Confirmed: A Panda Refresh, Version #23
Update: Google has confirmed that
this is a Panda refresh. This would make it version 23 and it impacted about
1.3% of English based queries.
Google has confirmed rumors of
a Google update announcing on Twitter that they pushed out a Panda
data refresh today impacting about 1.3% of English queries.
This would make for the 23rd Panda
update since the first Panda algorithm was introduced on February 24, 2011.
Since then we had 22 updates both to the algorithm and also to the index or
data refreshes.
I should note, I am shocked they
pushed out a refresh before the holiday seasons. Last year they promised they
would not do a Panda update before the holidays. What a difference a year
makes.
A week ago, we reported on some very
strong signs of a Google Update last Thursday. Google told us there
was no update, not Panda and not anything. Webmasters feel Google is
either lying or are clueless
That being said, there are now new
reports in the same Webmaster World thread of an update hitting a few
hours ago in the Google search results.
