When Google first launched panda in 2011, its main aim was to degrade the many websites that have been rated with poor user experience. The launch saw a significant impact of the search results of 11.8% of the sites in Google’s index. In July 24th 2012, Google announced that they pushed out the Panda 3.9 refresh. By this time, there were rumors circulating on the net, that Google was about to do a panda refresh. However, Google denied rumors of a Panda update. Google stated that the new update had impacted 1%of search results which is significant. However it is not so remarkable, compared to the higher percentage seen when Google first launched Panda or when Panda was introduced in Korea and Japan and the impact on search results were 5% of all indexed sites. [Read more…] about Google Keeps SEOs on Their Toes
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