2011 Updates

December 10-Pack - December 1, 2011 

Google had updated a set of 10 updates; these posts would come every month. The Google updates associated with the parked domain detection, blog search freshness, query refinements, image search freshness and many more. However, the exact dates of the posts were not provided yet. Google has entered in a Panda Flux after Panda 2.5, where updates take place more frequently. 

10-Pack of Updates - November 14, 2011

The ten recent algorithms have been changed by the Google. This time, it would be more transparent and quite unusual. Matt Cutts has released 10 recent posts of the algorithm updates. Still, the timeline was not mention clearly. Majorly, there were only small updates, but a great impact. The rank boost for official web pages, improved snippets and many more were amongst the ten current Google Algorithm transformations. 

Freshness Update - November 3, 2011

Google had announced that a current changes in the updates related to the freshness would impact above 35% of queries. The update strongly focuses on the recent content of the web pages and also affects time sensitive results. The updates focus on freshness to impact 35% of searches. This would give fresher and current recent results. 

Query Encryption - October 18, 2011

For the privacy reason, Google had announced that they would encrypt search queries. They hide search referral data along with latest SSL implementation

Panda 2.5 - September 28, 2011

After few months, Google introduced another Panda update. However, they have not mentioned the clear details of the changes. Apparently, some of the sites reported a big scale of losses. Google Panda 2.5 Update Arrived This Week: Confirmed (SEL)

516 Algo Updates - September 21, 2011

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Congress that in 2010 Google made a 516 updates, this is one a real shocking announcement. Moreover, they have tested more than 13,000 updates.

Pagination Elements - September 15, 2011

For eradicating the crawl and duplication issues created by pagination, Google had introduced the rel="next" and rel="prev" link attributes. They also improved automatic consolidation and canonicalization for "View All" pages.

Panda Goes Global (2.4) - August 12, 2011

The Google Panda goes international, for both English-language queries globally and non-English queries except for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This would impact 6-9% of queries in different affected countries.