Google De-Ranked My Twitter & YouTube

Before if you'd Google me, the top search results were my YouTube and Twitter profiles. But after sharing my recent #TwitterFiles thread, I noticed that my Twitter feed and Youtube channel had been de-ranked in Google search results.

screenshot 4/20/2023 by @pkm_inc

For some odd reason, LinkedIn and SoundCloud—both of which I haven’t used in many years—became the top search results. This changed again recently, as today 5/4/23, YouTube is back to being the top search result. However, Twitter is still de-ranked.

Earlier this week, my Twitter ranked below IMDb, Pinterest, and someone else's 2016 Facebook post. How could someone else’s 7-year-old Facebook post rank higher up in results than my own Facebook/Twitter?

Today, with the exception of the Facebook post, these inactive pages, including Pinterest—which I’ve never used beyond creating an account over 10 years ago—still appear ahead of my Twitter feed.

screenshot 5/4/23

The results will continue to change with the algorithm. I can’t explain these shifts. But I can say, whether intended to or not, the algorithm suppressed traffic to my YouTube and Twitter pages, at least temporarily.