Slow Roll Out of Google Panda 4.2

Last month Google confirmed, saying that, Panda refresh has been started and it would take a few months for the update to roll out completely.

Last year, almost 10 months ago, on September 25, 2014, Panda 4.1 rolled out that affected 3-5% search queries of English language. The same year in October 2014, another Panda update was noticed, though not confirmed by Google, which showed small fluctuations in the Google’s search results.

But, after a halt of 10 months, Google is back with Panda 4.2 that has affected about 2-3% of the search queries, till now. Incredibly slow, even Google says that this update might take a long, almost months for its complete roll out. This slow update quite clearly shows that some of your web pages might not witness these changes immediately, but the changes will occur is sure.

Though the roll out is slow, but it’s confirm that a number of website owners that were penalized by the last Panda update, has a chance to get profited, if they had done all the possible changes required. In case, if you are in the penalized list of Google and have discovered no such changes, then don’t panic, the roll out is yet to complete and you may experience frequent changes in your organic rankings shortly.

This Panda roll out is not similar to the past ones, where the changes were quick and one can easily figure out the rise and drop down in the Google traffic easily.

Last week, Google’s John Mueller and webmasters had a chat on Google’s Hangouts where John was asked the reason for Google Panda 4.2 updating several times and being very slow than normal.

To this query, John stated, “This [Panda rollout] is actually pretty much a similar update to before. For technical reasons we are rolling it out a bit slower. It is not that we are trying to confuse people with this. It is really just for technical reasons. So, it is not that we are crawling slowly. We are crawling and indexing normal, and we are using that content as well to recognize higher quality and lower quality sites. But we are rolling out this information in a little bit more slower way, mostly for technical reasons. It is not like we are making this process slower by design, it is really an internal issue on our side.”