Smashed by Panda

by Strangiato

Posted: 12 years ago 17 replies

Well it looks like I got hit hard by Panda 3.2. My page view went from 800-1100 page views per day down to 300-400 per day. I used to get 60%+ traffic from Google, now down to around 15%

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I have one adsense banner at the top, and 3 affiliate banners below the fold on the homepage. I do use wikipedia as a guide for my content, but rewrite it before posting. I do stilll have some straight copy/paste that I'm working on cleaning up and rewriting. Anyway, can anyone give me some pointers on bringing my ranks back up?

#panda #smashed

Al amin 12 years ago

You should add some more quality content in your site to satisfy panda
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tradeglobus 12 years ago

Content is king. Add some more unique content to your site.
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lutherlars 12 years ago

Remove that top banner.
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- Strangiato 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lutherlars
  
  Remove that top banner.
  
  The Adsense banner? I thought about that, but it has been such a nice producer.....:p
  
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  cagliostro 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Strangiato
  
  The Adsense banner? I thought about that, but it has been such a nice producer.....:p
  
  Don't listen to anyone.
  
  This is the best online photo website, owned by AMAZON.
  
  See the top header ad:
  
  Articles: Digital Photography Review
  
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mosthost 12 years ago

Why are you so sure it's 'Panda' that got you?
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Paul Gram 12 years ago

Like someone said above, why are you stating that this is Panda related? What kind of data and testing have you done to come to that conclusion?
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thatkeywordguy 12 years ago

One thing to do would be to remove those trackbacks.

That's probably not too panda related but, not helping much either.
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Brendan Mace 12 years ago

Search engine traffic goes up and down all the time. It's damn near impossible to determine the cause of movement. I wouldn't worry too much yet. The change could be only temporary.
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retsek 12 years ago

You might want to try moving the content more up on the page. Move the images after the 2 or 3rd paragraph.

They're also hiding your share buttons.
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- Brendan Mace 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by retsek
  
  You might want to try moving the content more up on the page. Move the images after the 2 or 3rd paragraph.
  
  They're also hiding your share buttons.
  
  This might be the case. Google's new changes seem to be concerned with the content that appears above the fold. The main focus was on the amount of ads in the 'above the fold' portion. But it's highly possible that google now pays particular attention to all content at the top of your posts.
  
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  Strangiato 12 years ago
  
  I'm not sure that this is Panda related, but it does seem like on Helluva coincidence if it's not. In checking analytics, I see a massive drop mid week this past week. This is just organic Google search
  
  http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3.../Analytics.jpg
  
  I am well aware that ranking fluctuate all the time, but to see my high ranking keywords and images that have been page 1 for months drop out makes me wonder.
  
  Thanks for all of the advice that you folks have given. I will start to reorganize now...
  
  Any more advice is appreciated!!
  
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danlew 12 years ago

I think you should read this to cope up with Google Panda:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-download.html
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- Strangiato 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by danlew
  
  I think you should read this to cope up with Google Panda:
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-download.html
  
  Thanks Dan - I see my problem right at #1. This site is only 10 months old.
  
  I guess I squeaked by the first panda update, but got hit with this one.
  
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  bobcarlsjr 12 years ago
  
  err no.. my sites are all <5months old.. all still on page 1 google..
  
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Deepikarajpal 12 years ago

my site also get penalized by this Panda Update..get harm in term of ranking from page 1 to page 3 or one keyword also disappear from ranking
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linkbuildr 12 years ago

nearly all duplicate content and its a thin affiliate...no brainer for Panda here.
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