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Google's New Conspiracy Image results may not Counted as Impressions In Google WMT

From the last 10 days of October 2012 it has commonly seen by almost all webmasters for a sudden drop down of author stats in Google webmaster tools some such like as..

Yesterday, my author stats in Googlw Webmaster tool showed between

5000 to 12000 impressions per day
320 to 600 clicks per day for October

Today, this stat changed to half

2500 to 3500 impressions per day
200 to 400 clicks 

Actually the "WMT" have been always outlandish and incomprehensible for always and for each one as They never counted a correct firgure for all of mine, not even close due to their frequent Changefulness. Because often you see in WMT they dropped them, then they brought them back. I read that they are going to drop them AGAIN, this time forever (next month?). Suits me fine, since they are nothing but a source of frustration. Or there might be force full Conspiracy against webmasters to spend their budgets for Google Adwords Paid advertisement program. But not sure if it's related or not, but I have seen an overall drop in reported impressions in the search queries report (about 50% or more for 70% as compared to a week ago). Traffic is the same, though. Initial analysis leads me to believe that image results are no longer being counted as impressions. Because They NEVER show my photo on ANY SERPS. Recognisable?  Maybe Google want a more Isolated photo, to have different Look for me than my previous. I am about to pull all my authorship. It is simply not worth fretting over, especially since Google refuses to TRY to get it right. Jumping through their hoops to no avail is not only frustrating, it is demeaning. "Well from the Initial analysis it has been counted that as a prediction to believe that image results are no longer being counted as impressions."

Google's Latest Voice Search App has been set for iOS & Android users

Google's voice search is always an incredible search term to get your questions with answers.Now Google make it easy for all iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod) users to do just that with enhanced voice search that answers any question with the comprehensive Google search results you know and love.This latest version of Google's enhanced Search App not only work to say your question out loud, but your search app can speak your answer right back to you.
     When you speak some to search via your iOS & Android device the fast and accurate voice recognition technology enables Google's search operating to understand exactly and powerfully that what you’re saying. This will immediately return your questions with answers, mostly of them from Google knowledge Graph, which gives our search technology an understanding of people, places and things in the real world, here are a few of the questions that Google can answer by tapping on microphone icon and then ask your question.




Just you have to downlaod this new app for your system directly from your phone or you can get this from here Download the Google Search App

Google's New Search App and Chrome for new Operating System Window 8

More progressively Bing launched Window 8 to enhance Bing user search experience, having a lot web features with Bing interaction. The New Window 8 is a latest and powerful operating system and one of their most significant changes to the operating system ever than before window versions that Microsoft launched on Friday to consumers that nearly made Google a little sensitive to think about the new launch.
     In front of Google wanted to help you while working with Window 8, an easy access to couple Google products of daily use and get the best experience possible on Google and across the web, Google launched New Search App and Google Chrome for new operating system as a new user interface with a new simple site.



With this new Search App Google also put it's latest voice search option that you can use to naturally speak your question.The image search and image previews are built for swiping. And, as usual, you get immediate results as you type with Google Instant. Not changing the previous Chrome but with some new options for customizations to optimize for touchscreens, including larger buttons and the ability to keep Chrome open next to your other favorite apps.

Have 1st Penguin Penalties expired Sites come from Unhealthy to healthy range in Webmaster Tools

Some one said on a forum discussion sites that were attacked by 1st Penguin and showing in an unhealthy range in Google Webmaster tools now have moved back to healthy range.That means the previously sending Penguin Penalties to webmasters or site owners have been Expired and Penguin hitted sites automatically come to a healthy range .

In WMT you can order websites by health, noticed this week that almost exactly 6 months after the April 24 penguin attack that sites of ours that were showing in the unhealthy range have moved back into the healthy range. Rankings for keywords affected have not returned to pre-penguin levels but they have improved some.  

I think site's health range doesn't matter with Penguin's working as penguin is purely algorithmic so it worth not right by saying that if a site hit by penguin will solely come to a healthy range in WMT after some time and penguin probably did not effect the health ranking in wmt. Have you any clue about this it is my pleasure if you share it with me.For more you can check it at here 

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Google's Double Dealing Is Penguin Working sites continue to rank with spammy links

Unnatural Linking Will Using Google Disavow Link Tools Perfect for Website

Google's Disavow tools mattered with your site's Unnatural Linking issues and getting a notification from Google's spam team rather than if you don't then doesn't need to be worried.
    But at a forum discussion some one wants some more clarification about using the Google Disavow link tool, the discussion is such like this..


In front of all this the first thing that is too much to be understandable is what Google's priorities for webmasters to use this feature.
Matt Cutts said repeatedly at PubCon, you should try not to use it, don't use it, really. Why? One example he said is do not disavow internal links - it can hurt. Right, Google is just using this as a "hint" or "signal" now, like they did with the rel=canonical when that launched, but this will be a powerful signal within 6 months - so be careful if you have to use it.     
The tool is currently amazing for only links pointed from other sites to your own but with 100% surety of bad quality, not for internal linking to use. More on in a recent video description Matt Cutts said that every site is going to get a variety of links of different qualities. Even if you have never bought/solicited/submitted for a link, your site will get crappy links from scraper sites. 
It can't just be one link. See Below




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Google Update Mobile App Analytics with some Exciting Updates

According to a recent research report to measure the mobile marketplace influence, more than 80 percent of marketers are planning to increase emphasis in mobile initiatives in 2013 and much of the growing adoption and innovation in the industry is driven by mobile apps. Due to this Google updated it's Mobile App Analytics Updates with some exciting updates that was being introduced in July 2012 to help marketers and developers better measure their mobile apps.
The following are the new ones to Google Analytics Mobile App Analytics public beta.

A New Sign UP to set up your Mobile Apps Analytics Account. To make it easy for GA users, Google added a New Sign up set up with just 3 clicks to create a new mobile apps analytics account ,download the SDK, and be well on the way to tracking key metrics and finding valuable insights using our features.

More Powerful and Lightweight SDK. There are new Android and iOS SDKs who are more powerful, lightweight and to implement and The majority of the mobile app reports are available out of the box after less than 5 minutes of work implementing our new SDK.

New App Version Report. A report that will tell you about users flow for latest mobile apps, cannibalization effect among my multiple versions,how users reaction for an early version of apps.

Create Custom Dimensions. You can create your own like..

  • You can create your own dimensions by which to segment your hits in every standard or custom GA report.
  • Leverage your own business and customer data as custom dimension values to enable new possibilities for analysis and reporting.
  • Naming and scoping of Custom Dimensions can be configured through the administration UI - no retagging needed!
To learn more you can read the full story at Google's Analytics Official Blog.


Google Adwords Campaigns iOS Apps promoters Track Apps Downloadings

iOS app tracking downloadingsGoogle now adds a latest iOS apps tracking feature in Google Adwords for iOS and Android application promoters to count the number apps dowloadings to get a brand base awareness for the best performing app in marketplace as it will work as a key to success for iOS advertisers.
   You can find it Google adwords ad campaign centre.You just need to need to setup an iOS conversion tracking to measure the the downloads.  Advertisers need to create a single code snippet in their AdWords account and install it in their app. This snippet is accessible in the AdWords interface in the same place where advertisers have been able to codelessly track Android downloads. By doing this you are much able know about your each ad campaigns performance and effectiveness . These enhanced insights help marketers iterate on app promotion strategies to reach their return on investment goals, with the help of features like the Conversion Optimiser for apps. More on Google describes this feature such like as...


Figuring out what ads are working is key for marketers like Sho Masuda, Vice President of Player Marketing for GREE, a leading mobile social game app developer. GREE has used click to download and in-app advertising solutions with AdWords to promote their app, and Masuda says, "Google’s host of tracking and optimization tools help us quickly iterate and maximize ROI across our app promotion campaigns. iOS conversion tracking will help us gain even deeper insights into our Google app promotion efforts for our iOS apps.
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Google Adword Conversion Optimizer and Enhanced CPC Upcoming Improvements

Google Adwords Conversion Optimizer is such like a pridiction feature that helps advertisers to enhance their CPC Bids at very low cost, especially focusing on when an advertiser prepare an ad campaign to make conversions for sales, signups, or mobile app downloads. In process of setting up the ads rotation by going into Advance Settings> Campaigns> Setting and choosing one among the four to increase  the conversion by an average of 5% that is obviously due to "Optimize for conversions" shows your higher-converting ads more often.
    
     While using the Adwords, now Google plan to roll out in November 2012 these options by bringing them to more close each other in a series of changes that advertiser can get better performance for their ads.Currently the following changes are expected from Google for Conversion Optimizer and Enhanced CPC
  • Setting up ads rotation by default when you choose first activate Conversion Optimizer or Enhanced CPC in a campaign. 
  • all ad campaigns setting for "Optimize for clicks" using Conversion Optimizer or Enhanced CPC will be switched to “Optimize for conversions.
  • when using Conversion Optimizer or Enhanced CPC, campaigns set to “Rotate evenly” will automatically begin to optimize for conversions when ads in an ad group are unchanged after 90 days

Election 2012 Worldwide Seen On YouTube Live Streaming

To making a live coverage for most important political events for election 2012 for worldwide YouTube viewers, does'nt matter where you live, YouTube has set a Political Calendar for you on their video platform.YouTube obviously stepping out for the current feature by noticing the worldwide viewer's interest for their first Political Live Stream on YouTube.

     The first live stream on YouTube that holds four live Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates under U.S leadership of last month, that totally were watched in round about 215 countries from all over the world and collect 24 million views. The great ratio of visitors are from the following countries.

  1. United States
  2. Canada
  3. Australia
  4. New Zealand
  5. United Kingdom
  6. Mexico
  7. Brazil
  8. Singapore
  9. Japan
  10. France
   The interest not ends up here as New York Times also uploads the three debates who covered for about 13 million viewers and their special viewers are not only from U.S but also from U.K, Canada, India, Germany, Australia and France.In result YouTube by analysing the worldwide public interest for previous political debates, YouTube finalise to cover the most important and ending moments of the election 2012 on the YouTube Elections Hub, and making them for an easy access to each one doesn't matter where you live.

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Google Authorship Images Showing In search Results by not having Authorship Setup

Last few months Google launched it's Authorship to the data of your Google Profile that appears in search results.And for this you have to simply follow the two steps create your Google Profile, and signup for authorship with your real Email not scendory email by Going Into your Google Plus Profile. So authors and publishers have to set it up to show their Google Profile data search results.

     But recently at forum discussion the examples come to seen Google shows Author data with image without having Google Authorship set up let's the examples

If you check it out in Rich Snippet data you might note that the current profile is connected with Twitter Account and doesn't connect with Google+ profile.So is there some thing wrong with google or it is enough for google to understand the author is same by having such like profiles to show in search results with their images.  

Same like done this with an other profile, the Google+ profile also doesn't have any details about this user's contributions to Google+. What it does have is linkage data to his blog and Twitter account, @optimizeyourweb and because the title of the blog post has the Twitter account and author name, Google is confident to link and use the image of the Google+ profile fo that user.


According all them it seems that perhaps Google does'nt required more about Authors to do anything to link up content to their Google profile.

Google's Double Dealing Is Penguin Working sites continue to rank with spammy links

When you dare to compete in your niche then the first thing which is to much important, "a brief overlook at all of relative industry to get the a lot of knowledge for all search terms and a chance to go ahead for further development but not yet more on to understand the current search behaviour & atmosphere," 
 In very beginning of search engines all is right what you do, how you use keywords in your on-page optimisation, Most SEOs, webmasters & experts advice to use your main rich keywords in domain name to rank for a specific search query, people done it and stay on top search results, it considered as a brilliant White Hat SEO terms, but now Google said you'll be get down due to your exact match domain names and you should follow the new webmaster guidelines for On-Page Optimisation.  If talk about the contents quality very first you didn't caught for them that what types contents you bring on your site and where you putt them to drive traffic either they matters with a duplicate issue or not.Google rolled Panda to getting rid of them from search results by saying that your contents are of low quality, and there's a lot of mannual penalties sending to webmasters to cover them. Your ranking will be demolished to reward the high quality sites, so here whose the sites holding high quality sites, perhaps Google's rich webmasters and investors who are claiming such like as after the Google Q3 Earnings ($14.1B) Report for Third Quarter 2012 Harshing Investors Related Recent Algo Updates at a forum discussion
Perhaps Panda and Penguin are not paying off after all, relevant results = lower incentive to click ads. 
I note the following in the report with some interest but haven't formed a conclusion about it yet. 
Paid clicks: Up 33% on a year over year basis, and up 6% on a sequential basis 
Cost per clicks: Down 12.77 compared to $2.21 for same period a year ago. 
 One more example that I really wants to share with you see a recent analysis report for top 20 sites in SERPs by a forum member...
You would not believe the backlink profiles! 99% pure unadulterated spam. Site-wide links from foreign websites, blog roll links, almost all (at least 90%) of the backlink profile on ALL of them comes from websites not even remotely related to the niche. I mean things we used to see about 10 years ago. I just don't have the words to describe the "spammyness", blatant and wide in the open. If I showed you the backlink profile of just one of the websites - you will probably punch your monitor and go get drunk. 
The above statement clears our minds for Google Algos are useless and not working to update SERPs for relevancy.If it right then why SEOs and Analysers are being forced to use Google's new features to develop their search ranking and visibility such like Google Disavow links Tool or it is not even over than does Google wants to double cross the investors making their investments for PPC Campaigns Budget or for forcing webmasters and developers to use Google's services or just to steer the Internet users from other sites to expelling them for Google products.
So in front of all these issues a few days ago a lot webmasters and marketers appeals to FTC for to confirm stepping out for an anti trust case against Google Inc for unfairly getting them rank down to steer away the potential costumers from their sites. See the FTC's Anti-Trust case against Google report here.

Google Q3 Earnings ($14.1B) Report for Third Quarter 2012 Harshing Investors Related Recent Algo Updates

On Friday 19,2012 afternoon a Press Release News for Google Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results that clears a tremedous drop down for Google Stock & Profit for including the revenues of $14.1 billion, including $2.58 billion from Motorola that nominates a 20% drop in profits.The early press release wirtten seems pending for completion because after it's release it becomes surprisingly a harshing news for Google's webmasters and investors. For which in reponse Google directly blaimimg for a little mistake on it's early release for earnings, The following is a statement the company provided to the Wall Street Journal explaining what happened:
Earlier this morning RR Donnelley, the financial printer, informed us that they had filed our draft 8K earnings statement without authorization. We have ceased trading on NASDAQ NDAQ -0.04% while we work to finalize the document. Once it’s finalized we will release our earnings, resume trading on NASDAQ and hold our earnings call as normal at 1:30 PM PT

Against this report the more noticeable factor for Google that is a formal but typical webmaster's and investor's reaction to Google earnings calls? webmasters who do not own Google stocks, and the reaction of those webmasters who own them and were hit by a recent Google update, like Penguin or Panda? Most are rejoicing.
     Commentedly webmasters talking on a forum discussion about this issue of Google reports for third quarter 2012 earnings some such as:
Perhaps Panda and Penguin are not paying off after all, relevant results = lower incentive to click ads. 
I note the following in the report with some interest but haven't formed a conclusion about it yet. 
Paid clicks: Up 33% on a year over year basis, and up 6% on a sequential basis 
Cost per clicks: Down 15% on a year over year basis, and down 3% on a sequential basis. 
Traffic acquisitions costs: $2.77 compared to $2.21 for same period a year ago. 

YouTube New Digital Thermometer in NonProfit Program

Just as before, YouTube's new features like Live stream, Play back, YouTube came again with a new feature tool "A digital Thermametre for non Profit videos" in their YouTub Nonprofit program, that will work as progress bar showing on your channel that takes on the role of the ‘thermometer’ that nonprofits raising money have used for years to represent their progress toward a goal.Additionally, a Campaign tab will show up on your channel, with a bar showing the progress toward your goa.

YouTube's digital thermameter means, you can check a full guidence before starting your campaigns and after completion of your campain YouTube's digital thermametre progress bar will show the overall progress of campain videos including the total number of publically video views that will ecncourage people to more share your videos as setting your goals to target that can be measured and seen by everyone who ‘contributes’ by watching it.
Signifiacantly more than 18000 organizations are included in YouTube's Nonprofit program, so the current feature actually is part of tool series to help their nonprofit program contributters in any possible ways as for turnning video views into greater awareness, petitions signed, laws changed, dollars raised, and lives saved. Last week similarly YouTube announces that all videos will rank highe with "new ranking factor Time Watched" instead of counting the total number of clicks.   

Google Real Time Analytics to Supports Profiles Track Instant Happening on your site

For the year 2011 Google Announced to launch Real Time Google Analytics titled as What’s happening on your site right now? that instantly reports to webmasters in Google Analytics about real time happen done on their sites. Google define it's Real Time Analytics as:
Currently, Google Analytics does a great job analyzing past performance. Today we’re very excited to bring real time data to Google Analytics with the launch of Google Analytics Real-Time: a set of new reports that show what’s happening on your site as it happens.
Real Time Analytics Includes the Following Features to report on:

  • Measuring your social media impact 
  • Campaign measurement before preparing an ad campaign
  • Accessing Real Time Analytics in Google Analytics New Version
Now Google make it done to support your profiles with Real Time Analytics that will allow you to see all your profile data Real Time Analytics by filtering it on your own choice as Google mentioned it as:
One of the biggest requests we've received was to show real time traffic per profile, which would also allow non-admin users to view real time reports. So today, we are really excited to announce that Real Time supports your profiles! This means that the data you see in real time is profile specific and obeys the filtering you set up for that profile. And this means any user with access to a profile can view the associated real time reports. You can choose and move between profiles using the standard profile-picker feature available in the upper left hand corner.
When viewing your real time reports keep in mind these changes. If the numbers are lower than you are used to, check your filters to see what traffic is being excluded. And if you use real time for debugging, be sure to use an unfiltered report for that purpose.

 It will make you much able to see very instant happenings on your site as it is great tool for rapid testing and debugging of your tracking code and now with profile support you can do the same when creating profile filters.


Real Time Traffice

Rearl Time also Tracks your Mobile SDK Traffic. It is not only for web pages but work to support your APPs Profiles to tracking and showing you your mobile SDK traffic.In case of implementing Real Time Analytics on your phones it will reports about when something goes viral about your site.


SEMPO FTC Anti Trust Case against Google Powered by Majority of FTC

anti trust case
After for a year's long FTC's (Federal Trade Commision) invetigation, four FTC commisionars come closer to prepare an anti-trust case against Google Inc, the No 1 search engine in the world a report from reuters, illegally used its dominance of the search market to hurt its rivals.In the spot light of, FTC recieving a complaint list consisting of a large number company names arguing about a huge crack down of agency on Google.SEMPO Letter to FTC.
 Most online company owners specially Google rivals from industries of travelling, shopping and entertainment, accusingly talk about Google's strategies for unfairly getting them ranked down in search results to steer Internet users away from their websites and toward Google products that provide similar services.Typically or naturally when users come to browsers they click on the top results either in organic search results or paid advertising. So it means if online marketers have to face a trouble of down ranking then they have only one option to promote their brands that is "more budget for more paid advertising."

During FTC's Invetigation Google make reply as:

Asked about any discussions with the FTC, Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said: "We are happy to answer any questions that regulators have about our business." The FTC declined to comment.During a congressional hearing in September 2011, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt denied that the company manipulated its search results. "May I simply say that I can assure you we've not cooked anything," he told the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel.
A report from Newyork Times centrelly pointed out issue for anti trust case between FTC and Google “whether Google manipulates search results to favor its own products, and makes it harder for competitors and their products to appear prominently on a results page.”


Anti Trust Case Progress. FTC Chairman Person Jon Leibowitz Said that:

In mid-September that he expected a decision in the case by the end of the year. European regulators are conducting a similar antitrust probe.If the agency finds that Google broke the law, the FTC and Google could hammer out a settlement that resolves the issues or, if settlement negotiations fail, the matter could end up in a lengthy, expensive court fight.The FTC announced in April that it had hired high-powered Washington lawyer Beth Wilkinson to lead the probe. The hiring was seen as a sign that the FTC was contemplating filing a lawsuit against Google.


Matt Cutts Confirm Availability of Google Disavow Links

After a long Matt Cutts announced  the new Google Webmaster Tools feature today during his PubCon keynote, and now available to all SEOs and webmasters to proceed with extreme caution.

  ON more briefing  Cutts said the goal with the launch is to keep the tool simple. To disavow links, simply all you have to do is upload a text file, with one URL per line (full domain or specific page), of links you want Google to ignore. These are the links that pointing to your site that you’re telling Google that you don’t trust.
Most sites should not use the Disvow Links with out using caution. 
  After uploading the file consisting of spam links Google will look at links you want disavowed as a “strong suggestion.” It can take several weeks to be disavowed, and more concerningly it is too much good if you wish to remove the bad links from the web, but this tool is for those backlinks you are unable to remove.

Proposingly Google launched it's Disvow Links tool to remove all paid links of bad quality pointed to your site and for which them you are untrsuty.

Google's Disavow Link's Works.

  • Simply go to Google Webmaster Tools.
  • Select your website.
  • Google will redirect you to upload a plain text file that will include all spam or your untrusty links you want to disavow.
Look for example files.
bad spam links



G-Mails Google Drive Google Calendar Files All In Google Search Results

Google always Stepped out by bringing periodically new features to be updated the SERPs as when you trying to find some, you should be able to find what you need quickly and easily without needing to think about where your required data placed, whether it's in your email or out on the public web. So for this Google in last August run out a Field Trial to asking for sign up to interact your all Gmail data with personal search results.

And from the Public response Google stated as:
We’ve gotten very positive feedback from those of you testing it out -- such as this note: “The Gmail results feature is awesome! The fact that it's all integrated into one screen is huge.” Many testers have requested being able to find Drive files as well -- as one of you put it, “It would be awesome if I could search my google drive from google search as well :)”. 
G-mail Google drive Google calendar

Now Google's existing Field Trial simultaneously includes Gmail & Google Drive information in search results is being expanded to work not only from Google.com, but also within Gmail itself. As Google mixing up your personal search results with Gmails & Google drive relevant emails and file in order to making you able for when you  type a search in Gmail you'll instantly see relevant emails as well as results from Google Drive, Google Calendar and more.


Field Trial


Just you need to have a G-mail account in English language to join the existing field Trail to sign up to include  your all data in Google search results as well as in G-mail search box.

YouTube new Video Ranking Factor Time Watched Video Optimization for Time Watched

Now in YouTube analytics all YouTube videos will be ranked including their viewers engagement time factor.
As YouTube says about it's new ranking as..
  The experimental results of this change have proven positive -- less clicking, more watching. We expect the amount of time viewers spend watching videos from search and across the site to increase.  As with previous optimisations to our discovery features, this should benefit your channel if your videos drive more viewing time across YouTube.  
YouTube video optimization
The main reason to add the time ranking factor is only due to YouTube lastly made the changes for thier  ongoing efforts to focus their video discovery features on watch time, and follows changes that they made to Suggested Videos in March, and recent improvements to YouTube Analytics.

Now your all videos getting ranked higher depending upon for how much time they watched instead of counting the total clicks for a video.On October 11,2012 YouTube added new Time Watched reporting to YouTube Analytics, due to which it becomes easy for you to check the YouTube analytics performance of your videos and channel by using more YouTube tools. there for video produces should optimised their videos as for their fans that they love and share, and encourage them to discover more of what YouTube offers, and you’ll see your own fan base grow, too

How Google Rank Web pages using what user metrics

Here the thing that concerns for online webpage optimisers to think "what metrics are being used by Google search engine to rank web pages." There is an assumption which makes a sense and creates some questions, Assuming Google is being truthful when they say they don't use Analytics data to rank web pages.

--What data could they be using to gather user metrics? Adsense? Chrome? Cookies from the Google search page to see how long searchers stay on a SERP before clicking back? --Exactly what metrics could they be gathering from their sources, and which metrics would they not be able to access? --Once they gather these metrics, how are they interpreting them? For example, can they tell the difference between a bounce that happens because a visitor got all they wanted from a site and a bounce that happens because the searcher didn't like the page?
A forum discusion points out being debated on several issues like not conducting user chrome instead of using click-stream data that some ISP or other sells them or they could be using DoubleClick cookies somehow.

But it just seems like a question or guess by experts about the current strategy that Google implies on ranking the web pages.More over on wired.com even the Panda question for those impactedd by Panda, a Q&A debate between Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts mentioned when Panda first launched.
Inspiringly Google makes it's Algorithms updated time to time, so the smaller sites with low quality or non branding or the sites haviving a poor link graph, a high bounce rate with low interaction and *gulp* too many affiliate links likely hurt a small site to a larger degree than a more established and well known sites affected by Panda that Panda produces a site rating that ranges from -100% to +100% which is calculated based on the user metrics of your site compared to others in your niche. 
I think here the "quality matters for promoting or demoting a site." So if Panda or a main algo directly interacted to a site ranking then all above Google service are just like some developing tools that only used indirectly by Google to collect page investigation for their record that tells them Exit Rate, Pageviews, probably time on page as a minimum.

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Google Rolled Out Officially Page Layout Algorithm Update affects ~0.7% of English queries noticeably




Google Rolled Out Officially Page Layout Algorithm Update affects ~0.7% of English queries noticeably

Yesterday on 10 October Matt Cuts announcement via Twitter that they officially rolled out Page layout Algorithm that was first released in January, 2012.Google is being briefing this rather than scrolling down the page past a slew of ads, users want to see content right away. So sites that don’t have much content “above-the-fold” can be affected by this change.”
On the same way, “when a current visitor clicks to come on your website and user's desired part of website  does  not have rich content above-the-fold or filled with a large fraction of the site’s initial screen real estate to ads, that’s not a very good user experience and might become the cause of applying Page Layout Algorithm. Such sites may not rank as highly going forward.”

The firstly launched Algoritms affects 1 percent of search queries. The currently updated algorithm affects slightly less than previous .7% and only of English search queries.Here's just a single recommendation for webmaster to check their websites Google analytics via Browser Size Tool to see how you page looked by visitors and how much content vs. ads shows up above the fold.

In case wether you believe that you are affected from Page Layou, then you might waiting for a next one some are reporting as Google advise in front of their Page Layout Algoritm as..
“If you decide to update your page layout, the page layout algorithm will automatically reflect the changes as we re-crawl and process enough pages from your site to assess the changes. How long that takes will depend on several factors, including the number of pages on your site and how efficiently Googlebot can crawl the content. On a typical website, it can take several weeks for Googlebot to crawl and process enough pages to reflect layout changes on the site.”
Previous Algorithms Updates:

Google's New Penguin Data Refresh A Threat to Black SEOs