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The industry dubbed the mysterious changes as the “Phantom Update” since whilst something appeared to have happened, there was no confirmation. Many thought that it was perhaps a Panda update, but Google dismissed this.

According to Paul Edmondson, the impact of the update was felt at HubPages on May 3rd. The site saw a 22% reduction in Google traffic sitewide, which Paul described as “pretty brutal”.