So how the Google panda changes the search experience?
As per Google, the new changed algorithm is build with more advanced system and much improved ranking filter. That means, Google is now stricter on spam and low quality content sites. Panda’s design aims to lower the page rank of those low quality content sites and returns higher quality sites near the top of the search results. The question of What Is Google Panda Update is by each webmaster these days due to their site ranking affected in any way.
But the update result says something else. During the Panda update large number of sites mostly trusted and well branded was too got badly affected, making everyone in confusion. Their search visibility, organic traffic through Google was drastically reduced by almost 50%.
List of Major Sites which were affected on recent Google Panda Updates:-
List of all confirmed Google Panda Update from 2000 to 2016 and still 2017 Google Panda Update is coming to ruin some scam blogger. So see here google panda update list 2016 and look if you are not affected by panda update and what was the major reason that affected on that date in which year.
New Complete Google panda update list 2016
2016 Updates
Mobile-friendly 2 — May 12, 2016
Unnamed Major Update — May 10, 2016
AdWords Shake-up — February 23, 2016
Unnamed Update — January 8, 2016
2015 Updates
RankBrain* — October 26, 2015
Panda 4.2 (#28) — July 17, 2015
The Quality Update — May 3, 2015
Mobile Update AKA “Mobilegeddon” — April 22, 2015
Unnamed Update — February 4, 2015
2014 Updates
Pigeon Expands (UK, CA, AU) — December 22, 2014
Penguin Everflux — December 10, 2014
Pirate 2.0 — October 21, 2014
Penguin 3.0 — October 17, 2014
“In The News” Box — October 2014
Panda 4.1 (#27) — September 23, 2014
Authorship Removed — August 28, 2014
HTTPS/SSL Update — August 6, 2014
Pigeon — July 24, 2014
Authorship Photo Drop — June 28, 2014
Payday Loan 3.0 — June 12, 2014
Panda 4.0 (#26) — May 19, 2014
Payday Loan 2.0 — May 16, 2014
Unnamed Update — March 24, 2014
Page Layout #3 — February 6, 2014
2013 Updates
Authorship Shake-up — December 19, 2013
Unnamed Update — December 17, 2013
Unnamed Update — November 14, 2013
Penguin 2.1 (#5) — October 4, 2013
Hummingbird — August 20, 2013
In-depth Articles — August 6, 2013
Unnamed Update — July 26, 2013
Knowledge Graph Expansion — July 19, 2013
Panda Recovery — July 18, 2013
Multi-Week Update — June 27, 2013
“Payday Loan” Update — June 11, 2013
Panda Dance — June 11, 2013
Penguin 2.0 (#4) — May 22, 2013
Domain Crowding — May 21, 2013
“Phantom” — May 9, 2013
Panda #25 — March 14, 2013
Panda #24 — January 22, 2013
2012 Updates
Panda #23 — December 21, 2012
Knowledge Graph Expansion — December 4, 2012
Panda #22 — November 21, 2012
Panda #21 — November 5, 2012
Page Layout #2 — October 9, 2012
Penguin #3 — October 5, 2012
August/September 65-Pack — October 4, 2012
Panda #20 — September 27, 2012
Exact-Match Domain (EMD) Update — September 27, 2012
Panda 3.9.2 (#19) — September 18, 2012
Panda 3.9.1 (#18) — August 20, 2012
7-Result SERPs — August 14, 2012
June/July 86-Pack — August 10, 2012
DMCA Penalty (“Pirate”) — August 10, 2012
Panda 3.9 (#17) — July 24, 2012
Link Warnings — July 19, 2012
Panda 3.8 (#16) — June 25, 2012
Panda 3.7 (#15) — June 8, 2012
May 39-Pack — June 7, 2012
Penguin 1.1 (#2) — May 25, 2012
Knowledge Graph — May 16, 2012
April 52-Pack — May 4, 2012
Panda 3.6 (#14) — April 27, 2012
Penguin — April 24, 2012
Panda 3.5 (#13) — April 19, 2012
Parked Domain Bug — April 16, 2012
March 50-Pack — April 3, 2012
Panda 3.4 (#12) — March 23, 2012
Search Quality Video — March 12, 2012
Venice — February 27, 2012
February 40-Pack (2) — February 27, 2012
Panda 3.3 (#11) — February 27, 2012
February 17-Pack — February 3, 2012
Ads Above The Fold — January 19, 2012
Panda 3.2 (#10) — January 18, 2012
Search + Your World — January 10, 2012
January 30-Pack — January 5, 2012
2011 Updates
December 10-Pack — December 2011
Panda 3.1 (#9) — November 18, 2011
10-Pack of Updates — November 14, 2011
Freshness Update — November 3, 2011
Query Encryption — October 18, 2011
Panda “Flux” (#8) — October 5, 2011
Panda 2.5 (#7) — September 28, 2011
516 Algo Updates — September 21, 2011
Pagination Elements — September 15, 2011
Expanded Sitelinks — August 16, 2011
Panda 2.4 (#6) — August 12, 2011
Panda 2.3 (#5) — July 23, 2011
Google+ — June 28, 2011
Panda 2.2 (#4) — June 21, 2011
Schema.org — June 2, 2011
Panda 2.1 (#3) — May 9, 2011
Panda 2.0 (#2) — April 11, 2011
The +1 Button — March 30, 2011
Panda/Farmer — February 23, 2011
Attribution Update — January 28, 2011
Overstock.com Penalty — January 2011
2010 Updates
Negative Reviews — December 2010
Social Signals — December 2010
Instant Previews — November 2010
Google Instant — September 2010
Brand Update — August 2010
Caffeine (Rollout) — June 2010
May Day — May 2010
Google Places — April 2010
2009 Updates
Real-time Search — December 2009
Caffeine (Preview) — August 2009
Vince — February 2009
Rel-canonical Tag — February 2009
2008 Updates
Google Suggest — August 2008
Dewey — April 2008
2007 Updates
Buffy — June 2007
Universal Search — May 2007
2006 Updates
False Alarm — December 2006
Supplemental Update — November 2006
2005 Updates
Big Daddy — December 2005
Google Local/Maps — October 2005
Jagger — October 2005
Gilligan — September 2005
XML Sitemaps — June 2005
Personalized Search — June 2005
Bourbon — May 2005
Allegra — February 2005
Nofollow — January 2005
2004 Updates
Google IPO — August 2004
Brandy — February 2004
Austin — January 2004
2003 Updates
Florida — November 2003
Supplemental Index — September 2003
Fritz — July 2003
Esmeralda — June 2003
Dominic — May 2003
Cassandra — April 2003
Boston — February 2003
2002 Updates
1st Documented Update — September 2002
2000 Updates
Google Toolbar — December 2000
And lots more…..
From the above chart it can be concluded that sites which basically practice on article farming were mostly affected.
P.S:- Date is obtained from Over at Sistrix.
In between 2011 and 2012 many major Google Panda updates took place, as for reference see the table below:-
So, Did Google Panda Succeed?
Well, saying “Yes” would totally be favoritism. There still a lots of loophole in the system and its ranking factor, still the sites with low quality content are ranking high in search result. There’s always a scope for improvement and so in Panda algorithm too, but we can see drastic improvement in and around blogospheres with every webmaster taking great attention on content to avoid the Panda affects. The new 2016 Google Panda Update have affected your site ranking. Feedback us.
Since this blog has just recently setup so I wouldn’t be able share my personal panda affect.
What’s your view on the Google’s new algorithm? Did the Google Panda update was Boon or Bane for your site? Let us all we know….
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