Google Panda Update 4.1 in 2014
September 26, 2014
Google has announced that the latest version of its Panda Update — a filter designed to penalize “thin” or poor content from ranking well — has been released.
Google said in a post on Google+ that a “slow rollout” began earlier this week and will continue into next week, before being complete. Google said that depending on location, about 3%-to-5% of search queries will be affected.
Google says, it will allow more high-quality small and medium-sized sites to rank better.
Some of the example for direct traffic since Panda update (can also be due to other website related issues too):
Some websites where drops has been noticed:
| Domain | Before | After | Change in % |
| yellow.com | 16383 | 3413 | -79% |
| similarsites.com | 118771 | 25197 | -79% |
| free-coloring-pages.com | 12268 | 296 | -76% |
| dwyer-inst.com | 13225 | 3229 | -76% |
| issitedownrightnow.com | 69354 | 18376 | -74% |
| updatestar.com | 13232 | 3788 | -71% |
| office365.com | 29365 | 8781 | -70% |
Some websites where improvement has been noticed:
| Domain | Before | After | Change in % |
| comdotgame.com | 2632 | 38231 | 1353% |
| hongkiat.com | 135 | 68372 | 406% |
| babble.com | 8963 | 42916 | 379% |
| rd.com | 17209 | 71434 | 315% |
| mediamass.net | 6839 | 27876 | 308% |
| hotelguides.com | 8563 | 32957 | 285% |
| yourtango.com | 30624 | 109148 | 256% |
| moreofit.com | 6431 | 22864 | 256% |
| celebrity-gossip.net | 10727 | 38068 | 255% |
| spoonful.com | 2813 | 89573 | 218% |
The rollout also means that new sites not previously hit by Panda might get impacted.
As a conclusion with searchmetrics.com, drops has been seen with the websites which are often games or lyrics portals as well as websites dealing with medical issues and content – to cut it short (here I am repeating myself): in general, it hit pages with thin content.
Source: searchmetrics.com
One Comment
Very interesting article . How to know what were the changes ?