Panda 2.2 Confirmed Live: My Site is Decimated! What Now?

Pretty awful that we're all basically at the mercy of Google, isn't it?

Was there anything out of the ordinary with the site that was hit? Sometimes it can take just a handful of questionable backlinks to put a site on Google's radar.

Well my best website got a huge boost yesterday. So i'm not complaining lol.
Two others seemed to have been pounded.

I now need analyze the differences between them since all these have the same quality of content, But different backlinking types and speed of backlinking.

mmm..I was just reading up on it as well.

I read Google regular checks for hidden text. The two of my sites that were affected used a theme with a header image. It's displayed using <a href="link">text</a>, but that class has a -9999px text-indent and it just shows a clickable header logo.
Would that count as hidden text, anybody?

Just suck it up and try something else. Obviously what you did with these other sites didn't work. Now you just need to test and find something that does.

So is your "best" website a scraper site then? Kind of..weak..

Panda is supposedly only targeting scraper sites. You know, those sites you can buy for $20 from DP forum. If you still operate such sites...uhm..maybe it's time to wake up.

my sites all done badly in the SERP's before Panda, and they are doing badly after... i suppose I should be grateful they're consistent.

Well, for me, the sites to which I had done contextual link building are strong and even higher on ranks, but the sites to which I had done only heavy profile link building (Angela/Paul) and SB - the ranks vanished, So, I think, PANDA - value more CONTEXTUAL link building, Isn't?

Me too, but mine was on June 6-7th. It was also one of my better sites. 4 years old, ranked #5 for a phrase that gets 50,000 exact monthly searches, about 40 posts, 4000 backlinks on YSE. All 40 posts hand written by me. No duplicate content, no scraped content, no AdSense. God knows what Google was thinking.

If there was anything fishy at all, it was the fact that I had 2 more sites in the same niche targeting 2 different keywords and the homepages of all 3 looked similar in that all of them reviewed the same 3 products. None of my sites were moved by Panda 1.0 (except Ezine articles and an ArticlesBase article). This was the only one that moved by what I thought was Panda 2. But apparently there was NO Panda on June 7th. It was today/y'day!

So I wonder what hit me! I'm thinking about submitting a reconsideration request! If you and I can figure out what was wrong with our sites we could fix them; but they were our better sites and hardly anything wrong with them. So I don't know what to fix.

Something I did notice is that when I search for the site by the domain name, like mysitedomainname without the .com on Google search, it gets listed with Category pages listed below like in Amazon where it says Books, Videos, Electronics etc.

I don't know what that means!

If anybody's interested, I wrote more about it on this post

Ouch, that's harsh. Try removing any duplicate content from your site. Also, make sure your site is not a link farm. Hope that helps.

Hi all!

If you site is a wordpress site make sure to block the spiders from you plugin folder....

Cheers

Same thins happened to me i went from Page 2 to nowhere and now after 1 month of constant link building and fresh content i am back to Page 4 (bouncing between page 3 - 4)

- What i did was write fresh content. I didn't even higher a write just wrote what i felt should be decent enough to be read with keyword in the post atleast 3 times.

- 3 Tiered Profile links

- Went on fiverr and ordered contextual links on blog posts.

Maybe Google panda is really focusing on reverse ip to find spammed websites? It might be best to know what neighbor hoods your websites ip is associated with these days.

I am also seeing that Panda is extremely good for lower quality thin affiliate sites. After a lull of 6 months, my spammy Amazon affiliate sites started making money again and I just had the best month with Amazon.

This just goes to show that running sites like this is similar to the stock market and you need to diversify your portfolio!

Having a number of different types of sites with different types of content, back link strategies, and monetization is essential.

Don't change your site and expect it to come back asap.

Panda is not an algoritmic change but a 'script' they run once in a while. That unfortunately means that if you were punished, you will stay punished until they run the next batch.

I thought google doesn't "punish" you for back link strategies?

The thought was that it would become trivial for competitors to get your site "punished" and get you out of the top 10... so they take away points but no penalty.

That sound right?

maybe just wait the Full Version of Panda.... i heard from someone said that this Panda still in Beta Version ..

CMIIW

Im sorry.. Double Post

I have a new site, with good quality unique content being placed on the site every week, well SEO'd for keyword and has a backlinking campaign in place.

Fairly new, only 2 months old, climbed and settled at page 2 for about 3 weeks , with little fluctuations probably between 19-23. The panda update hits and for the past 2 weeks, its been dancing all over, from 20-35, on a steady decline.

Hopefully it'll bounce back, no idea why it decrease its ranking after Panda though, my site is apparently exactly what Google wants! Still chasing a page one ranking.

Google Panda affects lots my site's and one of my friend's site's also, ranking gone down..and her sites was with quality content but still, I don't know Y ?

Wow my site is actually all over the place today, over the course of 4 or so hours, its danced from 32 to 25 to 30 to 31 and now back to 25.

Have you considered the possibility that it has nothing to do specifically with the Panda update? You say your sites are all similar and since Google is actually a machine, it should treat them all similarly.

I suspect you have received a manual or algorithmic penalty on that one site and might be able to pull it out of the dumpster with the right effort. #1 to #10 or #20 is a Panda update hit. #1 to #651 is a penalty, NOT a Panda update problem.

I've written an FAQ with a list of stuff you might want to check to see if you've crossed a line and Google noticed: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...deindexed.html

@ dp40oz Are you able to find any of your inner pages?

Im looking on the bright side and Im thinking it may not be Panda update, but I do think something is going on. I have a site where traffic dropped about 80% last week. But with this site it usually gets hit 1-2 times a year and disappears from Google except for a few of my inner pages. But it usually comes back within a few weeks, stronger than ever. Or the reason my site disappeared also is because I build too many backlinks at once. So that can be another reason why my site disappeared.

My suggestion is to take the wait and see approach. Continue adding pages, backlinks whatever you do to get traffic. Maybe even tweak your site a bit and Im sure it will be back soon.

add one new page and re-submit a new sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools

The purpose of Panda is to get web admins to create sites that are targetted at users, and to bring unique content to the web rather than duplicates, or re-hashed duplicates, Google wants every one to have a professional presence, meaning unique content and quality backlinks