Has There Been An Algorithm Update?

A steady and consistent level of chatter in forums and social networks has been noticed from webmasters, and SEOs who are around Google’s search results variations. The steady and consistent level tends to be higher, but have there been any shifts?

As you would already know, recently, Google has been quite active with many link networks. Maybe this is the cause for the high rise; however, the increase has just occurred with the past day or so. Whereas, the link network business happened more than a week ago.

Posts (below) are from WebmasterWorld and include:

“Seeing huge movement since Saturday. It seems to be the “softer” Panda update. Unfortunately it looks more like a hardened version, since almost all small websites in my niche (including mine) went down a few spots and many big brand sites with low quality content are ranking much higher than before.”

“We’ve seen some negative shifting here, down 5 – 10 positions for most of our main terms. Bad times again spooned out by Google.”

“My small niche site’s traffic has doubled since last week. I did get a big link last week and added rich snippet breadcrumbs the weekend before and google is now showing the review score snippets finally, so don’t know if it’s an algorithm thing or any of the latter.”

However, it has not been confirmed if any algorithm update has taken place or not. Maybe it was just more manual actions in the week, and/or many SEOs and webmasters who were denying a lot of links.

Nothing can be said without being confirmed.