on May 25, 2022 at about 11:30am ET and will now roll out for the next couple of weeks.
So far, we are seeing many signs that this May 2022 core update started off strong. Over night, a lot of the tracking tools (not all just yet) picked up big volatility with the Google search results. Also, the chatter starting early this morning is really picking up. The chatter changed from comments like - "oh no, there was a Google core update announced" to "oh no, my site dropped in rankings in a big way." I embedded and quoted a lot of that early chatter below, along with what the tools are showing. I may update some of the tools as they update later on this morning.
Google May 2022 Broad Core Update Quick Facts

Here are the most important things that we know right now in short form:

Name: Google May 2022 Broad Core Update
Launched: May 25, 2022 at around 11:30pm ET
Rollout: It will take about one to two weeks to roll out
Targets: It looks at all types of content
Penalty: It is not a penalty, it promotes or rewards great web pages
Global: This is a global update impacting all regions, in all languages.
Impact: Google would not tell me what percentage of queries or searches were impacted by this update.
Discover: Core updates impact Google Discover and other features, also feature snippets and more.
Recover: If you were hit by this, then you will need to look at your content and see if you can do better with Google's advice below.
Refreshes: Google will do periodic refreshes to this algorithm but may not communicate those updates in the future. Maybe this is what we saw the past couple of weeks or all those unconfirmed Google updates.

**vifa** · 27 May 2022, 1:20 am

Yes, looks like a big one. One of my sites dropped on several keywords. But as you write too early to see the end result yet.

**newcustomeroffer** · 27 May 2022, 3:40 am

Ah so the recent fluctuations were indeed the precursor to a core update. 6 months since the last so was definitely due.

**PaulEchere** · 27 May 2022, 10:19 am

Saw my dily clicks dropping, what's interesting is that the average position didn't really change all that much.

**newcustomeroffer** · 28 May 2022, 4:15 am

Can't say I've seen much in the way of change so far. SERPs still dominated by brands and parasite pages on media sites in the main.

**Bartek** · 29 May 2022, 10:15 pm

Originally Posted by PaulEchere

Saw my dily clicks dropping, what's interesting is that the average position didn't really change all that much.

Exactly the same happened to me, daily clicks down but no position change.

Maybe just the numbers are wrong and once the update is finished, it will go back to normal.... hopefully

**BCGame Affiliates** · 30 May 2022, 6:00 am

I haven't seen much change but it will be interested to see how it pans out

**Cash Bonus** · 30 May 2022, 3:40 pm

I haven’t seen any changes yet. Although I’ve got more clicks and registrations, there have been no new RMPs. Very disappointing.

**wonderpunter** · 31 May 2022, 3:19 am

This seemed to take away a lot of long tail, also i did notice the reshuffle in google and what i noticed was typical cookie cutter sites but with powerful links.. and nicer designs with mostly unrelated links with spammy anchors so will be intresting to see how the finishes, I think there will be some modifications

**smaffiliate** · 31 May 2022, 10:10 am

No wonder my keywords keep dancing recently ><

**veskoguglev** · 31 May 2022, 10:15 am

I have websites covering many countries and in different languages. What I have noticed in the last 10 days was slowly but surely they all lost their rankings even for longtail keywords. The main issue I have with that is that I can not figure out what exactly is the problem. The articles are optimized properly, the backlinks are all relevant, and the websites are technically ok so I don't know what to do to fix that. I guess that we will have to wait and see what will happen in the next few weeks before we start changing the websites but I am not sure how long it will take to get back to the positions I had before the update.

**Lee1** · 1 June 2022, 6:31 am

No major changes on my end. All looks good ��

**iso2009** · 1 June 2022, 3:28 pm

I have no complaints apart from SPAM appearing again in top 10. Even so, good for the spammers

**bi6liotekar** · 2 June 2022, 4:54 am

seems like a good push to the multilocal affiliate website. exactly after 25 of may.

**Artem** · 6 June 2022, 12:51 am

One of my sites got twice as much traffic in May, but not for long. Now it's back.

**eenzoo** · 6 June 2022, 2:41 am

Originally Posted by veskoguglev

I have websites covering many countries and in different languages. What I have noticed in the last 10 days was slowly but surely they all lost their rankings even for longtail keywords. The main issue I have with that is that I can not figure out what exactly is the problem. The articles are optimized properly, the backlinks are all relevant, and the websites are technically ok so I don't know what to do to fix that. I guess that we will have to wait and see what will happen in the next few weeks before we start changing the websites but I am not sure how long it will take to get back to the positions I had before the update.

I see the same for casino and forex.
Actually all is set up properly with Wpml.org and hreflang-tags.

Need to have a further look.

**Randy Ray** · 7 June 2022, 6:01 pm

This latest update has been good for my sites, but the tide rolls in, and the tide rolls out. The best strategy always seem to stay the same. Keep hitting the publish button, and keep networking with like-minded website owners with an eye toward linking to and from each others' content.

**newcustomeroffer** · 10 June 2022, 7:52 am

Google Search Central twitter has confirmed that this update has now fully rolled out.

**electricgambler** · 16 June 2022, 4:09 am

A few of our sites took a big hit, and some of them are on an all time high. I think it has to do with authority. Most of our big sites got a boost where the smalle niche sites were hit big time!

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