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