Thursday 18 July 2013

Google Confirms Panda Update Is Rolling Out: This One Is More "Finely Targeted"

Google has confirmed a Panda update is rolling out and this specific update is “more finely targeted.”

As you may remember, Google told us new Panda algorithms are being pushed out monthly over a ten day period. Google’s Matt Cutts did imply there was a bit of a delay in pushing out their monthly Panda refresh because they wanted to release signals that would soften the algorithm a bit.

Here are all the releases so far for Panda:

1.       Panda Update 1, Feb. 24, 2011 (11.8% of queries; announced; English in US only)
2.       Panda Update 2, April 11, 2011 (2% of queries; announced; rolled out in English internationally)
3.       Panda Update 3, May 10, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
4.       Panda Update 4, June 16, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
5.       Panda Update 5, July 23, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
6.       Panda Update 6, Aug. 12, 2011 (6-9% of queries in many non-English languages; announced)
7.       Panda Update 7, Sept. 28, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
8.       Panda Update 8, Oct. 19, 2011 (about 2% of queries; belatedly confirmed)
9.       Panda Update 9, Nov. 18, 2011: (less than 1% of queries; announced)
10.   Panda Update 10, Jan. 18, 2012 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
11.   Panda Update 11, Feb. 27, 2012 (no change given; announced)
12.   Panda Update 12, March 23, 2012 (about 1.6% of queries impacted; announced)
13.   Panda Update 13, April 19, 2012 (no change given; belatedly revealed)
14.   Panda Update 14, April 27, 2012: (no change given; confirmed; first update within days of another)
15.   Panda Update 15, June 9, 2012: (1% of queries; belatedly announced)
16.   Panda Update 16, June 25, 2012: (about 1% of queries; announced)
17.   Panda Update 17, July 24, 2012:(about 1% of queries; announced)
18.   Panda Update 18, Aug. 20, 2012: (about 1% of queries; belatedly announced)
19.   Panda Update 19, Sept. 18, 2012: (less than 0.7% of queries; announced)
20.   Panda Update 20 , Sept. 27, 2012 (2.4% English queries, impacted, belatedly announced
21.   Panda Update 21, Nov. 5, 2012 (1.1% of English-language queries in US; 0.4% worldwide; confirmed, not announced)
22.   Panda Update 22, Nov. 21, 2012 (0.8% of English queries were affected; confirmed, not announced)
23.   Panda Update 23, Dec. 21, 2012 (1.3% of English queries were affected; confirmed, announced)
24.   Panda Update 24, Jan. 22, 2013 (1.2% of English queries were affected; confirmed, announced)
25.   Panda Update 25, March 15, 2013 (confirmed as coming; not confirmed as having happened)
26.   Panda Update 26, July 18, 2013 (confirmed)

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