Google’s Panda Update

Key Takeaways

as I said in Game of Thrones but his death may never die and that sure does apply to SEO every time that Google releases a major new update naysay has quickly declared that SEO is dead and guess what it's still alive and kicking today but when was the first time that SEO died it was actually back in 2011 with the Google Panda update Panda was heralded as the first death of SEO as they undercut the keyword stuffing and content farming that was popular at the time Shady seos would stuff keywords into otherwise irrelevant or low quality posts and pages with the hopes of tricking Google into thinking it was authoritative just by mentioning the key term a lot instead of killing SEO the update simply meant that webmasters started focusing more on producing quality content what a shame this really set the tone for all future deaths of SEO and Google updates to the rise of AI every time that SEO has been declared dead it's instead lived on simply focusing ever more on quality content and genuine contextual links we firmly believe that SEO will never die but if you want to read about a few more near-death encounters for SEO check out the full blog post and the Fat Joe blog