Friday, April 6, 2012

Panda 3.1  -   18th November   2011 - Minor Panda algorithm data refresh (affects <1% of all searches).
o   References:- http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/ten-recent-algorithm-changes.html

·         Panda 3.2  -   15th January 2012 - algorithmic change that looks at the layout of a webpage and the amount of content you see on the page once you click on a result
o   This algorithmic change affects sites that go much further to load the top of the page with ads to an excessive degree or that make it hard to find the actual original content on the page.
o   References : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html

·         Panda 3.3  -  27th February 2012 - 40 changes reported including related searches, sitelinks, indexing, SafeSearch, site query update, link evaluation, improved local results  and more
o   References:- http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html

·         Panda 3.4   -  23rd March 2012 – 50 changes reported for March including Improvements to handling of symbols for indexing, Sitelinks data refresh, Better indexing of profile pages, Improvements to results for navigational queries, +1 button in search for more countries and domains
o  References:- http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/04/search-quality-highlights-50-changes.html