Panda slapped me silly....:-(

[JB777]

Originally Posted by Dumkist

Here you Guys Go..this will make you want to kill yourself tonight..watch the video below..but before you do !... lock up your guns and flush the key down the toilet..I must warn you this will shock you.

How Google's Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices Forever - Whiteboard Friday | SEOmoz

Good find.

Looks like it's back to the drawing board. Need to start testing new mechanics.

[emigre]

So, according to the video, popularity is the new seo.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by emigre

So, according to the video, popularity is the new seo.

Hi emigre,

Popularity has always been the primary SEO for Google, what do you think PageRank measures?

I wouldn't buy into every characterization implied in that video, after all it is Fish Randkin and he's famous for hollywood style extreme over-the-top characterizations. For example, Google doesn't have a algorithm to measure humor, grade anecdotes, what's cool, hip or other things that humans are still struggling to master.

It is a little bit more basic than he has characterized, but still a whole new set of metrics.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Dumkist

Here you Guys Go..this will make you want to kill yourself tonight..watch the video below..but before you do !... lock up your guns and flush the key down the toilet..I must warn you this will shock you.

How Google's Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices Forever - Whiteboard Friday | SEOmoz

This rehashed video is talking about old Google Webmaster guidlines, lol.

Everything in the video is at least a year or two old, it's all website basics.

Another guru milking traffic.

[dp40oz]

Originally Posted by yukon

This rehashed video is talking about old Google Webmaster guidlines, lol.

Everything in the video is at least a year or two old, it's all website basics.

Another guru milking traffic.

Agreed.. Btw bounce rate will never be a factor in rankings, im surprised he propagated this myth. High bounce rates can be great. It shows you have supplied the searcher with the exact information they wanted on the page they landed. Many great sites have high bounce rates, it determines nothing about quality.

[TBInternetMarketing]

Originally Posted by dp40oz

Agreed.. Btw bounce rate will never be a factor in rankings, im surprised he propagated this myth. High bounce rates can be great. It shows you have supplied the searcher with the exact information they wanted on the page they landed. Many great sites have high bounce rates, it determines nothing about quality.

Yea exactly! I must say I have always wondered this about bounce rate. Someone searching for 'dentist in new york' finds the site with big telephone number at the top. They write down the number and then close the webpage.

Boom...they have got exactly what they were looking for, but they bounced the site! Surely Google are smart enough to be aware of this kind of thing.

[danhoff]

Originally Posted by TBInternetMarketing

Yea exactly! I must say I have always wondered this about bounce rate. Someone searching for 'dentist in new york' finds the site with big telephone number at the top. They write down the number and then close the webpage.

Boom...they have got exactly what they were looking for, but they bounced the site! Surely Google are smart enough to be aware of this kind of thing.

Interesting ..

[MBDirect]

Thanks for that SEOMOZ link. Very informative.

Another Panda question:

Does anyone know what happenes to the DOMAIN itself once Google has banned one's AdSense account? I understand that I could never open another AdSense account under the same name and tax ID once Google has shut it down. But to be clear, my question is, yes or no, will they or won't they ever index and rank the domains that were in that banned account?

My assumption is the answer is Yes, because how else could old domains be sold to new owners?

Anyone?

Thanks in advance,
Whitecar

[Ben Armstrong]

Originally Posted by dp40oz

Agreed.. Btw bounce rate will never be a factor in rankings, im surprised he propagated this myth. High bounce rates can be great. It shows you have supplied the searcher with the exact information they wanted on the page they landed. Many great sites have high bounce rates, it determines nothing about quality.

I don't see how you can say it will never be a factor.

Why couldn't it be one of many factors?

What if there was a website with only 1 word on it. Sure, that word might be exactly the information that the visitor needed but does that mean google won't appreciate websites with more than 1 word of content and therefore rank them higher?

[MBDirect]

Does anyone know the answer to this one?

If Google shuts down and bans your AdSense account, we know that we can't open it again. But does this ban also apply to the DOMAINS in that account?

I have rationalized that the answer is no because domains can be sold to new owners.

Can the DOMAINS in a Google-banned Adsense account ever be indexed/ranked again?

Anyone?

Thanks.

[LucySands]

Im sorry to hear about Google slapping your websites, I, too (and many others) have been slapped big time. And what's harder is that my clients dont understand these things...Google updates, even SEO process, etc...

[dagaul101]

Let's hope that Google is working out the little bugs on their Panda updates and hopefully you will be back where you belong

[tonyalves]

Originally Posted by tonyalves

Isn't it a bit too early to panic? Sometimes good sites are negatively affected right after a Google update, but shortly after they bounce back.

If the sites contain good, unique content, I would not worry too much.

I would just keep adding new unique content and building back links and I am sure that they will get their original rankings back, or even better rankings in no time.

Here is what happened to my main site.

It went from PR3 to PR2 in the last Panda update. However, search engine positions didn't seems to be affected that much, because traffic remained about the same.

It has remained PR2 up until this morning when I got up and sat at the computer to check my overnight earnings and my emails and got a very pleasant surprise.

My site is back to PR3

This reinforces what I said in my previous post... If you are doing things right and your site gets affected by a Google update, don't worry about it, just keep doing the same things (adding unique content and building backlinks) and before you know it, it will bounce back.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by tonyalves

Here is what happened to my main site.

It went from PR3 to PR2 in the last Panda update. However, search engine positions didn't seems to be affected that much, because traffic remained about the same.

It has remained PR2 up until this morning when I got up and sat at the computer to check my overnight earnings and my emails and got a very pleasant surprise.

My site is back to PR3

This reinforces what I said in my previous post... If you are doing things right and your site gets affected by a Google update, don't worry about it, just keep doing the same things (adding unique content and building backlinks) and before you know it, it will bounce back.

Are you asserting that that the Panda update is somehow related to PR data from toolbar exports? I don't see how you are making that leap of logic, can you please elaborate on how you think the two seemingly unrelated items are connected?

[dp40oz]

Originally Posted by tonyalves

Here is what happened to my main site.

It went from PR3 to PR2 in the last Panda update. However, search engine positions didn't seems to be affected that much, because traffic remained about the same.

It has remained PR2 up until this morning when I got up and sat at the computer to check my overnight earnings and my emails and got a very pleasant surprise.

My site is back to PR3

This reinforces what I said in my previous post... If you are doing things right and your site gets affected by a Google update, don't worry about it, just keep doing the same things (adding unique content and building backlinks) and before you know it, it will bounce back.

PR has absolutely nothing to do with Panda.

[jimcal]

Hi,
Google is google and not much we can do about it. I think they will bring quality content back to the top eventually.