It has been over 9 weeks since we had an official Google Panda update. Now I am seeing some chatter in the forums of a possible sign that Google had updated the Panda algorithm and pushed a new one out – this would be version 3.2 or higher.
A WebmasterWorld thread has some uptick in discussion around ranking changes, indexing changes and so on – specifically on Panda suffering web sites. One webmaster said:
Others recently responded saying:
There is always a bunch of Panda rumors floating around, but it seems like there was an uptick recently in that discussion. Of course, this doesn’t mean it was a Panda update – but in this case, I am thinking it might be.
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
There was a rumored Panda 3.2 update during the holiday season but Google never confirmed it.
Matt Cutts is in India now, so I am not sure if we will see a confirmation or not from him until much later.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Update: Google sent me a statement confirming there was an update in the past week or so. It was a minor update, with no new ranking signals, but rather just a data refresh of the Panda update. Google added:
