Showing posts with label google update history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google update history. Show all posts

Friday 28 June 2013

Google Panda and Penguin Updates History


Google has periodic updates or changes in its algorithm. Google Panda and Google Penguin are the major of them. Some of the important updates are:

Panda/Farmer — February 23, 2011

The first Panda update that was the second biggest update till now, affected around 6% of the search results worldwide. It seemed to crack down on thin content, content farms, sites with high ad-to-content ratios, and a number of other quality issues.
Panda 2.0 #2 — April 11, 2011

Bloggers thought that Panda was a one time thing, they could not have been more wrong, we know this now.
Panda 2.1 #3 — May 9, 2011
Another inconspicuous Panda update by Google.
Panda 2.2 #4 — June 21, 2011
Another inconspicuous Panda update by Google.
Panda 2.3 #5 — July 23, 2011
This was a very small Panda update by Google.
Panda 2.4 #6 — August 12, 2011
A huge Panda update that affected 8% of search results.This was more than 4 times bigger than the other Panda updates.
Panda 2.5 #7 — September 28, 2011
Another inconspicuous Panda update by Google.
Panda 3.1 #9 — November 18, 2011
Another inconspicuous Panda update by Google.
Panda 3.2 #10 — January 18, 2012
Another inconspicuous Panda update by Google. The only thing special about this was that it was the 10th update.
Panda 3.3 #11 — February 27, 2012
Another inconspicuous Panda update by Google.

Panda 3.4 #12 — March 23, 2012

Google announced this Panda Update through Twitter. I thought they would do it through other means.


Panda 3.5 #13 — April 19, 2012
In the excitation Google sent out another Panda update that affected less than 2% of search results, including other languages.
Penguin — April 24, 2012
The first official penguin updates that penalized sites that had over-optimized pages. This update boggled the minds of bloggers and webmasters as they had experienced such a thing before.
Panda 3.6 #14 — April 27, 2012
Google seemed to have been excited as they sent two Panda updates in a week for use bloggers to worry about.
Penguin 1.1 #2 — May 25, 2012
The first targeted Penguin Update.
Panda 3.7 #15 — June 8, 2012
A lowly affecting Panda update that caused less than 1% change in search results.
Panda 3.8 #16 — June 25, 2012
Another Panda Refresh by Google.
Link Warnings — July 19, 2012
Google again used Webmaster Tools to send out warnings to those who have bought backlinks etc.
Panda 3.9 #17 — July 24, 2012
Another inconspicuous Panda Update by Google.
DMCA Penalty — August 10, 2012
Google sent out messages from Web-master tools to let blogs with DMCA notices know that repeated violations would lead to sites being removed from the search index altogether.
Panda 3.9.1 #18 — August 20, 2012
Another Panda Refresh by Google.
Panda 3.9.2 #19 — September 18, 2012
Another Panda Refresh by Google.
Panda #20 — September 27, 2012
The only Panda Update out of the 65 search algorithm updates that took place.
Exact-Match Domain Update — September 27, 2012
This Google update made a difference to how Google ranked websites based on domain name matching keywords searched for to eliminate sub-domain and sub-directory spamming.
Penguin #3 — October 5, 2012
A very minor and almost insignificant Penguin update by Google.
 “Phantom” — May 9, 2013
Named phantom because it was never announced by Google, nor by anyone affiliated with Google. By SEO’s around the world agree that there was some update activity around this period which caused traffic drops in some sites and traffic increase in others.
Domain Crowding — May 21, 2013
Google believes that Domain Crowding is a form of spamming and hence wanted to address it quickly.
For this the algo experts at Google came up with the idea of curbing domain crowding with the help of an update to the Google search algorithm. This is what resulted from that.
Penguin 2.0 (#4) — May 22, 2013
An Official Penguin Update as stated by Google was released and it affected about 2% of all the English search results.This is something that we bloggers and webmasters would like to call - A big update.
Many sites saw huge drops in traffic around this period.
“Payday Loan” Update — June 11, 2013
Google created the PayDay Loan update to remove spammy sites from the most spammy niches such as Payday Loans, Education sites, Coupon sites etc.
Panda Dance — June 11, 2013
While not an actual Panda update, Matt Cutts made an important clarification at SMX Advanced, suggesting that Panda was still updating monthly, but each update rolled out over about 10 days. This was not the "everflux" many people had expected after Panda #25.