March 2012 Google Webmaster Report

It is that time of the month again, where we provide you a recap of the past months happenings in regards to Google & SEO related topics.

An ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has a lot of nice nuggets on new things but this time, it does not have all that much. You have the usual fluctuation chatter and Panda discussion but that is about it so far.

The main things in the past thirty days or so include Panda 3.3, Google shutting off a link factor, and a PageRank update. But a lot took place in the past 30 days, here are the links:

• Confirmed: Google Panda 3.3
• Poll: Which Factor Did Google Turn Off For Link Evaluation?
• Google PageRank Update: February 2012
• 40 More Google Search Quality Updates From Google
• February 17: Latest Google Search Quality Updates
• Video Rich Snippet Markup With Schema.org Now Preferred By Google
• Google Panda Now A Year Old But Only 13% Fully Recovered
• Google Changes Navigation Bar Again
• Confirmed: Concert Rich Snippets Showing In Search Results
• Google Search Requiring Cookies? Google Says No
• Will Socially Awkward Sites Suffer In Google In The Long Run?
• Google Webmaster Tools Tries To Simplify Search Queries Report
• Google Webmaster Tools +1 Metrics Maintenance
• Google: One URL With Special Stylesheet Is Easy Mobile SEO
• Removing A Sitemap File Likely Won't Hurt Your Rankings
• Google Indexing Issue With Custom Blogger Domains?
• Google: Cookieless Domain Have No Direct SEO Effect
• OMG: Google's Privacy Policy Went Live
• Google: SEO Isn't Good For Users Or The Internet

For last month's report, see the February 2012 Google Webmaster Report.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.