Google has announced on Twitter that they pushed out a Panda refresh yesterday morning that impacted “fewer than 0.7% of queries.”

Most refreshes impact less than 1% of the search queries. So this is just a refresh, despite how much I’d love to name it 4.0.

The previous Panda refresh was on August 20, 2012 and labeled 3.9.1.

Danny Sullivan goes really deep into the past updates on Search Engine Land.

Here is Google’s tweet:

So the Panda update we thought we saw last week, was not a Panda update, it was a diversification update. Although, in that update, many Panda victims did claim recovery. So who knows what Google was or was not testing.

Past Google Panda Update:

Panda 3.9.2 on September 18th
Panda 3.9.1 on August 20th
Panda 3.9 on July 24th
Panda 3.8 on June 25th
Panda 3.7 on June 9th
Panda 3.6 on April 27th
Panda 3.5 on April 19th
Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
Panda 3.2 on about January 15thPanda 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

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