Don't Miss The New Google Webmaster Hangouts

Pierre Far announced on his Google + page that there will be a bunch of upcoming Google Webmaster Hangouts soon. You do not want to miss them.

Here is the break down:

• Wednesday, 30 November, at 2pm Seattle time, English office hours with +Susan Moskwa
• Thursday, 1 December, at 2pm London time, English office hours with me +Pierre Far
• Thursday, 1 December, at 2pm Seattle time, English office hours with +Jonathan Simon
• Friday, 2 December, at 2pm Zürich time, German office hours with +John Mueller
• Friday, 2 December, at 3pm Zürich time, Hungarian office hours with +Gary Illyes

These are always great for SEOs and Webmasters to join.

Forum discussion at Google +.

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Google Panda 3.1 Update : 11/18

Friday afternoon, sometime after 4pm I believe, Googletweeted that they pushed out a "minor" Panda update effecting less than one-percent of all searches.

The tweet reads:

Tiny weather report: Minor Panda algorithm data refresh (affects <1% of searches). Context from Feb: http://goo.gl/EgZ8u

The last time Google said a Panda update was minor, it turned out to be pretty significant.

That being said, we should have named it 3.0 - in fact, I spoke to someone at Google who felt the same. So I am going to name this one 3.1, although it does make it easier to reference these updates by dates.

Panda Updates:

• Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
• 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 or so.
• Panda 2.1 on May 9th or so.
• Panda 2.0 on April 11th or so.
• Panda 1.0 on February 24th

For more on Panda, see our Google Panda category.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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Google Indexing & Displaying Images Within Universal Search Fast

Back in April, I reported at Search Engine Land that Google was indexing images within hours and displaying time stamps on images.

But since then, there has not been much discussion around the speed of Google indexing images recently.

A WebmasterWorld thread changed that, when an image expert came in and said Google is back at it.

He said:

Today I noticed for the first time, that a new indexed image is shown in the images Onebox of the Google serps (universal serach). This is extremly fast.

I found it when searching for the actual Google Doodle "Louis Daguerre".

If you switch to google images I see 20 (!) new indexed pictures in the Top 35. Amazing - I call this "freshness" :-)

So not only are the images showing up in image search really quickly, which it has been since April. But he also says they are showing images that are really fresh in the web results within hours.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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