Better Understanding Panda

January 26, 2012

What Google's "Panda" Ranking Algorithm Update Means to You By: Mike Moran Last week, I was lucky to join Joe Apfelbaum of Ajax Union and Ben Kirshner of Elite SEM on a panel (ably moderated by Jules Kibbe of TicketNetworkDirect) for the Ticket Summit on the recent changes in search marketing. The attendees are ticket brokers an dpartner sthat move most of the seats for entertainment and sporting events in the U.S., so you can imagine that they have a fierce interest in search marketing. It fell to me to explain the dreaded Google Panda update of its search ranking algorithm. I say "dreaded" because so many people have treated this latest reshuffling of the search results as something approaching apocalyptic disaster. If it has been a nightmare for you, my condolences, but there's no going back, so we all need to understand the idea behind Panda and we might need to change the way we think to succeed in the brave new Panda world. First off, Panda isn't named after a bear–it is actually the surname of the Google engineer whose ideas lay behind it. And, although it is about to celebrate its first birthday, it isn't a single event wrapped in the past. Google Panda has ushered in a series of changes over the past year, with a couple of ranking algorthm updates interpsersed with more regular changes in the data that it depends on. Continue Reading

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