All About The Farmer Algorithm Update Of Google [A List Of Related Links]

Saturday, March 5, 2011

All About The Farmer Algorithm Update Of Google [A List Of Related Links]

The SEO world blogosphere this week was all about the ‘Farmer Algorithm Update’ of Google as this was indeed a major update to the algorithm affecting the SERPs. Everyone was discussing, coming to conclusions, sharing the news and views and also predicting the future effects of this upgrade on SERPS. This also was accompanied by the list of sites which were the losers and winner.

I just thought of compiling a list of all the links which I referred and read and I think gave a good insight about this upgrade and thought of sharing it.

I hope these links will be helpful in gaining more information about the Farmer Algorithm Update.

Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update

by Danny Sullivan

http://searchengineland.com/google-forecloses-on-content-farms-with-farmer-algorithm-update-66071

EzineArticles Aims to Get Rankings Back, Following Google Algorithm Update

By Chris Crum

http://www.webpronews.com/2011/02/28/ezinearticles-aims-to-get-rankings-back-following-google-algorithm-update/

Following Google’s Algorithm Change, Mahalo Lays Off 10% of Staff

by Stan Schroeder

http://mashable.com/2011/03/02/mahalo-lays-off-10-of-staff/

More Farmer Update Winners, Losers: Wikihow, Blippr & Yahoo Answers

by Matt McGee

http://searchengineland.com/more-farmer-update-winners-losers-wikihow-blippr-yahoo-answers-66605

Google's Farmer Update: Analysis of Winners vs. Losers

by Rand Fishkin

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers

Was Google Too Hasty with the Farmer Update? SEO's Discuss Good & Bad

by Ben Pfeiffer

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-content-farm-13013.html

Google's Farmer Update Live: 12% Of Google's Results Forever Changed

by Barry Schwartz

http://www.seroundtable.com/was-google-too-hasty-with-the-farmer-update-13066.html

Google Farmer Update Shakeup Followed By Unexpected Recovery

by AssafKarmon and Nathan Safran

http://blog.conductor.com/2011/03/google-farmer-update-shakeup-followed-by-unexpected-recovery/

Google’s Farmer Update Plants User Behavior Seeds

by Kim Krause Berg

http://searchengineland.com/googles-farmer-update-plants-user-behavior-seeds-66335

New Data and Takeaways From the Content Farm Update

http://www.jeffreyrusso.com/03/new-data-and-takeaways-from-the-content-farm-update/

Google “Farmer” Update – Before and After

http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-farmer-update-before-and-after.html

Google Farmer Update: Who’s really affected?

http://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2011/03/03/google-farmer-update-whos-really-affected/

TED 2011: The ‘Panda’ That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google’s Top Search Engineers

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/the-panda-that-hates-farms/2/

Last but not the least:

Finding more high-quality sites in search

The Official Google Blog

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html