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Google has confirmed a bug in Google Search that has resulted in a decreased traffic to video content<\/a> between the dates of May 4-17, 2023. This was not just a Google Search Console reporting error, but a Google Search error.<\/p>\n What Google wrote. <\/strong>Google published,<\/a> “A bug caused a drop in video traffic from May 4-17 and has since been resolved.”<\/p>\n I asked Google’s John Mueller if this was just a reporting failure, and he said no, it was beyond reporting. “It wasn’t just reporting,” he said he told me<\/a> about Mastodon.<\/p>\n Search Console reports. <\/strong>If you go to Google Search Console, click on the search performance report and filter by “video” content, you’ll see an annotation added to the chart on May 4:<\/p>\n Why we care <\/strong>If you’ve noticed a drop in traffic between May 4th and May 17th and you post a lot of video content, it may be related to this error.<\/p>\n In this case, reporting was not the problem and reporting should be accurate. There was a bug with Google Search that caused fewer videos to be displayed in search results.<\/p>\n