Ever since the time Google’s Panda came into being and took hold over Google’s algorithm bringing about a serious change in its rules for giving rank to the sites, there have been plenty of information related to what it stands for, what it does, what it doesn’t, how it affects and whom, and so on.
But doesn’t it confuse you at times to hop around from one page to another across the internet as just one page doesn’t fulfill your requirements and gets all your doubts answered? Well, if it does, you don’t need to hop around anymore, as you have come to the right place where you’ll find all possible information compiled together to bring you a comprehensive reference guide book.
The second update came along with Panda 2.0 which was released on April 11, 2011. With this update Panda got global as the update affected all the English language queries across the world. It also started up targeting the long tailed queries.
Then, there came Panda 2.1 in May 9, 2011 which aimed at extirpating those content scraping sites which were leaving behind the original sites from where they had copied their content.
Panda 2.2 came out on June 18, 2011 with an aim to put a check on the B2B websites. Many of the B2B websites remained untouched but at the same time there were some badly hit by the Panda attack.
After this came Panda 2.3 and 2.4 on July 22, 2011 and August 12, 2011 respectively. 2.3 came with mute steps of which hardly anybody got any sign but once it came, there was a fear and confusion among the webmasters. This update made it easy to distinguish the high quality sites from the lower ones.
And at the same time, Panda 2.4 targeted all the queries ruled over by US or UK. It helped the popular brands making prominent place in the search results which were earlier subdued by the sites with lesser prominence. This update was also considered to have shown brand protectionism from Google. After this update Panda became global by all means.
Pretty soon came Panda2.5 hitting the internet on September 28, 2011 and subsequently came updates 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 on October 5, 2011 and October 13, 2011 respectively.
These updates touched those sites and pages which were previously left untouched. These updates hit even those sites which somehow managed to come up after the update 2.2 and 2.3. This time even the videos weren’t spared. Several sites reported to have lost about 80% of their traffic.
Now be ready to face Panda 2.6+ and some other higher updates in the future, as Google may come up with these anytime in the future.
Contracting and expanding link graphs are quite common with almost all the sites but after the Panda attack, sites faced a dramatic contraction of the link graphs. Sites found that hundreds of their links that were already indexed got lost from their profile forever.
The most badly effected were the content driven larger sites. Some site owners tried to hide away the pages so that they won’t get indexed and attacked by Panda. Several site owners went over to send their great number of sub-directories to the robots.txt but sadly, this didn’t help instead proved more fatal.
The next thing that got hurt by the Panda attack was the anchor texts used by the web masters in their link building activities. After the recent attack, anchor text got kind of partially hurt however, it is being predicted that the future updates are going to hurt the anchor texts some more perhaps far more dramatically, you never know. So, your link building activities need serious considerations. One needs to check the way in which they use the anchor texts. Those who are not keeping in mind the usefulness of semantics and aren’t using related and relevant anchor texts are going to be hit most badly.
And finally, the content that you have on your site it has been the very first thing that Panda checked out before hitting the sites. Duplicating the content from other places will mark you as a content farmer and hit your site pretty severely.
But doesn’t it confuse you at times to hop around from one page to another across the internet as just one page doesn’t fulfill your requirements and gets all your doubts answered? Well, if it does, you don’t need to hop around anymore, as you have come to the right place where you’ll find all possible information compiled together to bring you a comprehensive reference guide book.
What’s the aim of Google’s Panda?The main aim of Panda is to bring the sites offering high quality content to the top by awarding them better ranking and at the same time doing away with the sites and pages offering low quality content by demoting or removing them from the better positions on the result pages.
How many Panda Updates till now?The first update came up with Panda 1.0 which was out on February 24, 2011. This did away with the scraper sites and content factory types that were involved in content farming or offering low valued useless content that did no good but only took away the search result space.
The second update came along with Panda 2.0 which was released on April 11, 2011. With this update Panda got global as the update affected all the English language queries across the world. It also started up targeting the long tailed queries.
Then, there came Panda 2.1 in May 9, 2011 which aimed at extirpating those content scraping sites which were leaving behind the original sites from where they had copied their content.
Panda 2.2 came out on June 18, 2011 with an aim to put a check on the B2B websites. Many of the B2B websites remained untouched but at the same time there were some badly hit by the Panda attack.
After this came Panda 2.3 and 2.4 on July 22, 2011 and August 12, 2011 respectively. 2.3 came with mute steps of which hardly anybody got any sign but once it came, there was a fear and confusion among the webmasters. This update made it easy to distinguish the high quality sites from the lower ones.
And at the same time, Panda 2.4 targeted all the queries ruled over by US or UK. It helped the popular brands making prominent place in the search results which were earlier subdued by the sites with lesser prominence. This update was also considered to have shown brand protectionism from Google. After this update Panda became global by all means.
Pretty soon came Panda2.5 hitting the internet on September 28, 2011 and subsequently came updates 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 on October 5, 2011 and October 13, 2011 respectively.
These updates touched those sites and pages which were previously left untouched. These updates hit even those sites which somehow managed to come up after the update 2.2 and 2.3. This time even the videos weren’t spared. Several sites reported to have lost about 80% of their traffic.
Now be ready to face Panda 2.6+ and some other higher updates in the future, as Google may come up with these anytime in the future.
What Panda can do to you? How you’ll stop that from happening?When it came, people were only concerned about the content and thought that taming their content will tame the Panda and help them stay safe from its attacks. Yes, your content has the major role to play and it just can’t be ignored at all but Panda has some other concerns as well.
Contracting and expanding link graphs are quite common with almost all the sites but after the Panda attack, sites faced a dramatic contraction of the link graphs. Sites found that hundreds of their links that were already indexed got lost from their profile forever.
The most badly effected were the content driven larger sites. Some site owners tried to hide away the pages so that they won’t get indexed and attacked by Panda. Several site owners went over to send their great number of sub-directories to the robots.txt but sadly, this didn’t help instead proved more fatal.
The next thing that got hurt by the Panda attack was the anchor texts used by the web masters in their link building activities. After the recent attack, anchor text got kind of partially hurt however, it is being predicted that the future updates are going to hurt the anchor texts some more perhaps far more dramatically, you never know. So, your link building activities need serious considerations. One needs to check the way in which they use the anchor texts. Those who are not keeping in mind the usefulness of semantics and aren’t using related and relevant anchor texts are going to be hit most badly.
And finally, the content that you have on your site it has been the very first thing that Panda checked out before hitting the sites. Duplicating the content from other places will mark you as a content farmer and hit your site pretty severely.
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