Types of Backlinks in Post Panda

[BillWynne]

As with many webmasters/marketers, I finally took a huge hit from the Panda. I have been analyzing the site and have decided to submit my list of ideas for feedback.

My ranking went from #2 to #14 on the Big G. I have way more backlinks than all of the sites that surpassed me.

1. Forum profiles are no longer valuable or even harmful?
2. I have many sites hosted on the same server?
3. I let seolinkvine post articles to my site automatically, duplicate content?
4. There are a lot of backlinks on PR0 and PR1 sites?
5. Allowed content that was not related to the niche?
6. Someone else sabotaged my ranking somehow? Is this possible?

Those are the main ideas I have and would love to get some feedback before my other sites get hit.

Cheers

[maxrezn]

Possibly someone did a Xrumer blast of thousands of links to your site?

Did you use web 2.0 properties and higher PR sites to send the low PR backlinks to or did you just send them straight to your money site?

[linkbuildr]

Panda had 0 to do with links. The links you are getting are not what Google likes nor wants, so a good chunk most likely got devalued.

[bermuda]

The idea of copied materials and duplicate contents seems to be the issue in my personal opinion and you can find a lot of top-ranking websites with lots of links which come from forums, profiles and even zero PR pages because one-way links, especially when you state that your previous ranks were caused by them and you were actually happy with your stats. Panda has hit a lot of websites but portals like article directories and similar projects experienced huge blows.

Of course not all of them but surfing the net, you will find many sites which have gone down the ladder of ranks not because of links but due to the contents appearing on their pages which might have been either duplicates or some other factors too can be named like higher keyword densities which are not helpful at all these days. Your main competitors could be doing well, sometimes because their sites contain contents which have remained stable, and seeming to be original and unique.

[BillWynne]

Originally Posted by maxrezn

Possibly someone did a Xrumer blast of thousands of links to your site?

Did you use web 2.0 properties and higher PR sites to send the low PR backlinks to or did you just send them straight to your money site?

I wondered if someone did something like that to blast me out of the top spot, so that is possible. Just like getting put in the sandbox...

Straight to money site... what is the concept you are speaking of? Sending them to web 2.0 sites. Is that a similar concept to the link wheel?

[BillWynne]

Originally Posted by linkbuildr

Panda had 0 to do with links. The links you are getting are not what Google likes nor wants, so a good chunk most likely got devalued.

That is one thing I have thought after reading more and more about it.
Do you know of a list of backlink values in the post panda world?

1. edu and gov versus com
2. Forum profiles versus blog commenting versus inline text links
etc...

[BillWynne]

Originally Posted by bermuda

The idea of copied materials and duplicate contents seems to be the issue in my personal opinion and you can find a lot of top-ranking websites with lots of links which come from forums, profiles and even zero PR pages because one-way links, especially when you state that your previous ranks were caused by them and you were actually happy with your stats. Panda has hit a lot of websites but portals like article directories and similar projects experienced huge blows.

Of course not all of them but surfing the net, you will find many sites which have gone down the ladder of ranks not because of links but due to the contents appearing on their pages which might have been either duplicates or some other factors too can be named like higher keyword densities which are not helpful at all these days. Your main competitors could be doing well, sometimes because their sites contain contents which have remained stable, and seeming to be original and unique.

I am going to remove the duplicate content. I have made it a practice to keep adding content to my site but the competitors in one niche rank high with maybe a maximum of 20 pages and no fresh content, what gives? Ideas?

[dminorfmajor]

Keep on pumpin' man. Keep building quality backlinks to your quality content and Google will come back around. That's what everyone will tell you and they're not copying each other, it's just the truth.

People look for shortcuts entirely too often and that always leads down bad roads like Blackhat SEO, losing interest, or giving up entirely when "short cuts" don't work.

[BillWynne]

Originally Posted by dminorfmajor

Keep on pumpin' man. Keep building quality backlinks to your quality content and Google will come back around. That's what everyone will tell you and they're not copying each other, it's just the truth.

People look for shortcuts entirely too often and that always leads down bad roads like Blackhat SEO, losing interest, or giving up entirely when "short cuts" don't work.

Right on...
Can you take a look at this post as well please?
Blog Commenting On PR0 Blogs For SEO Backlinks