Google Panda Update 2.2

[djbaxter]

Coming Soon: Google Panda Update 2.2
by Matt McGee, Search Engine Land
Jun 9, 2011

One of the bigger pieces of news ? certainly for webmasters and SEOs ? from our SMX Advanced conference this week is that Google will soon be releasing version 2.2 of the Panda algorithm update.

Google?s Matt Cutts confirmed that during Tuesday?s keynote question-and-answer session with Danny Sullivan. Cutts said that the update has been approved, hasn?t been rolled out yet, but that should happen soon.

What does Panda 2.2 address?
The next update will target a common webmaster complaint related to the original Panda/Farmer update: sites that scrape and re-publish content and are out-ranking the original source of the content.

?A change has been approved that should help with that issue,? Cutts said.

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[bigcat1967]

I always thought how Google threw out re-published content was to look at which page would be indexed first - and then any other copies would be not be indexed.

Anyway, this has been a long time coming. thx for the post.

 

[Yana]

has the update started?

 

[djbaxter]

Started and completed, I believe.

 

[C0ldf1re]

I haven't noticed any difference. Has anybody else seen any change?