What Is the Panda Update? Google Panda Algorithm Explained
If your website has ever seen a sudden, unexplained drop in traffic that affected almost every page at once, a Panda-related quality assessment may have been the cause.
Frequently Asked Question
There is no legitimate trick to bypass Panda. The term sometimes refers to techniques people have attempted to use to recover from Panda penalties, like using noindex tags to hide thin pages from Google, or adding a small amount of new text to existing pages to make them appear improved.
Yes, Panda's quality signals are still very much active. In January 2016, Google confirmed that Panda had been incorporated into its core ranking algorithm, meaning it runs continuously as part of Google's standard ranking process rather than as a periodic filter.
Yes. Panda's quality signals apply to all websites regardless of age. A newly launched website that publishes thin, duplicate, or low-value content can be assessed poorly from the start.
Panda affects all types of websites, including e-commerce sites. In fact, large e-commerce websites were among the most significantly impacted by early Panda updates because they commonly had thousands of product pages with thin, duplicated, or templated descriptions.
Google's Panda update penalised websites with thin content, duplicate content, scraped content, auto-generated pages, excessive advertising relative to content, and generally low-quality pages that provided little value to users.
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