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Google Search seems to be ranking some websites just fine during the weekdays and then removing that ranking over the weekends. It seems to be focusing heavily on non-standard TLDs, you know, those new vanity TLDs that you can make up. I am just not sure if this is a Google Search issue or if the issue is with the quality of those websites.
The super interesting part is that most of the dates of these ranking drops coincide with the weekend Google search ranking updates that we covered here. Each of these drops for these sites happened with this unconfirmed Google search ranking updates. That is not to say that only these non-standard TLDs are having issues, I asked the folks on this site deep inside the comments several days ago if their sites that were impacted were non-standard TLDs, and the vast majority said no, they were on .com TLDs.
The first person I saw cover this was Tomasz Rudzki at ZipTie. In short, he wrote, “On weekends, something strange kept happening – the website would completely lose rankings and traffic. People couldn’t even find it when they searched for it by its name.”
The dates he shared coincided with the algorithm updates I reported on. He said these were the dates:
He said, “9 out of 9 examples were non-standard TLDs, such as, .consultancy (example.consultancy), .care (example.care), .club, .info, .energy. Again, in my research, many other sites on .com’s and other standard TLDs seemed to have been impacted.
Then the other day Olesia Korobka posted on X about a support thread with a similar issue. Olesia wrote, “The question is if all websites in .media, club, clinic etc experience the issue? Or could it be a mix of locality and tld or something else?”
The question is if all websites in .media, club, clinic etc experience the issue? Or could it be a mix of locality and tld or something else?https://t.co/kehMg3phLS
— 🐝 Olesia Korobka 💙💛🐝 (@Giridja) January 16, 2024
I digged into the thread and yes, these are all non-standard TLDs and the dates match with what Tomasz Rudzki covered. Last night, Roger Monti covered this thread as well, calling it a bug. Here are some examples from the thread in the Google Webmaster Help Forums: