Changes to Google Algorithm in Past 1 year?

I havent been on the forums in a while....

Has anyone noticed any Google Algorithm changes in the past year? I know its all theory, but has anyone seen any proof of any changes ..... i.e. Blog posts are worth less, Inbound links hurting websites, No-Follow giving link juice, etc.????

 

Then you've missed a lot. They rolled out the panda update and every few weeks a new update is reflected in the SERPs.

 

Its not that bad, it depends on the sites seo. It only hurts sites that have poor seo activity.

 

Hi

As i am seeing that in last year google panda update is going on. This will come again and again on your website and if you are not using the guidlines of panda this will affect your ranking. For more info you can visit here http://www.synapseinteractive.com/google-panda-recovery-service.html

 

Please look into the details -

Panda Update 1.0: Feb. 24, 2011
Panda Update 2.0: April 11, 2011 (about 7 week gap)
Panda Update 2.1: May 10, 2011 (about 4 week gap)
Panda Update 2.2: June 16, 2011 (about 5 week gap)
Panda Update 2.3: July 23, 2011 (about 5 week gap)
Panda Update 2.4: August 12, 2011 (about 3 week gap)
Panda Update 2.5: September 28, 2011 (about 7 week gap)
Panda Update 2.6: November 3, 2011

 

Google updates their algorithm (reported or not) about 50 times a year. But it doesn't necesarily hurt SEO, they're just trying to either make results more relevant, or stop black hat seo tactics.

 

Google panda all most every week update there algo

 

Panda and freshness update are the 2 biggies, there have been many others though

 

Aside from algo changes you'll see a lot of changes with Google Places - like the omisison of 3rd party reviews, etc. Also adwords express launched, look that up. Go check it out.

 

Not too much of a difference, they just try to hack down on black hat most of the time. It may affect seo a tiny bit, but nothing out of the ordinary.

 

Apart from the duplicate content and link farm penalties, things have pretty much stayed the same, i.e. if you have unique content and are getting quality backlinks you should be fine

 

Google Panda is a service from the Google to tell the users and most specifically the Webmasters, that what are the Dont's that they must not do that particular work to market their business.One should keep an eye of it.!!

 

Thanks all of you to share your views. It helps me to understand the panda updates. i never knew about the same.

 

Google update after every 2 or 3 week. I think you missed google panda update so. Keep in mind when google change anything.

 

Yes google has been changed a lot.......!!!

 

Google is not changing but improving. It has done good changes in searches better strategy for spammers and black hat. Google is still improving..

 

It is one of the most drastic change happening in the year after they rolled out the panda update. Content farms totally wiped out and site which they deem not worth it is demoted in the search ranking.

 

Panda Update is worst algo of google in past 1 Year.

 

If you are not updated for a year, there are lot of things you need to flashback in Google Search Engine.