Friday, August 17, 2012

12:07 AM

Google’s Matt Cutt: Next Updates Will Be Jarring For A While

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Addressing yesterday, At SES San Francisco during the Matt Cutt main point, Matt Cutts replied some questions about the Penguin update that has lots of SEOs and webmaster shaking in their boots.

Update from Matt Cutts: Matt Cutt elucidated and gave a lot of context to what he said at SES San Francisco. Here is his comment:
Hey Barry, I wasn't saying that people needed to overly stress out about the next Penguin update, but I'm happy to give more details. I was giving context on the fact that lots of people were asking me when the next Penguin update would happen, as if they expected Penguin updates to happen on a monthly basis and as if Penguin would only involve data refreshes.
If you remember, in the early days of Panda, it took several months for us to iterate on the algorithm, and the Panda impact tended to be somewhat larger (e.g. the April 2011 update incorporated new signals like sites that users block). Later on, the Panda updates had less impact over time as we stabilized the signals/algorithm and Panda moved closer to near-monthly updates. Likewise, we're still in the early stages of Penguin where the engineers are incorporating new signals and iterating to improve the algorithm. Because of that, expect that the upcoming few Penguin updates will take longer, integrate additional signals, and as a result will have more noticeable impact. It's not the case that people should just expect data refreshes for Penguin quite yet.

 As you know, many SEOs are thirstily expecting a penguin update but Matt, the head of web search spam at Google, said "you don’t want the next Penguin update." He warned that the Google "engineers have been functioning tough," on this update. He even added the next few update will be "jarring and jolting" for webmasters and SEOs.

First time I have seen this kind of warning from Google. It makes it sound like the Penguin update will be sensed by many more SEOs. According to Barry Schwartz, 65% of SEOs were injury by Penguin - why so many more than Panda which was 40%? Well, this is intent more at SEO techniques scorn what Google wants to say otherwise.



Here’s some paraphrasing from attendees on Twitter:


Brafton on Penguin Update

Christopher Davis on Penguin Update

David McCormick on Penguin Update

Guillaume Lemarchand on Penguin Update

Jason Fell on Penguin Update

Jennifer Slegg on Penguin Update

Kristine Schachinger on Penguin Update

Lucid Agency on Penguin Update

Matt McGowan on Penguin Update

Mike Wilton on Penguin Update

Nick Roshon on Penguin Update


Scott Pete on Penguin Update

Search Engine Watch on Penguin Update

SEO Chester on Penguin Update

In any event, make sure to support yourself for the next Penguin update!