Official Google Update Thread - March 2013

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Do you have a speculation about when Google will update?

• Do you think there has been a backlinks update?
• Do you think there has been a PR update?
• Are you seeing Google fluctuations?
• Do you think there has been an algorithm update?

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You may want to start with a basic understanding about Google updates before posting in this thread.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whats-an-update/

ADMIN NOTE: Please keep in mind that this is a DISCUSSION thread. It is NOT a debate thread.

[johnywalter]

A Panda Update Coming This Friday Or Monday

Matt also announced there will be a Panda algorithm update this coming Friday (March 16th) or Monday (March 18th). The last Panda update was version 24 on January 22nd, which is one of the longer spans of time between Panda refreshes we’ve seen in a long time.

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bring it on!

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Late last night Matt Cutts was on stage at SMX talking about Penguin and Panda updates. When asked about Panda updates and when will be the next one, Matt Cutts confirms a Panda update will be coming this Friday or Monday at the latest.

Matt Cutts Confirms Panda Update Coming This Friday
March 12, 2013

[Franc Tireur]

Cutts said that it will be a large Penguin update in 2013.

I am glad to be out of the game now, good luck to the webmasters.

[Elvina123]

Matt replied in response - Reputation will matter more and more as we move forward. Over time, we (Google) will be caring more about identity and social. He’s also saying it would be great to see commenters on blogs who have authority to get credit for that also. Matt is recommending implementing authorship on your site.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Last night at SMX West, Google's Matt Cutts announced that the Panda algorithm will be more of a rolling update, as opposed to what it has been as a manually pushed out update.

Google's Panda Update Graduates To Rolling Update

[deepsand]

Just as I'd elsewhere earlier predicted would be the case.

Once the new data evaluation routines are incorporated into the indexing engine, and the bulk of the data currently indexed are reevaluated, there's no necessity for special Panda updates.

And, if it's not already the case, the same will happen with Penguin.

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[reinhal]

what exactly does implementing "authorship" on the blog actually mean?

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by reinhal

what exactly does implementing "authorship" on the blog actually mean?

With respect to Google, see SeachEngineLand: The Definitive Guide To Google Authorship Markup.

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[tasteittours]

Recent Google panda update on 15 March 2013 and Goodbye to last manual Google panda update.

[dororai]

This whole authorship is nonsense. It's completely unfair to discredit great writers who wish to remain anonymous and portals that are maintained by multiple writers (you can't tag 10 authors on a single page!!). I don't like where Google is heading...

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by dororai

This whole authorship is nonsense. It's completely unfair to discredit great writers who wish to remain anonymous and portals that are maintained by multiple writers (you can't tag 10 authors on a single page!!). I don't like where Google is heading...

While it is incorrect to say that non-participating writers are discredited, there are many of us who share your concerns re. Google's attempts to coerce content providers into using G+.

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[HTMLBasicTutor]

Matt_Cutts 12 hours ago

This has nothing to do with Reader. We were tackling a spammer and inadvertently took action on the root page of digg.com.
Here's the official statement from Google: "We're sorry about the inconvenience this morning to people trying to search for Digg. In the process of removing a spammy submitted link on Digg.com, we inadvertently applied the webspam action to the whole site. We're correcting this, and the fix should be deployed shortly."

From talking to the relevant engineer, I think digg.com should be fully back in our results within 15 minutes or so. After that, we'll be looking into what protections or process improvements would make this less likely to happen in the future.

Added: I believe Digg is fully back now.

@mattcutts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408924

[mikeslough6]

Ahh I am scare from Google upcoming update as the past routine Google throw its new updates or crawler renewals in the month of April. . . . what you thing what will be happen in April 2013???

[txshellie]

Originally Posted by deepsand

With respect to Google, see SeachEngineLand: The Definitive Guide To Google Authorship Markup.

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I just spent the last hour improving my google+ page and tying into the one site where I've published over 70 articles and have over 70,000 views (wondering how many of those views were actual people).

Thanks for the article and the kick in the pants. Hard to keep so many plates in the air nowadays.

I've seen several of my pages that have always done well take a little bit of a hit. Time to get back in full gear!!

[txshellie]

Google must be making some really interesting changes because keywords I've always done well for that were pretty major are now out of the top 100 - happened in the last 10 days.

We'll see how quickly I can get them recovered.

[Cricket]

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