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Late on yesterday Matt cutts of google tweeted how panda is now live in all english serps.. In other words panda has hit the UK..

Now having just a quick look at the serps I do notice a fair drop for those article sites and Q&A sites with no real content so it seems to be working..

The one interesting comment I read in the official google blog post from here:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-quality-sites-algorithm-goes.html

Was a comment from some called “hypertexture” about how the keyword Jersey was updated and not including the like of New Jersey. This has always been a massive problem for google. I do not fully monitor many local terms as that’s not my niche but I know of many terms that “used” to pull up .au and USA results like the above.

One of the killers terms google always hard problems with was somewhere+hotel when the UK place name in also a USA place name e.g. Jersey and New Jersey, York, Birmingham .. the list goes on… I’ve just checked “Jersey Hotels” and it’s interesting to see now NJ isn’t getting into the serps until the 4th page here in the UK so has panda helped fix the GEO too ???

Of course more info to come as stats for a full day aren’t in yet and many serps to check.

I’ve just been sent this email from bview (thanks)

I asked someone how they found out to contact me to sort this problem and they pointed me to your recent posts – hope you don’t mind me getting in touch, but thought this might be useful info for your readers.

Firstly, we’ve spoken with Google and asked them to remove this Equifax data ASAP. They have agreed to do this, but we don’t know how long it will take.

The Equifax data is out of date, and Google didn’t inform us that they were going to start displaying it. Had they contacted us prior to this information going live, we would not have approved of them using this data. The EFX score was included as part of a feed of data we gave Google a long time ago (2+ years maybe?), but they declined to use it at the time.

To the best of my knowledge, we removed this Equifax info from our site (bview.co.uk) around 18 months to two years ago in response to feedback from businesses, and we’re as suprised as everyone else to see it suddenly appear on Google.

We’re sorry for the hassle that this has caused, but about all we can do right now is wait for Google to fix the mistake.

Feel free to drop me a mail, or tweet me if you’d like any updates or clarifications.

Simon

BView.co.uk

So great news you no longer need to contact Bview just wait for google to up the info.

First spotted this issue on Friday 1st April 2011 http://www.seohome.co.uk/2011/04/01/google-places-adds-equifax-scores-to-places-page/

If you missed it on Friday 1st April google added data from bview.co.uk to the google place business pages.

The problem was that clients of mine phoned asking “how do I get rid the a Equifax score on our google place page” at first I read about the data from bview which is a data dump from Equifax who are a credit scoring company here in the UK. As quote on the blog post from April the first here: Google places adds Equifax scores to places page you can not remove a company listing.

I’ve just found out from a client who phone bview that by emailing them on sales@bview.co.uk  you can request the score to be remove from your listing on bview and in time google will up date the data (may take a few days or maybe weeks all down to google)

Check out the update here: http://www.seohome.co.uk/2011/04/07/update-on-equifax-google-places-issue/

So if you want it removed this is the way to go about it.

If you want to sort it out even faster its pretty simple to knock the score on to the more details link by adding enough data above it including the brands that you sell..