Here is our monthly recap of the changes made to Google that impact webmasters and SEO. Before we give the recap, I wanted to pull out of the WebmasterWorld thread the three things webmasters are talking about right now in terms of Google’s search results changes. They include:

Long Tail Sites Seeing Huge Fluctuations In Google Traffic
E-Commerce Sites Not Ranking As Well
Google’s Localization Changed (Google Venice)

In the past thirty days, the most important topics include the Panda 3.4 update, Matt Cutts announcing an overly SEO penalty and big blog network penalty.

Here are the stories that I pulled out over the past month which are important and related to Google SEO topics:

Google Panda 3.4 Rollout
Cutts: Google To Target Overly SEO’ed Sites Within Weeks
Google Penalizes Blog Networks, Did SEOs Use It To Hurt Competitors?
Updated: New Panda Refresh? Google Update Happening…
Google Webmaster Tools Notifying Of Traffic Drops
Panda Notifications Being Sent Via Google Webmasters Tools? Not Yet
New Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors Confuses
Google Rolling Out SSL Default Worldwide
Google Offers Free Hosts Advice On Being Penalty Free
Using The API To Get More Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Error Data
Search, Images, Maps & Now Google Play
Google Retired Geo Sitemap Support
Google: New Top Level Domains (TLD) Will Not Help Rankings
Not Provided To Spike When Firefox Adds Google SSL As Default
Google: Want More Organic Traffic? Buy Search Ads
Google’s Amit Singhal: Freebase Entities Grows From 12M To 200M
Google: When Search Results Suck, It’s Because We’re Stupid
Google On Pace To Hit Over 4 Million Messages To Webmasters This Year
Video: SEO Pagination By Google
450 Videos & 7 Million Views On Google Webmaster YouTube Channel
Video Of Inside A Search Quality Meeting

Last month’s recap can be found here.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.