Google Updates Log

GOOGLE UPOATES LOG ORGANIZED OATA IS THE FIRST STEP ON THE POOE TO SMART E INFormed DECISIONS MAJOR UPDATES PER YEAR 18 13 2000/2 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2010/1 2011/12 2012/13 2012/13 2000 2002 09.2000 FIRST KNOWN UPDATE NEW GOOGLE FIRST UPDATE SPARK MASSIVE POSITION CHANGES WHILE A "GOOGLER DEEP THROAT" SAYS THAT GOOGLE DOESN'T NEED SEO's AND SO... THE GOOGLE / SEO DANCE BEGINS. 1 ST DOCUMENTED UPDATE 09.2002 GOOGLE FIRST DOCUMENTED UPDATE SHUFFLES THE DECK AND MAKES WEBMASTERS UNDERSTAND THEY ARE IN FOR THE LONG RUN. WE START COLLECTING PARAMETERS AND THE LINK BUILDING RACE IS OFF. 2003-2004 02.2003 BOSTON UPDATE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME AN UPDATE WAS NAMEDI THE BOSTON UPDATE SEEMS TO INCREASE THE USAGE OF LINKS AS THE MAIN RANKING PARAMETERS. M CASSANDRA UPDATE 04.2003 THIS UPDATE IS THE FIRST TIME GOOGLE ALLOWS TO SUBMIT A RE-CONSIDERATION REQUEST OR AS IT WAS CALLED AT THE TIME A RE-INCLUSION REQUEST TO BANNED SITES. 05.2003 DOMINIC UPDATE THIS UPDATE WAS CREATED TO ENHANCE THE WAY GOOGLE CRAWLS THE WEB AND COUNTS LINKS BETWEEN WEBSITES WHICH MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY WE DO SEO. ESMERELDA UPDATE 06.2003 THIS UPDATE MARKS THE END OF THE “MONTHLY UPDATES" STREAM FROM GOOGLE AND THE BEGINNING OF A FLUX OF UPDATES VWHICH WOULD BECOME MORE STEADY. 07.2603 FRITZ UPDATE AN UPDATE WHICH IS PURELY A CRAWL UPDATE AND CHANGED THE WAY GOOGLE CRAWLS THE WEB FROM A PERIODICALLY CRAWL TO A CONSTANT AND CONTINUES CRAWL & INDEX. 06.2003 FLORIDA UPDATE AN AGGRESSIVE AND WELL KNOWN UPDATE THAT CREATED A LOT OF OCHANGES IN GOOGLE'S SEARCH RESULT DROPPING MAJOR SITE AND CHANGING THE ORDER OF THINGS. 2004-200S 01.2004 AUSTIN UPDATE A CLEANUP & FINE TUNING UPDATE THAT CAME TO FIX ALL THINGS MISSED BY ITS PREDECESSOR (FLORIDA UPDATE) AND DEALT WITH ON PAGE SPAM, META TAG MISUSE ETC. BRANDY UPDATE 06.2003 A COLLECTION OF TWEAKS AND CHANGES THAT INCLUDED LSI (LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING), ANCHOR TEXT RELEVANCE, A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SYNONYMS AND MORE. 2005-2006 02.2005 ALEGRA UPDATE NO DOUBTA MAJOR UPDATE WHICH AFFECTED BOTH LOCAL WEBSITE AND GLOBAL WEBSITE AND DEALT WITH GOOGLE'S LSI ALGORITHM AND SOME SCORING FACTORS BOURBON UPDATE 05.2005 AS THE WEB GROWS GOOGLE FACES A DUPLICATE CONTENT PROBLEM WHICH (SPECULATED) THIS UPDATE WAS CREATED O UNIQUE CONTENT! TO DEAL WITH AND AFFECTED 3.5% OFF ALL QUERIES. 09.2005 GILLIGAN UPDATE GOOGLE SAID THIS WAS NOT AN UPDATE BUT ONLY A REFRESH OF SORT TO THEIR INDEX BUT SEO GUYS ARE SURE IT WAS AN UPDATE WHICH WAS NOT BIG IN ANY CASE - ITS ALIVE!!! JAGGER UPDATE 10.2005 THIS UPDATE IS A BUNCH OF CHANGES TARGETING LOW VALUE LINKS IN THE EFFORT TO STOP WEBMASTERS FROM SPAMMING AND DE-VALUE THOSE LINKS AS A FACTOR IN THE RANKING. 12.2005 BIG DADDY UPDATE THIS UPDATE WAS AN INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE WHICH DEALT WITH TECHNICAL STUFF SUCH AS URL CANONICALIZATION, PAGE REDIRECTS & MORE. 2007-2008 05.2007 UNIVERSAL SEARCH THIS IS NOT A TYPICAL UPDATE BUT MORE AN UPGRADE. GOOGLE INTEGRATED IMAGES, VIDEOS, NEWS, LOCAL RESULTS AND OTHER THINGS INTO THE SEARCH RESULTS. BUFFY UPDATE 06.2005 THIS IS A SMALL UPDATE BUT NOT ONE THAT HIT THE WEB IN A STORM AS ITS A COLLECTION OF SMALL PATCHES AND CHANGES THAT WERE RELEASED ACROSS A VWEEK. 2008-2009 08.2008 DEWEY UPDATE MAJOR SHIFT OCCUR WHEN THIS UPDATE RELEASED. SEO GUYS IN FORUMS ACROSS THE WORLD ROARED WHILE CONCLUSION POINT TO CLICK TROUGH & BOUNCE RATE AS REASONS. THE WHITE House 08.2008 GOOGLE SUGGEST AGAIN, NOT AN UPDATE BUT AN IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE WHICH WE ALL LOVE BUT CHANGED MANY SEARCH QUERIES AND THUS CHANGED THE ROLLS OF THE GAME! 2009-2010 02.2009 VINCE UPDATE THE FAMOUS “BIG BRANDS" UPDATE WHICH GOT WEBMASTER AND SEO'S ALIKE ANGRY SEEMED TO FAVOR BIG BRAND IN THE SEARCH RESULTS THUS ELIMINATING THE IDEA BEHIND THE WEB. GOOGLE STARTED TESTING CAFEINE UPDATE. NOT RELEASED YET! 08.2009 2010-2011 04.2010 GOOGLE PLACES ROLLS OUT! CHANGE IS COMING... MAY DAY UPDATE 05.2010 A POWERFUL UPDATE THAT TARGETED LONG TAIL SEARCH TERMS AND ESPECIALLY HIT THIN CONTENT WEBSITE TO THE AMAZEMENT OF MANY WEB-MANAGERS ACROSS THE WORLD. 06.2010 CAFFEINE UPDATE ! A MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE IN THE WAY GOOGLE CRAWL AND INDEX THE WEB ROLLS OUT AND INCLUDES HOURS OLD WEB PAGES IN THE SEARCH RESULTS! GOOGLE LAUNCHES INSTANT SEARCH... GREAT ALL AROUND. 09.2010 12.2010 SOCIAL SIGNAL ANNOUNCEMENT BOTH GOOGLE & BING (+ YAHOO) CONFIRM THE USE OF SOCIAL SIGNAL TO RANK WEBSITES AND SPECIFIC PAGES INSIDE THEM. THIS IS NO BIG SURPRISE AND WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS TO SEO'S. 2011-2012 02.2011 PANDA UPDATE A MAJOR UPDATE SPANING TROUGH 2011, 2012, 2013 AFFECTING 12% OF ALL SEARCH RESULTS TARGETING THIN CONTENT SITES, CONTENT FARMS AND OTHER POOR CONTENT ISSUSES. 04.11 * PANDA 2.0 UPDATE 05.11 * PANDA 2.1 UPDATE 06.11 * PANDA 2.2 UPDATE 07.11 * PANDA 2.3 UPDATE 08.11 * PANDA 2.4 UPDATE 08.11 * PANDA 2.5 UPDATE 10.11 * PANDA 3.0 UPDATE 11.11 * PANDA 3.1 UPDATE GOOGLE & BING INTRODUCE SCHEMA.ORG 06.2011 GOOGLE & BING (+YAHOO) INRODUCE SCHEMA.ORG, A NE W WAY TO MARK YOUR WEBSITE IN A WAY THAT WOULD ENRICH THE SEARCH RESULTS WITH RICHER DATA. 11.2011 FRESHNESS UPDATE GOOGLE RELEASES THE FRESHNESS UPDATE WHICH WOULD REWARD NEW CONTENT WITH HIGHER POSITIONS IN RELATED SEARCH QUERIES AND WOULD AFFECT 35% OF ALL QUERIES. 10 POINT UPDATE 14.2011 GOOGLE STEPS UP THE PACE AND RELEASES A FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON TEN IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CURRENT ALGORITHM MOSTLY FIXING VISIBLE RESULTS NOT RANKING. 12.11 * A SECOND 1O POINTS UPDATE FROM GOOGLE. 2012-2013 01.2012 30 POINTS UPDATE NOT YOUR TYPICAL UPDATE BUT A CONCENTRATED PACK OF UPDATES DEALING WITH MANY FEATURES INCLUDING ON SITE AND ON GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS INFRASTRUCTURE. PANDA UPDATE 3.2 01.2012 IF YOU THOUGHT THE PANDA UPDATE WAS DONE FOR THINK AGAINI 2012 ALSO INCLUDES A BUNCH OF PANDA UPDATES WHICH TARGETS ON SITE PARAMETERS TO AFFECT RANKING. 02.12 * PANDA 3.3 UPDATE 03.12 * PANDA 3.4 UPDATE 04.12 * PANDA 3.5 UPDATE 04.12 * PANDA 3.6 UPDATE 06.12 * PANDA 3.7 UPDATE 06.12 * PANDA 3.8 UPDATE 07.12* PANDA 3.9 UPDATE 09.12 * PANDA 4.0 UPDATE 02.2012 57 POINTS UPDATE!!! ANOTHER PACK OF UPDATED WHICH INCLUDES IMPROVEMENTS FOR HIGH QUALITY SITES, RELEVANT SEARCH FINE TUNING, BLENDING OF NEWS RESULTS AND MORE. 50 POINTS UPDATE!!! 03.2012 GOOGLE'S TEAM DOESN'T BELIEVE IN RESTING AND RELEASES ANOTHER 50 POINTS THEY UPDATED IN THEIR ALGORITHM AND IN THEIR SEARCH ENGINE INFRASTRUCTURE. 04.2012 PENGUIN UPDATE THIS FAMOUS WEB SPAM UPDATE IS A MULTIPART UPDATE THAT WAS CREATED TO DEAL WITH THE EVER GROWING AMOUNT OF WEB SPAM CREATED BY WEB MASTERS TRYING TO RANK ON TOP! 05.2012 * PENGUIN 1.1 UPDATE 10.2012 * PENGUIN 1.2 UPDATE !! 06.2012 86 POINTS UPDATE!!! ANOTHER ASTONISHING RELEASE BY GOOGLE'S TEAM WHICH TALKS ABOUT 86 THINGS CHANGES IN GOOGLE'S ALGORITHM AND THEY WAY THEY RANK WEBSITES. 09.2012 EMD UPDATE DUE TO MANY COMPLAINTS FROM WEBMASTERS AND SURFERS ALIKE GOOGLE RELEASES THE EMD UPDATE WHICH SHOULD CHANGE THE WAY THEY HANDLE "EXACT DOMAIN NAMES". 65 POINTS UPDATE!!! 10.2012 YET AGAIN... THE BUSIEST YEAR AND MORE TO GO. ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT BY GOOGLE DECLARING 65 CHANGES IN THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE AND THIS AND THAT. 2013 09.2013 PANDA UPDATE THATS RIGHT, THE PANDA UPDATE IS BACK! 2013 IS ANOTHER YEAR WHERE THE LEADING STAR AGAIN THE PANDA UPDATE, BACK WITH VENGENCE TO RID THE WEB OF POOR CONTENT, 01.13 * PANDA 4.2 UPDATE 03.13 * PANDA 4.3 UPDATE 06.13 * PANDA 4.4 UPDATE 07.13 * PANDA RECOVERY DOMAIN CROWDING 06.2012 WE ALL KNOW THAT ANNOYING DOUBLE RESULT OF THE SAME WEBSITE IN THE FIRST PAGE. AFTER A LOT OF COMPLAINS GOOGLE ROLLS OUT DOMAIN CROWDING TO FIX THIS ISSUE. 09.2013 PENGUIN UPDATE A MASSIVE UPDATE THAT RATTELED THE WEB WITH RANKING CHANGING ON A DAILY BASIS. THE BUZZ HINTS THAT THIS UPDATE TARGETS PAGE LEVEL. THAIS A WRAP WE HAVE REACHED THE END OF AN EYE OPENING JOURNEY. ITS PLAIN TO SEE THAT GOOGLE'S STAFF KEEPS BUSY SURPRISING, UPDATING AND IMPROVING THE WORLD MOST POPULAR SEARCH ENGINE ON A DAILY BASIS! ITS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WE ONLY TOUCHED MAJOR ALGORITHM AND INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATES AND LEFT OUT A LOT OF SMALL TWEAKS, FIXERS AND TUNE UP MADE ONA REGULAR BASIS BY THE GOOGLE STAFF. WANT TO LEARN MORE? CHECK OUT THE RESOURCE LIST WHICH I INCLUDE AS TEXT HYPERLINK LIST. YOU CAN FIND UN-BELIEVABLE NEATLY ORGANIZED INFORMATION. THANKS FOR DROPPING BY! WE LOVE YOU ALL & INVITE YOU TO SHARE, EMBED, SEND OR COMMENT ON THIS INFOGRAPHIC. RESOURCES Webmaster Search MOZ Google World.com Engine Watch SEARCH ENGINE Search Engiñe Land. 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