Why The Google Updates "panda" Filter Impacts 7.5 Percent Of All Search Results

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?

The Google panda algorithm is something that targets what are called thin or low-quality sites. Essentially, when you put up smaller websites that only have three or four pages of content, and you do not update regularly with new content, these are the ones that will become penalized. This latest update by Google on their Panda algorithm has truly affected a significant portion of websites online today. If you're website is lacking good original content, and is not structured properly with silos or categories, it will more than likely be affected by this update in a large way.

Using Google Panda To Your Advantage

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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