Social Connection between Google Panda and Google +1

dcuellarpimp

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Very interesting blog post to read and it's only Monday!!!!

Quote: Recent news indicates that Google has pushed the Panda to regions outside the U.S., and everyone in the search industry continues to keep a close eye on the fallout from this significant algorithm change and what it means on the world's search engine results pages (SERPs).

Although the bigger picture of previous ranking websites left in Panda's wake is not precisely known, search marketers aren't really surprised with recent developments.

Many SEOs feel the Panda update was long overdue, especially with the long-term high rankings reign of content farms and the noticeable disparity between Google rankings and socially shared content.

What most are ignoring is that Panda represents more than just an algorithm change to weed out content farms; it represents (perhaps) a first step in a series of fundamental shifts that will enable Google to become more socially-focused.

Shortly after the Panda update showed up in February, Google +1 was launched, which provided yet another viable signal to assist the ranking algorithm.

Although Google +1 certainly adds to the arsenal of data that can be leveraged for rankings, was it really required to gauge content quality? Continued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/3642250

Please share your thoughts on this blog post. Allowing people to vote right from the search results is retarded. That just encourages more spam. Why would someone vote in the search results before actually visiting a site? The code that they are supposedly giving sites to add it, well, that ONLY makes sense if it corresponds with their own social network. Otherwise, where does the vote go? It has no meaning to the site visitor unless it correlates with something. I don't see this working out to well for Google. This feature will be abused or just die out like Google buzz did.
 
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