For a short while Google moved its Panda Focus onto the rest of the world and away from the USA. But now it’s gone back to where it all started. And it seems like rather a big update – cause we’ve found some quite some surprising changes in the new Google Panda 2.5 update.
Here are the biggest losers:
Domain | SEO Visibility | SEO Visibility | Lost | Lost in % |
25.09.2011 | 02.10.2011 | |||
447.586
|
100.513 | -347.073 | -78% | |
552.925
|
213.059 | -339.866 | -61% | |
162.759
|
11.379 | -151.380 | -93% | |
197.936
|
48.346 | -149.590 | -76% | |
173.596
|
54.262 | -119.334 | -69% | |
130.870
|
22.637 | -108.233 | -83% | |
124.618
|
19.202 | -105.416 | -85% | |
155.522
|
65.490 | -90.032 | -58% | |
123.707
|
42.661 | -81.046 | -66% | |
98.848
|
24.146 | -74.702 | -76% | |
89.854
|
15.441 | -74.413 | -83% | |
148.875
|
75.429 | -73.446 | -49% | |
101.178
|
33.595 | -67.583 | -67% | |
111.587
|
49.174 | -62.413 | -56% | |
80.166
|
25.460 | -54.706 | -68% | |
163.390
|
113.390 | -50.000 | -31% | |
72.306
|
25.129 | -47.177 | -65% | |
61.558
|
18.747 | -42.811 | -70% | |
87.048
|
45.118 | -41.930 | -48% | |
55.642
|
15.190 | -40.452 | -73% | |
62.227
|
26.278 | -35.949 | -58% | |
52.015
|
18.010 | -34.005 | -65% | |
54.307
|
20.504 | -33.803 | -62% | |
60.028
|
27.675 | -32.353 | -54% | |
80.590
|
50.694 | -29.896 | -37% | |
42.777
|
13.468 | -29.309 | -69% | |
36.240
|
7.242 | -28.998 | -80% | |
27.881
|
6.047 | -21.834 | -78% | |
22.848
|
1.530 | -21.318 | -93% | |
28.503
|
8.358 | -20.145 | -7 |
Take a look for yourself
Thanks to our new Searchmetrics Essentials tool, you can get even more interesting information: by clicking on any of the domains in the list, anyone (even those without a Searchmetrics account) can see all the important SEO KPIs, including the historical view of the SEO visibility of the domain. And if you subscribe for a free trial account (without the need to enter a credit card) you can see even more data.
Some of the sites above have been hit for the first time by a Panda update, while we o found some domains that have already been punished by Panda, got back some visibility and then have dropped again now with this new update 2.5. Next to some (faqs.org, ohinternet.com) drops, it looks like there is a pretty obvious pattern behind the update:
These are pages that got hit by Panda 1, got back some of their visibility with Panda 2.3 and lost this week again with Panda 2.5:
The reasoning behind these interesting changes isopen for discussion. Was Google unhappy with the Panda 2.3 changes? Or is there some “Kickout of Panda Trial” element ie pages that don’t make the expected changes required by Google drop again, just a little later?
These are the winners of the Panda 2.5 update:
Domain | SEO Visibility | SEO Visibility | Win | Win in % |
25.09.2011 | 02.10.2011 | |||
5.258.325
|
5.787.520 | 529.195 | 10% | |
738.030
|
924.621 | 186.591 | 25% | |
586.955
|
711.785 | 124.830 | 21% | |
1.218.625
|
1.320.032 | 101.407 | 8% | |
324.608
|
417.576 | 92.968 | 29% | |
248.953
|
329.781 | 80.828 | 32% | |
783.956
|
861.373 | 77.417 | 10% | |
572.825
|
643.087 | 70.262 | 12% | |
692.107
|
761.589 | 69.482 | 10% | |
958.356
|
1.027.422 | 69.066 | 7% | |
767.931
|
835.620 | 67.689 | 9% | |
564.718
|
631.089 | 66.371 | 12% | |
198.156
|
262.246 | 64.090 | 32% | |
646.698
|
708.610 | 61.912 | 10% |
This is a very interesting Panda Update and one of the biggest learnings this time is probably, that getting back your visibility from a previous Panda update, does not necessarily mean that you are Panda-secure.
And of course learning from the experience of sites like hubpages.com (that belonged to one of the biggest losers from Panda Update 1), which are now gaining visibility, they actually have more than they had before the first Panda update 🙂
What is your opinion on the new Panda 2.5 update?