Huge Drop In Google People Also Ask

Google seems to be showing the people also ask feature a lot less often now on desktop. According to Semrush and RankRanger, it was at about 60% of queries showing people also ask and now it is closer to 30%.

The decline started around July 7th, last Thursday. That is a huge drop. Here are the charts from both those tracker tools.

Semrush:

RankRanger:

This is a big change – is this causing issues for any of you?

Here is what people also ask look like:

The folks at RankRanger are looking into what changed here, if it is a reporting issue or a real change in Google Search.

Forum discussion at Twitter.