GOOGLE IS FEEDING RANK TRACKERS POISONED SERPS WITH SWAPPED RESULTS, NOZZLE FINDS

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Google has been feeding rank trackers fake search results since September 13. Nozzle found that 8.4% of SERPs were affected across 27M results analyzed. The poisoned pages look normal but retain just 22% of their usual sites. This causes tracked top-10 rankings to disappear 60.2% of the time. Social platforms and forums appear more often in these results. SEO teams should cross-check ranking drops against Google Search Console before assuming their rankings have changed.