Google has confirmed with us that on Thursday, September 27th, they released a Panda algorithm update – this would be the 20th Panda update and thus we are naming it Panda 20. This is a fairly major Panda update that impacts 2.4% of English search queries and is still rolling out.
Late Friday afternoon, Google announced a exact match domain update that removed the chances of a low-quality exact match domain from ranking well in Google. But over the weekend, many non-exact match domain site owners noticed their rankings dropped as well. What was it?
Google confirmed that they pushed out a new Panda algorithm update that isn’t just a data refresh but an algorithm update. Google told us this “affects about 2.4% of English queries to a degree that a regular user might notice.”
Panda Update History
We’ve had a string of updates since then, as follows, along with the percentage of queries Google said would be impacted:
Panda Update 1.0, Feb. 24, 2011 (11.8% of queries; announced; English in US only)
Panda Update 2.0, April 11, 2011 (2% of queries; announced; rolled out in English internationally)
Panda Update 2.1, May 10, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
Panda Update 2.2, June 16, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
Panda Update 2.3, July 23, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
Panda Update 2.4, Aug. 12, 2011 (6-9% of queries in many non-English languages; announced)
Panda Update 2.5, Sept. 28, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
Panda Update 3.0, Oct. 19, 2011 (about 2% of queries; belatedly confirmed)
Panda Update 3.1, Nov. 18, 2011: (less than 1% of queries; announced)
Panda Update 3.2, Jan. 18, 2012 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
Panda Update 3.3, Feb. 27, 2012 (no change given; announced)
Panda Update 3.4, March 23, 2012 (about 1.6% of queries impacted; announced)
Panda Update 3.5, April 19, 2012 (no change given; belatedly revealed)
Panda Update 3.6, April 27, 2012: (no change given; confirmed; first update within days of another)
Panda Update 3.7, June 9, 2012: (1% of queries; belatedly announced)
Panda Update 3.8, June 25, 2012: (about 1% of queries; announced)
Panda Update 3.9, July 24, 2012:(about 1% of queries; announced)
Panda Update 3.91, Aug. 20, 2012: (about 1% of queries; belatedly announced)
Panda Update 3.92, Sept. 18, 2012: (less than 0.7% of queries; announced)
Google Panda Update 20 Released, 2.4% Of English Queries Impacted












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