{"id":2364,"date":"2012-05-09T15:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ypm.com\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2012-05-09T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T23:01:49","slug":"googles-april-updates-bigger-tiered-index-document-ranking-sitelink-changes-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/googles-april-updates-bigger-tiered-index-document-ranking-sitelink-changes-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s April Updates: Bigger &#038; Tiered Index, Document Ranking, Sitelink Changes &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page_w\">\n<p>If it\u2019s the first Friday of the month, it must be time for Google to share its latest list of search quality updates. And, like clockwork, Google didn\u2019t disappoint today \u2014 the company <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/insidesearch.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/search-quality-highlights-53-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">has posted<\/a> a list of 53 changes that affect search results.<\/p>\n<p>This list is particularly interesting because of all the upheaval happening this month, what with Panda updates <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/winners-losers-from-googles-webspam-update-119493\" target=\"_blank\">3.5<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/panda-update-3-6-on-april-27th-120227\" target=\"_blank\">3.6<\/a> occurring in an eight-day span, along with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-launches-update-targeting-webspam-in-search-results-119295\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin update<\/a> and a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-launches-update-targeting-webspam-in-search-results-119295\" target=\"_blank\">Google screwup related to parked domains<\/a>. Yeah, April was a crazy month for SEO folks.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/googles-april-search-updates-120370\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it\u2019s the first Friday of the month, it must be time for Google to share its latest list of search quality updates. And, like clockwork, Google didn\u2019t disappoint today \u2014 the company has posted a list of 53 changes that affect search results. This list is particularly interesting because of all the upheaval happening &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google\u2019s April Updates: Bigger &amp; Tiered Index, Document Ranking, Sitelink Changes &amp; More<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google\u2019s April Updates: Bigger &amp; Tiered Index, Document Ranking, Sitelink Changes &amp; More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If it\u2019s the first Friday of the month, it must be time for Google to share its latest list of search quality updates. 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