Latest Google "panda" Update Affects 7.5% Of Search Results Today

By David John


Have you heard of the many different updates that Google has made in the last few years in an attempt to make the search experience for individuals much more useful. Many sites that pop up are often only trying to coerce individuals to visiting their blog or website in an attempt to sell them a product or service. Some of them are even worse, downloading spyware to your computer without you knowing, causing even more problems on your PC than you had before. Today, the latest Google Panda update has affected 7.5 percent of all websites that are indexed, making a clean sweep of what they call weak or thin sites. This article will address what you can do in order to avoid being a statistical victim of Google's efforts to keep their search engine clean.

What Is Google Panda?

You should understand that Google can only do so many things to maintain its database, keeping it from being overrun by unscrupulous individuals. They need to cater to those that are making them the most money as well, creating a very push and pull type of situation. The best way to avoid being affected by a Google update, especially Panda, is to make your site more like the larger websites on the Internet that seemed to be void of any impact when the updates occur. This means you have to create a larger site, with more pages, all with unique content that is categorized in a silo structure. By adding regular content on a consistent basis, you can usually avoid, and even benefit from, each of the updates that come up.

Best Way To Tackle The Google Panda Update

If you have existing sites that are thin, having only 5 to 10 pages of actual content, and if you do not post to these silos regularly with unique and invigorating material, you should start doing that right now before the next update in order to avoid being penalized once again. If you are creating a new website, you should design it with a silo structure, and schedule 50 or more posts out into the future, all with content that is related to the products and services you have to offer. Using these simple strategies, you can bring an old website to life, and ensure that the Panda update will not affect any of your new sites the next time the update is made.

When you are trying to rank your websites on the Internet for specific keywords, it is not enough to create a website with a couple pages in order to achieve and maintain top rankings. Not only do you have fierce competition between others that are trying to accomplish the same thing, you also have Google standing behind you ready to eliminate your website with every algorithm update. Just recently, Google updated the Panda filter which impacted 7.5% of all search results on the web. Fortunately, there is a way that any webmaster can survive these updates by simply emulating the websites that Google seems to love.




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