Google SERP Changes & Algorithm Updates - March 2021

[rakesh20]

Links plays an important role in ranking. Content plays a small role.

But what is happening now is just horrible. Ads are filled in the SERP's and also garbage organic results.

[sammyking]

Is it just me or yall also seeing that Asian pages are getting indexed at a very slow pace?

[batman]

@sammyking Yup.. It's the new normal now.

[sammyking]

Why the eCPM rates have fallen so much I don't get. I mean does all advertisers vanish over night?

[danni]

@sammyking If you are noticing it now then probably you are from an odd niche. We have been experiencing this since mid February..

[mediadrug]

Our US traffic is all time down now. Anyway, discover is getting traffic. Weird though..

Meanwhile, SEMrush is showing something.

https://www.semrush.com/sensor/

[nehal91]

@mediadrug Yup old posts are flooding Discover.

[harvee21]

Today it seemed okay. News related traffic is back.. Along with good eCPM rates..

And today traffic from closed network countries are down so it might be the case too.

[zeus]

And today traffic from closed network countries are down so it might be the case too.

Yup that is the actual case here. Today traffic from non-English speaking countries are also close to none. So, hence the sharp rise in eCPM.

[macaulead]

@zeus @harvee21 I only saw that for a couple of hours and then it went down. Today still waiting.