Google Panda Update Winners
As we reported past, the most recent data from SearchMetrics shows Google properties like YouTube and Blogger making search visibility gains in the UK as a result of the global roll-out of Panda. Related trends for these properties are mainly likely occurring in other countries as well.
While these aren’t the simply Google properties making gains, these two in particular seem to be analytic of a larger trend from the update. Video sites and blogs/news sites seem to be doing improved. Here are several of the gainers listed in SearchMetrics’ top 100 winners list:
- youtube.com – 18.93% visibility increase
- telegraph.co.uk 16.98% visibility increase
- guardian.co.uk – 9.73% visibility increase
- bbc.co.uk – 5.46% visibility increase
- yahoo.com – 9.47% visibility increase
- blogspot.com (Blogger) – 22.8% visibility increase
- dailymail.co.uk – 12.72% visibility increase
- dailymotion – 17.8% visibility increase
- ft.com – 16.17% visibility increase
- independent.co.uk – 21.53% visbility increase
- readwriteweb.com – 152.46% visbility increase
- thegregister.co.uk – 13.47% visibility increase
- itv.com – 22.38% visibility increase
- cnet.com – 14.21% visibility increase
- mirror.co.uk – 24.87% visibility increase
- mashable.com – 22.61% visibility increase
- wordpress.com – 18.62% visibility increase
- techcrunch.com – 40.72% visibility increase
- time.com – 55.24% visibility increase
- metacafe.com – 6.45% visibility increase
- reuters.com – 36.82% visibility increase
- thenextweb.com – 3.85% visibility increase
- zdnet.co.uk – 34.04% visibility increase
- vimeo.com – 18.85% visibility increase
- typepad.com – 43.86% visibility increase
That’s to name a few. There are additional
SearchMetrics is present their lists of top losers and winners in the UK for download here. Sistrix, whose data we’ve referenced a lot concerning the U.S. Panda update.

