Google Panda Updates 2011
I’m tracking a page on this site that, all of a sudden, in April 2011, seemed to have a lot of trouble ranking for terms it ranked well for maybe years… even though it’s well cited, original content. I wonder if it has something to do with Google PANDA. I’ve purposely left it alone to see what happens……
Google Panda, if you don’t know, is what seo (and Google employees) are calling the latest changes to how Google ranks pages and SEL have a good round up of when they think it hit sites…..
Google may have rolled them out just a bit earlier or later than those exact days. The bigger issue is that you can see a trend developing. About every month, Google reruns its Panda algorithm. Each time Panda is run, there’s a chance some hit from the last update will improve, while other sites might see traffic drops. In between updates, changes people may make specifically in hopes of fixing a Panda problem won’t show any impact until the next update is run.
So far, the Google Panda update schedule has been like this:
- Panda Update 1.0: Feb. 24, 2011
- Panda Update 2.0: April 11, 2011 (about 7 weeks later)
- Panda Update 2.1: May 10, 2011 (about 4 weeks later)
- Panda Update 2.2: June 16, 2011 (about 5 weeks later)
- Panda Update 2.3: July 23, 2011 (about 5 weeks later - The 2.1 to 2.3 dates are approximate.)
Those later dates seem to correlate a little with the graph above, which makes my page all the more interesting, as I did do a few things to that page back in the day to test some stuff…..
I’ll post on it if I get some definitive answers…..
PS Still on holiday so comments closed. I will be on Twitter or Google Plus though….
Written by Shaun Anderson
