Google EMD - Day 8. Whats happening guys?

by sdlive
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My traffic down 10% still..

This EMD feels like a panda. penguin to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author CletusVanDamme
    I wish my traffic was only down 10% - it's more like 99% for me...
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    • Profile picture of the author GeoFan
      Originally Posted by CletusVanDamme View Post

      I wish my traffic was only down 10% - it's more like 99% for me...
      Cletus,

      • Was your off-page SEO weak?

      What did your backlink profile look like?

      Did you have a natural backlink profile with many good quality, relevant inbound links?

      • Was your on-page content weak?
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  • Profile picture of the author sdlive
    this is from 36k hits to 31k
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  • Profile picture of the author boosters
    Don't care whether it is Day 8 or 100.. do your daily homework.. that's it..
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    • Profile picture of the author searchnearby
      Originally Posted by boosters View Post

      Don't care whether it is Day 8 or 100.. do your daily homework.. that's it..
      Homework on what???
      Google says it's not a penalty and only intended to reduce the positive effects on LOW Quality EMD's but it has in many cases taken sites out of the index!!! Google seems to have targeted specific verticals that have a lot of EMD's like car repair and garage door and simply taken them out, low quality or otherwise. Many cases they have replaced them with Citation Sites?!?
      We have over 150 sites, some EMD some not
      Half of our EMD sites got hit and some of those that got hit have totally disappeared from the results. Some did have poor quality for sure but some of them had custom content of about 400 words written by english speaking writers and they also were removed.
      As with any of these "updates" we will sit tight for 2 weeks and see what happens next. I have no doubt after doing this for 5 years that we can only make things worse by acting to soon.
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      • Profile picture of the author boosters
        Originally Posted by searchnearby View Post

        Homework on what???
        Google says it's not a penalty and only intended to reduce the positive effects on LOW Quality EMD's but it has in many cases taken sites out of the index!!! Google seems to have targeted specific verticals that have a lot of EMD's like car repair and garage door and simply taken them out, low quality or otherwise. Many cases they have replaced them with Citation Sites?!?
        We have over 150 sites, some EMD some not
        Half of our EMD sites got hit and some of those that got hit have totally disappeared from the results. Some did have poor quality for sure but some of them had custom content of about 400 words written by english speaking writers and they also were removed.
        As with any of these "updates" we will sit tight for 2 weeks and see what happens next. I have no doubt after doing this for 5 years that we can only make things worse by acting to soon.
        I am not using EMD.. so my word mean do proper SEO which you do daily..
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    There was also a Panda update at about the same time.
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  • Profile picture of the author fanta81
    My blog too got hit but I have not lost hope. I am working hard on it because I know that I can get to top position with great content and good on page and off page SEO techniques.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ledux
    Got a little more visitors yesterday, My domain isn't EMD so, probably I'm getting some of the leftover traffic from other sites lol Well, not really sure is it, because of the update or just a good day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Captain_Morgan
    Still not outlined on what basis were sites hit, yes i do understand it was a panda update but what was it about?? grammer and bad quality articles????

    Mike whats your view on the panda update?????
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    • Profile picture of the author valvarga
      Sites and traffic is still down, no improvements to report. Obviously income is down too.
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  • Profile picture of the author sdlive
    Cletus, can u show google analytics screen shot about your site? Thanks

    avg duration
    bounce rate, etc etc
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  • Profile picture of the author sdlive
    yeah my traffic maybe down, but i can see how to improve it back up.
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  • Profile picture of the author OmarNegron
    One of my sites suffered total obliteration and went down to around spot 200 (from 2-3).

    Then went to bed yesterday got up and it is up to spot 14 now. What did I do?

    NOTHING.

    What I did notice after though was how many people are talking about having a page over optimized and having the keyword in the ALT tag is not good, the exact keywords in the title tags, etc, which I think is something I will start practicing. I want to keep the site as normal as possible and make it relevant to the search query and not OVER OPTIMIZE it.

    I also have what I think are strong contextual backlinks pointing to the domain as well.

    But again, I did NOTHING, and so far it went back up. But I will be editing my site a bit to make sure I'm not over optimized for anything.

    -Omar
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  • Profile picture of the author jtooder
    Had the same thing happen to me, #1 to nowhere back to #14 or so a day or 2 after.
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    • Profile picture of the author CletusVanDamme
      Originally Posted by GeoFan View Post

      Cletus,

      • Was your off-page SEO weak?

      What did your backlink profile look like?

      Did you have a natural backlink profile with many good quality, relevant inbound links?

      • Was your on-page content weak?
      Originally Posted by sdlive View Post

      Cletus, can u show google analytics screen shot about your site? Thanks

      avg duration
      bounce rate, etc etc
      Hey - ok here is a screenshot from one of my blog sites - I can't post the picture or direct link because my post count is to low, but here is the link - you would have to copy and paste it to see it. Date range is the 27th to today - hopefully this works:

      i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y396/cletusvd/traffic-plunge_zps81f2f634.png

      As you can see traffic decrease starts on the 28th.

      As far as the back links go, I started off getting some through directories and then Facebook, twitter etc. - I also got some good natural ones from similar genre sites - I never went overboard with getting links.

      The only hits I got today from google on this site are from people who had personalization still on - no real new hits. The site is pretty much dead in google...
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      • Profile picture of the author condra
        My traffic has been decimated.
        Time for some new strategies.
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  • Profile picture of the author sdlive
    your keyword density needs to be backed up by bounce ratio + time duration + avg page views
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  • Profile picture of the author Surminga
    I was down about 40% but have left it still for the week and it's only just getting back to its normal stages but still down about 10%.

    Simple answer to updates just let the dust settle then see where you are in a weeks time.
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  • Profile picture of the author bsbear
    Just start building up your SEO backlink portfolio.. just like before.
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