Is The New Google Panda 3.2 Happening Now?

It has been quite some time since (9 weeks) since the latest Google Panda Algorithm was updated.

Now the rumor is starting up again. I was reading a WebmasterWorld thread about a possible update of the algorithm that Google is pushing out.

This would be version 3.2 or higher.

In particular, the thread discuss about the increasing of traffic, indexing changes and so on – specifically on Panda suffering web sites.

onebuyone says:

“40% traffic increase for me today, not sure if it is thanks to hundreds of small changes made on my website or some one big lucky change in algo.“

Another interesting answer was:

“Yeah, some movement on one of my pandalized subdomains. Not for sure until the stats settle, but it looks like on the 19th of January Google “accidentally” gave back the traffic they took on February 24th, 2011. An increase in traffic of about 80%!“

While it seems like there was some movement, but this doesn’t mean it could be a Panda update. Also, Matt Cutts has not confirmed anything yet. He is in India right now, so I am not sure if we will have an update these days.

Past Panda Updates:

• Panda 3.1 on November 18th
• Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
• Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
• Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
• Panda 2.5 on September 28th
• Panda 2.4 in August
• Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd.
• Panda 2.2 on June 18th or so.
• Panda 2.1 on May 9th or so.
• Panda 2.0 on April 11th or so.
• Panda 1.0 on February 24th

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Update: Google sent to seroundtable.com team a statement confirming there was a minor update, just a data refresh of the Panda update. Google added:

“We’re continuing to iterate on our Panda algorithm as part of our commitment to returning high-quality sites to Google users. This most recent update is one of the over 500 changes we make to our ranking algorithms each year.“

Source: seroundtable.com

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