Google representatives\u00a0confirmed\u00a0‘common core ranking algorithm updates’ that ran for more than one week. It was also officially confirmed that the update\u00a0‘It’s not Penguin’,\u00a0‘nor Panda’, although it could technically be connected to Panda given it’s recent integration into the core algo.<\/p>\n
Panda was\u00a0announced\u00a0to no longer be a spam filter but one of the ranking signals, part of the core algo. It seems though that Panda scores do not run in real time, but\u00a0on their own\u00a0and at different intervals. The precise date when Panda was incorporated is yet to be known.<\/p>\n
Although numerous ranking fluctuations were reported across the industry, no official confirmation of a Google update was received, other than\u00a0the usual\u00a0‘We make 100s of changes every year’.<\/p>\n
As scheduled, Google\u00a0announced\u00a0they’re starting the global roll out of their mobile-friendly update, affecting only search rankings on mobile devices. The update introduces mobile-friendliness as a ranking factor and applies to individual pages, not entire websites.<\/p>\n
After being criticized for a long time for not doing enough to fight piracy, Google finally\u00a0announced\u00a0an update its long neglected filtering system. Near the end of the month torrent tracker websites took a dive in the search results marking the rollout of the Pirate Update.<\/p>\n
Google\u00a0announced\u00a0a new Penguin refresh, that would be slowly rolling-out over the course of a few weeks and would be impacting less than 1% of English queries.<\/p>\n
Google made a change in the display of the News-box results, and later announced they had expanded the news websites links set, including Reddit feeds.<\/p>\n
Google announced\u00a0a new Panda update, that would ‘slowly rollout’ in a two weeks interval. The new update aims to identify low-quality content more precisely and would affect 3 to 5% of queries, depending on location.<\/p>\n
John Mueller of Google Webmaster Tools\u00a0announced\u00a0that Google will completely stop showing authorship information in search results – both author photos and bylines.<\/p>\n
Following several months of testing, Google\u00a0officially announced\u00a0their decision to start using HTTPS as a ranking signal. Currently the update would affect less than 1% of queries, but we should expect for HTTPS to gain weight over time and lose its ‘very lightweight signal’ status.<\/p>\n
A major local algorithm update was released, aiming to improve local search results. Although the core changes brought by the new algo are ‘behind the scenes’, Google announced that it ‘ties deeper’ into their core search algorithm.<\/p>\n
Google\u00a0announces\u00a0the drop of profile photo and circle count from authorship in search results, as consequence of their decision to clean up the visual design of search results.<\/p>\n
Soon after Payday Loan 2.0, Matt Cutts\u00a0announced\u00a0the third version of the algorithm, designed to go after different signals. While 2.0 is targeting specific websites, spammy queries are the objective of this new update.<\/p>\n
Matt Cutts\u00a0announced\u00a0the release of a major Panda update, affecting different languages to different degrees. For English-language the amount of affected queries revolving around 7,5%.<\/p>\n
After days of speculation, Google\u00a0has confirmed\u00a0a new update to their Payday Loan Algorithm, unrelated to Panda or Penguin, targeting ‘very spammy queries’.<\/p>\n
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