When is the next Panda Update Predicted?

[Erku]

Hello everyone. Does anyone know when the next Panda update coming? We have made number of improvements on our site in the past month and still no results. Thinking possibly it will be apparent when google makes another Panda update?

If your site has recovered from Panda, how long did it take? Was it gradual or all of the sudden?

Thank you.

[EditorialGuy]

Isn't Panda a rolling update these days? It seems to me that the timing of when an update occurred (or didn't) is getting harder and harder to pin down.

[ZydoSEO]

No one here knows when the next update is coming. Panda updates are now rolled out over 10 or so days each month or so. Prior to this, Panda was rolled out on a given date or over a couple of days.

Depending on the timing of your changes, recovery should come in the next update or the 2nd update after the changes (if your changes went live immediately before an update).

One example of recovery I implemented involved pushing unique content out to 700 or 7000 listing pages (rougly 10%) which previously had no unique content... only duplicative listing teasers which all appeared on multiple category and subject pages. We pushed the content out on Sep 31, 2011. On the evening of Oct 13, 2011 (2 weeks later) Google rolled out the Panda 2.5.2 update. The very next day on Oct 14, 2011 we saw Google organic traffic literally double.

So back then, it was drastic and immediate. Today, since it's rolled out over many days it could be gradual over the rollout timeframe. Regardless, it will definitely be noticeable.

[chalkywhite]

Id say soon as an uber large crawl happend 3 days back..always a sign something is brewing.