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All signs are pointing to a Google update being pushed out yesterday afternoon into today. The speculation across the SEO forums is that this is the Panda refresh we were expecting to see this weekend.
Google's Matt Cutts said we should expect to see a refresh of Panda sometime this Friday or Monday. It seems like the Panda update started actually yesterday afternoon and is continuing to propagate throughout now.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has dozens of SEOs and Webmasters claiming rank changes for better or worse. Here are some examples:
Is there an update happening? we're down maybe 40% or so since few hours ago.
Im seeing some movement for my main keyword, go Panda go.
I'm seeing signs of a Panda update here in the UK. Or Panda everflux. That's going to kill the update talk somewhat isn't it...
I've also received several emails and comments about a possible Google Panda update.
Google has not yet confirmed this update, nor do I expect them to confirm it since Matt Cutts also said that the future Panda updates will be more rolling updates.
This may be the last manual Panda refresh we report - Panda #25 - welcome.
Past Google Panda Update:
- Panda #25 on March 15, 2013
- Panda #24 on January 22, 2013
- Panda #23 on December 21, 2012
- Panda #22 on November 21st
- Panda #22 on November 21st
- Panda #21 on November 5th
- Panda #20 on September 27th
- Panda 3.9.2 on September 18th
- Panda 3.9.1 on August 20th
- Panda 3.9 on July 24th
- Panda 3.8 on June 25th
- Panda 3.7 on June 9th
- Panda 3.6 on April 27th
- Panda 3.5 on April 19th
- Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
- Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
- Panda 3.2 on about January 15th
- Panda 3.1 on November 18th
- Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
- Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
- Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
- Panda 2.5 on September 28th
- Panda 2.4 in August
- Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd.
- Panda 2.2 on June 18th or so.
- Panda 2.1 on May 9th or so.
- Panda 2.0 on April 11th or so.
- Panda 1.0 on February 24th
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Google Won't Confirm or Deny: I received word back from Google that since future updates will be rolling updates, Google is unlikely, going forward to confirm or deny Panda refreshes. I have a more detailed story on that over here.
Comments:
Mike Bayes
03/15/2013 01:07 pm
Seing nothing this morning on the Local sites or National. hmmm
bartt4
03/15/2013 01:32 pm
Panda #25 on March 15, 2012 - wrong date
Vikash Khetan
03/15/2013 02:05 pm
Yes I think the update is very much in progress, I have been observing some severe ranking fluctuations since last night (Indian time)
Yakezie
03/15/2013 02:27 pm
Don't see a thing and I've got a sample set of about 500k pageviews a month.
Brendon
03/15/2013 04:59 pm
I don't see anything with top keywords happening. People could just be getting drunk early.
Josh
03/15/2013 05:58 pm
We've been steady all week. Almost identical numbers each day, which is uncommon. But nothing drastic or too, too crazy... Keeping the fingers crossed.
ddsssdd
03/15/2013 08:27 pm
to those guys who arent seeing anything, it means u don't receive enough traffic. I for instance receive 41k per day. and can see fluctuations. you guys who get 50 hits a day, don't even bother
Pat
03/15/2013 08:45 pm
wow - I still feel that I cannot really tell fluctuations with my 3 million impressions per day. There are so many other things than Google. Holidays, carnival, Easter, sports ...
Sabrina Sabino
03/15/2013 09:25 pm
Tell 'em like it is, Pat!
SEO
03/15/2013 11:10 pm
it will crush us as a rock
Fionn Downhill
03/16/2013 01:55 am
Nothing happening have to wait until Monday I guess.
mad.madrasi
03/16/2013 03:34 am
LOL. ditto here. Cheers!
Subhadip
03/16/2013 05:12 am
has it affected the indian sites also? Cuz today I see a lot of improvement for many of my keywords :)
V.C. Sharma
03/16/2013 05:26 am
waiting for change to see. Still not see any change to results.
Govind Singh
03/16/2013 06:07 am
I have not seen any changes in ranking....
Rohit Kumar
03/16/2013 06:58 am
I observed some changes fir my kwds..from last knight
Steva Nova
03/16/2013 07:27 am
My website crashed form 1 page to 7 page in Google search... =( Does anybody have any information about his google update?
chirag sachdeva
03/16/2013 07:57 am
My top ranking keywords got affected, Panda starts playing with my website..
Steva Nova
03/16/2013 09:01 am
lol, the update is here!
Madhav Tripathi
03/16/2013 10:45 am
My website is already facing unknown penalty and my traffic is 20 to 25% less. Now I have to see how will affect Panda 25.
Naveen Kr. Jha
03/16/2013 11:14 am
I have seen affect of panda #25. My website ranking gone down.
Michael Gocia
03/16/2013 11:29 am
Waiting from long time for it, Already i am facing problems in my keywords ranking need to update to new strategies from panda update.
SamerKurdi
03/17/2013 08:10 pm
Yup, another inexplicable penalty, with some of the lowest search traffic in a couple of years. To think I actually had hopes that Panda might push us up rather than down. After being hit three times last year, I didn't think another search degrade was actually possible.
seoshankar
03/18/2013 04:30 am
Since it has happened on Weekends need to have a detailed look
Reena Rawat
03/18/2013 06:46 am
I havn't seen any changes in my website ranking.
oa ultimate
03/18/2013 08:17 am
I saw a small movement today, not sure if it was affected by the update or not since it only a bit higher than the normal increment path.
Easybridging
03/18/2013 11:02 am
The only noticeable thing for me is that sites that were blitz in the very first panda update have started to come back. From nowhere to page 14 of the most competitive phrase in our industry. That is so far, if it really is an update.
Mebel Minimalis
03/18/2013 02:11 pm
it will destroy us as a writer
sara
03/21/2013 09:56 am
Backlinks has decreased a lot via ahref tool.
Henry Mangult
03/23/2013 09:41 pm
Yeah Panda come on I have achieved 105% growth since the new update :)) I am always extra natural :))
vishal
03/30/2013 12:27 pm
Really Google panda suck many websites
Bhupendra Chahar
04/02/2013 09:55 am
I have not seen any changes in ranking....
Kriss
04/02/2013 04:13 pm
Got a little hit by the last update. Couple pages were on first pages, and not they are 2nd or 3rd. But the strangest thing is all content is 100% unique, I add new articles on daily basis, all is fresh, authentic and I only have 1 small adsense ad. Go figure whats wrong.. Thanks for the post!
tariq
04/04/2013 06:25 am
google original content holders sites struck off from search but copy masters sites ranking up why??? google new search algorithm fuck off..
Social Media Training
05/02/2013 07:22 pm
Did anyone note any major implications from this update?
webdecorum
05/03/2013 01:00 pm
my also