Google May 2014 Panda 4.0 Update

Google May 2014 Panda 4.0 Update

Google released a new panda update with new features. It is not a refreshing algorithm but completely new. This Panda algorithm targets on spammy queries from the Google SERP. There is no affect on quality or fresh websites. The Panda 4.0 algorithm impacts on 7.5% of English queries to a level that active user might notice it.

Panda 4.0 hits on spam queries such as Viagra, payday loan and the related type of target queries. There is no any big change on major sites, but users find fresh result about these types of queries. Rank for those spam sites should be change from last result.

Here is the date vise list of all panda updates:-

Panda #25 on March 15, 2013
Panda #24 on January 22, 2013
Panda #23 on December 21, 2012
Panda #22 on November 21st
Panda #22 on November 21st
Panda #21 on November 5th
Panda #20 on September 27th
Panda 3.9.2 on September 18th
Panda 3.9.1 on August 20th
Panda 3.9 on July 24th
Panda 3.8 on June 25th
Panda 3.7 on June 9th
Panda 3.6 on April 27th
Panda 3.5 on April 19th
Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
Panda 3.2 on about January 15th
Panda 3.1 on November 18th
Panda 2.5.3 on October 20th
Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
Panda 2.5 on September 28th
Panda 2.4 in August
Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd.
Panda 2.2 on June 18th.
Panda 2.1 on May 9th.
Panda 2.0 on April 11th.
Panda 1.0 on February 24th

What is Canonicalization and How to Solve this for Website

Q: What is a canonical url?

Canonicalization is the process of selecting the best URL structure for your website and it is mostly for the Home or Index pages. Most of us consider given URL’s same:

www.mysite.com

http://mysite.com

mysite.com

www.mysite.com/index.php

But these all URL’s are different. Web server completely returns different content for all those URL’s.  We choose the most usable URL for our site work.

Q: How Search engines pick the URL for my Website?

The main thing to consider is to use the same URL for all work in the entire website. For example if you starting your work using http://mysite.com url then you need to use this format for your entire site and link building rather than the different URL’s.

Q: Is there is any other Method to do this?

Yes, you can use 301 re-directions for all of your other URL’s to the main URL. Suppose a example, if you are using http://mysite.com for all work you need to use 301 redirect code to all other URL’s like www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/index.php.

Q: Use of Canonical Tag

A canonical tag is uses on the pages that you think that it is a duplicate content on your website. Suppose a example if you have two page http://mysite.com and other is http://mysite.com/index.php then you need to add canonical tag to http://mysite.com/index.php, so that search engine spider can treated it a copy of http://mysite.com

<link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.com/index.php" />




Q: If I want to keep www.mysite.com rather than the mysite.com, can I delete mysite.com?

No, if you are doing such thing your domain could be removing your domain completely. If this happened you must need reinclusion request and mention that you did it my mistake.