Panda 3.3 and Other Changes
 

One of the most interesting snippets from this official Google blog page.


http://insidesearch.blogspot.com.au/...0-changes.html

Improvements to freshness. [launch codename “iotfreshweb”, project codename “Freshness”] We’ve applied new signals which help us surface fresh content in our results even more quickly than before.

i like these 2

Improvements to ranking for local search results. [launch codename “Venice”] This improvement improves the triggering of Local Universal results by relying more on the ranking of our main search results as a signal.

Improved local results. We launched a new system to find results from a user’s city more reliably. Now we’re better able to detect when both queries and documents are local to the user.

The mind boggles at the changes to their link evaluation methods. Google don't tell you precisely which thing they did for years that they will drop, however reading between the lines and knowing Googles aggressive approach to spam thin content and content farms I am guessing inbound links will be valued differently on different criteria.

Interesting.

interesting

Good stuff. Hopefully this one will result in a big slap for that 500+ site network of shallow babe sites.

More accurate detection of official pages. [launch codename ?WRE?]
We?ve made an adjustment to how we detect official pages to make more accurate identifications. The result is that many pages that were previously misidentified as official will no longer be.

blah blah

This is the first update that has affected my sites ever. And i mean ever!

All my sites have cut their google traffic in half. Fuck google and fuck panda!

If they're legit sites see your traffic double it's original amount over the next week, that's what happened to me with previous panda updates and hoping it's the case again as traffic halved since Sunday.

I hope that's the case. Sites are legit, adult and mainstream.

I have seen both ups and downs...

Seems the more niched the link trades the better... and that seems to go both inbound and outbound.

That's likely due to the fact that your sites suck. On the bright side, though, these changes will likely result in less crap showing up when you're searching for your next job.

Wow. Just compared Jan 1st-27th with Feb 1st-27th for my entire network and found that organic search traffic is up by 33%. Much of that likely has to do with a strong social media campaign which generated a bunch of relevant non-recip backlinks, but I'm sure some of it had to do with the updates.

I also noticed a huge fluctuation that seems to be based on the last time the site was updated...

Any blog I have that hasn't been updated in months or years basically lost its "spot" in the SERPs...

Any blog I have updated in the last month and/or are regularly updated just got a huge boost...

You're right. It's been my experience that freshness is an important factor.