20th Google Panda Algorithm Update Fairly Major

[djbaxter]

20th Google Panda Algorithm Update: Fairly Major
Oct 4, 2012
by Barry Schwartz

Yesterday we broke the news that there was an other update that overlapped the EMD update that we had on friday targeting exact match domains.

I wasn't sure what that update was, so I emailed our friends at Google and Matt Cutts responded that it was a Panda update that began to roll out on Thursday and has been continuing to roll out even today and will likely finish rolling out through the weekend.

This is not a basic data refresh to the Panda algorithm, it is an update to the algorithm itself. Meaning, new sites and old sites are more likely to be impacted even without making any changes. In fact, Matt said 2.4% of English queries were impacted and 0.5% of non-English queries were impacted.

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[jcorkern]

Yeah, they hit EMD's, ran a Panda update and a Penguin refresh, all at the same time from what I was reading on Danny Sullivan's blog. I seen some pretty major increases so far on some of my newer sites and the older ones I have at no 1 have been solid as a rock thus far.