According to SEL, major Google Panda update happened on 27th September 2012 and almost 2.4% search engine queries for English language is impacted with this update. This is the 20th iteration of Panda update and changing the name convention for Panda updates, it’s call as Google Panda 20.
What’s new in Google Panda 20th Update?
Unlike all previous algorithm update, which was just a data refresh, this 20th Panda update includes more signals and it’s an algorithm update and not just a data refresh. Usually in a data refresh, very few percentage of search queries are affected but this time, it was a major algorithm update and affects 2.4% search queries. That means, more ranking signals added or removed in this update.
One major issues with this update Webmasters are facing is, distinguish between EMD and Panda update. Since, the time difference is hardly 24-48 hours and Webmasters who are using exact match domains to get SEO advantage, it’s hard to determine if they are affected by Panda or Exact match domain penalty.
Though, one thing which is very common about both the algorithm change is: Both are targeted to penalize low quality content and improve the ranking of high quality content and domains. So, if your blog traffic went down between 27th-29th September, you need to work on your Blog SEO, quality of articles and work on over all Social media optimization and branding of your blog.
Though, I really hate the latest update as I could see too many results from same domain and it’s decreasing the over all Google search quality. I hope it’s just related to few of my queries but if you are also seeing the same results as me, do let me know via comments. One thing which is certain after Panda, Penguin, EMD and other algorithm updates is Google values high quality Blog with quality content. More over, niche targeted blogs are easier to rank for small tail and Long tail Keywords.
If you suspect that you have been hit by Google Panda 20th, you can use Google penalty checker tool to find which algorithm update affected your blog. You can check out a timeline of Google algorithm updates here.
If you are not affected by EMD and affected by Panda algorithm update, I recommend you to check out following 5 articles, which will help you to understand how SEO works after Post panda and penguin world and how you can stay ahead of crowd:
What’s new in Google Panda 20th Update?
Unlike all previous algorithm update, which was just a data refresh, this 20th Panda update includes more signals and it’s an algorithm update and not just a data refresh. Usually in a data refresh, very few percentage of search queries are affected but this time, it was a major algorithm update and affects 2.4% search queries. That means, more ranking signals added or removed in this update.
One major issues with this update Webmasters are facing is, distinguish between EMD and Panda update. Since, the time difference is hardly 24-48 hours and Webmasters who are using exact match domains to get SEO advantage, it’s hard to determine if they are affected by Panda or Exact match domain penalty.
Though, one thing which is very common about both the algorithm change is: Both are targeted to penalize low quality content and improve the ranking of high quality content and domains. So, if your blog traffic went down between 27th-29th September, you need to work on your Blog SEO, quality of articles and work on over all Social media optimization and branding of your blog.
Though, I really hate the latest update as I could see too many results from same domain and it’s decreasing the over all Google search quality. I hope it’s just related to few of my queries but if you are also seeing the same results as me, do let me know via comments. One thing which is certain after Panda, Penguin, EMD and other algorithm updates is Google values high quality Blog with quality content. More over, niche targeted blogs are easier to rank for small tail and Long tail Keywords.
If you suspect that you have been hit by Google Panda 20th, you can use Google penalty checker tool to find which algorithm update affected your blog. You can check out a timeline of Google algorithm updates here.
If you are not affected by EMD and affected by Panda algorithm update, I recommend you to check out following 5 articles, which will help you to understand how SEO works after Post panda and penguin world and how you can stay ahead of crowd:
- How to recover from Google Panda Updates
- How to write content that Everyone will love : Post Panda World
- 5 Proven ways of Google Panda optimization
- Google Panda WordPress Plugins
- Post Panda/Penguin SEO strategy for Bloggers
Road to Panda recovery is going to be time-consuming but with few tweaks you can easily see the traffic difference in matter of a week. If you have never done SEO optimization of your WordPress blog, you can take advantage of my Personal Blog coaching or WordPress SEO service to make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly.
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