Google Panda 4.1 Update Rolled Out - Who will Get Benefits or Punishments?

Google Panda 4.1 Update

After 4 months time span Google launched another Panda algorithm. Previous Google Panda 4.0 update affected 7.5% of all English queries, as well as low-quality content, keywords, and duplicate content owned websites.

In this article, Seogdk analyzes the impact of Google Panda 4.1 algometric update on websites that may be benefited or penalized.

Google announced their 27th Panda 4.1 update rolled out officially on Google Plus. Google's Pierre Far, Webmaster Trends Analyst announced publically:

"Earlier this week, we started a slow rollout of an improved Panda algorithm, and we expect to have everything done sometime next week.

Based on user (and webmaster!) feedback, we’ve been able to discover a few more signals to help Panda identify low-quality content more precisely. This results in a greater diversity of high-quality small- and medium-sized sites ranking higher, which is nice.

Depending on the locale, around 3-5% of queries are affected.
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Prime Objective of Panda 4.1 Update


The main purpose of Google Panda Update is to remove spam as well as duplicate content from the web. From the above announcement, it is very clear that Panda 4.1 algorithm also continued the attack on spam and duplicate content. As compared to the previous update Panda 4.1 is much softer because it should affect only 3.5% of queries while Panda 4.0 affects 7.5%.

This Panda update was purposely designed to punish websites that used low-quality content as well as duplication of content. So in the last update, those sites were affected and did rework accordingly Panda update will chance to get benefits to rank high.

Who will Get Benefits?


According to Panda 4.1 update, small business websites and high-quality medium business websites will get rewarded as well as high-quality content websites also get rank higher.

This update was designed purposely for the redefining quality of content. It is more beneficial for small business sites which have quality content as well as good for those reworked websites affected by last Panda 4.0.

Additionally careful about content uniqueness and freshness because those websites that sustain this strategy will get the benefit of this update. Your articles or posts must be crossed 300 words limit serving users with quality and informative content which will result in quality engagement and extensive web traffic.

Who will Get Penalized?


The last Panda 4.0 update punished many renowned websites who not follow the rules. As compared to the previous Panda update it is a little softer but not underestimated because it is designed to kill spam and duplicate content.

Google distinguished and set ranking phenomena by users' behavior towards specific websites they visited. In other words, if a user searches for a specific query in the search engine and lands on a webpage which not relevant to the desired search and the user returns back then Google counted these bounces and penalized that website's ranking by 1. If the user found the search result informative or usable then Google rewarded the website's ranking by 1. This point-based algometric system is applied by Google to maintain its ranking system.

At the last, this Panda 4.1 update will be punished all those websites which not follow the guidelines about content and not maintaining a bounce rate. Because bounce rate is a sign of poor-quality content as well as low-quality keywords.

Conclusion


This Panda 4.1 algorithm attacks many websites and businesses so to overcome it first you should audit your website i.e. rework important areas of the website such as contents, bounce rate, and keywords.

Keep watch on traffic reports of your website from 24 Sept to 30 Sept If you found improvements in it then you're the benefited one or if not then penalized.

To overcome it use this Web tool and recover your website. So friends don't forget to share with me if your traffic changes this week as well as share your valuable thoughts about this article. Till then take care and enjoy your life...!!!


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How to Remove Deleted Page of Your Website from Google Search Results?

Google Webmaster Tools

Website maintenance or monitoring is a very crucial part of the web development process. In other words, it is an essential and mandatory phase that decides your website's performance as well as improvement in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). Actually, the SEO process is nothing but the development of the website, not technically but virtually it being a part of website development.

Nowadays maintaining a website against Google updates or algorithms is a very critical task for a webmaster because these updates not only affect a website's search performance but impact on business also. So ultimately the ball comes in the webmaster's court to solve these problems and always he/she should be prompt and up to date with new technologies to overcome these issues.

Recently one of my blog's readers Jay Sarjine from India emailed me a query about his website's search results. I put his email screenshot as:

SEO Query

This is only a primary example of this issue because many of us encountered this problem but don't know the solution or how to overcome it? So by taking into consideration, this issue Seogdk explores the guidelines to remove the deleted page of your website from Google's cache or search results.

For instance, your website name is abc.com and you had a page named abc.com/pqr.html which you have deleted from your website but it's still present on Google's server. Now you want to remove the same from Google’s Server as well. So the ultimate solution for this issue is the use of Google Search Console or Google Webmaster tools.

Guidelines to remove deleted pages from search results by using Google Search Console

-On the Search Console home page, click the website you want.

-On the Dashboard, click Indexing on the left-hand menu.

-In the drop-down menu, click the Removals option.

Search Console Removals

-Then you will see the Temporary Removals option.

-Then click the New Request option and a new window opens as below:

Search Console Removal Request

-Type the URL of the page you want to be removed from search results (not the Google search results URL or cached page URL), and then click Next.

-The URL is case-sensitive—use exactly the same characters and capitalization that the website uses.

-Click Yes, remove this page.

-Click Submit Request.

Conclusion

By following the above guidelines you can easily remove deleted pages of your website from Google search results but it's very important and always keep in mind; to ensure your content is permanently removed or not, you need to do one of the following within 90 days of requesting removal. Otherwise, your content may later reappear in search results.

-If the web page no longer exists, make sure that the server returns a 404 (Not Found) or 410 (Gone) HTTP status code. Non-HTML files (like PDFs) should be completely removed from your server.

-If the web page still exists, use robots.txt to prevent Google from crawling it. Even if a URL is disallowed by robots.txt Google may still index the web page if they find its URL on another website. However, Google won't index the web page if it's blocked in robots.txt and there is an active URL removal request for the web page.

So friends send your feedback about this article via comments and emails. Till then take care and enjoy your life.....!!!


Website maintenance or monitoring is a very crucial part of the web development process. In other words, it is an essential and mandato...