Google Panda Destroyed My Business

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hi ,,

I Have site have about 4000 UV Daily
Also Site Have About 1000 UV Daily

And I Got About 15 $ Daily From Adsense ..

After Panda For 1 st Site i got now 1500 uv daily and for 2st site
i got 200 uv daily ,,

and now i hardly got 3-4 $ daily ,,, :confused:

my first site got sandboxed my home page disappeared and also
i lost my keyword ranking ,,

i got disappointed its now about 2 weeks and no news ,,,

i dont do any think spam except some Few blog commenting

and about 10 backlinks ,,

what shall i do ??

#search engine optimization #business #destroyed #google #panda
  • I feel for you mate, similar thing happened to me. I've been depressed ever since.

    Google killed my life for the moment!

    But you gotta try and get back up and battle for another round.

    Just don't make the same mistake again and rely too much on Google.

    Oh and I'd play as dirty as you can. It seems nice guys finish last online too.
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  • Take your efforts away from adsense. Yes people are still making money with adsense, but all I'm hearing all over the net is that having a website full of adsense ads is going to make Google think less of your site.

    Focus on affiliate programs, and start building more links to your site. Consistency is key here, so keep building until your back on top.
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    • Is it really too many Adsense ads, or just poor/non-unique content?

      If I build a content-rich site with lots of Adsense do you think that's a bad idea?
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    • Big Problem Not only adsense mate but also lack of visitors

      if also was adsense it may be little fine as i will use ant alternative than
      adsense but my visitors were 70 % less ..

      I Dont make any mistake or spam but as u say i wont rely on google i will go around yahoo etc ,,,

      thanks all
    • "Take your efforts away from adsense. Yes people are still making money with adsense, but all I'm hearing all over the net is that having a website full of adsense ads is going to make Google think less of your site."

      Funny that, just got a recommendation from the adsense team to stick in more adsense blocks.
    • Why would Google want to de-rank websites that provide Google with income through AdSense..?
  • You need to diversify your traffic sources, for reasons like these.

    Are there any methods that you can utilize to drive additional traffic to your site? Facebook? Twitter? Forum participation/blog participation?
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    • My traffic in past was almost from google and search engines ,,

      now i think i must go to other traffic sources

      thanks ,,,,,,,
  • I'm in the same boat. I frequent WF looking for advice, so far nobody has any success stories.

    I went from roughly 4,000 to 1,000 daily. I am on the verge of starting over on a new domain. The only one who hates my site is Google.com. My readers love my site, Wiki loves my site, eHow loves my site, blogs and forum posters love my site. I get backlinks from my readers spreading the word of my site...

    yet google hates me...

    I'm yet to find a solution. Maybe Google.com hates Wordpress software? I don't know...
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    • How about the sites that took your place? They must frequent other forums

      Paul
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    • I think Google loves WordPress.

      One of my site went from #1 to #500 in SERPS on 6th June.

      I started this site in January with 500words Hompage Unique content(cheaply written for $4.5) and with one post of 500 words unique as well. Ofcourse it has privacy, about and blah blah pages. It's 5 pages website.

      It was making sales so I changed Hompage content in May, and the old content I kept it as a post.

      On 18th/19th June it came back on its position. I didn't do anything. And its now PR3 after the Google PR update.

      I have another WP blog. Again 5 pages. It has very good content on it and some quality backlinks. I started this in end of April and its currently ranking #1 for my KW beating AMAZON. Its PR4 after the Google PR update.
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  • How's the content of your site? Google Panda is all about high-quality content. If you say that you haven't been spamming then maybe you have to take a second look at your content. Is it unique? How long are your articles? Are you putting fresh content on a regular basis? Is adsense occupying more space on your blog than your article? So on and so forth...
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  • I think a lot of SEO-based marketers are suffering from Panda...just reminds us that we shouldn't rely on 1 traffic source too much because big G is fickle as hell and building a business on organic seo ranking is always a risk...
  • Home page de-indexed is a very serious problem for webmasters, you'd better check your website first, find out possible reasons then fix problems. Try to add more quality contents and backlinks to your website, it will be helpful, btw, build backlinks from different resources is more helpful.
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    • Google has penalized more to those websites who are content base or directories. so look at those websites that took your place on search and keep working dont loose temper
  • You can expect more and more changes like panda in future.They don't want to lose their visitors to bing or yahoo.so gear up for more...
  • Codezero, I know how you feel. I went from around $250/day to $125-$150 a day... Now with the amazon affiliate termination, even lower until I can get my account reinstated.

    The only thing you got to do is keep hustling and have patience. It's easy to get discouraged but try not to. Just keep looking forward to brighter days and adapt your strategies if you have to (after Panda, I have).
  • thanks all

    i will give more importance to google 1+ and also social bookmarking & remove adsense ads for 2 days to see what will happen - remove my site from anylstic and webmaster tools - build some backlinks to my home page and internal pages ...

    may be it will help with big G
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  • Because your content is not unique or fresh that's why your website ranking goes down
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    • Just want to point something out for those knocking adsense.

      Adsense accounts for a VERY large % of Google's overall yearly revenue so if you think they are knocking sites for having adsense you are SORELY mistaken.

      When sites have troubles is when they try to sneak by on less than stellar content and spammy backlinks or when they start "tricking" visitors into clicking ads. The problem is not with adsense, its with the user.

      Now, in the case of the OP I have no idea as I have no seen the sites in question but I know I have sites that have not dropped a lick in almost 18 months with NO work so it isn't adsense or Google that creates the problem.

      With that being said, I think that relying on Google for the main source of income is a dangerous move. You've heard it before but I will say it again.

      BUILD A LIST. Even if you are not in the IM market you should be building a list and monetizing that list. That list is your asset.

      Without it you don't own a business. You are just an "employee' helping Google make ad revenue.

      Cheers!

      James
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  • Any suggestion form Warrior's how we come back again on same position.
  • thanks all and waiting any one to tell us what shall we do to improve our sites again <<
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    • There is a theory called KISS(Keep It Simple Silly) in every industry including SEO. And Google loves it.In general people over-complicate things and it does more harm than good.All the wise people of the industry say "Go with the tide,not against it".Most of the sites that went down after Panda release is because they aren't in compliance with google's set of rules.So they drowned them.To improve your site's rankings just do what google says.
  • What kind of market are you in? You don't need to say the specific niche, but with those kind of numbers, there are alternative monetization methods that could work.

    Check out affiliate programs and CPA's. In my opinion you can get much more money from those than from regular adsense.
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  • If I use chitika along with adsense, will it hurt?
  • I've always felt that Google was too strict. Can't do this, can't do that, can't do everything. And when they feel like it they ban your ass.

    I went through the same thing as you mate. Hang in there.
  • Have you tried to sent letter to google and ask them to reconsider your site?
    Check this one mate

    https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
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    • but one thing is clear that when goolge banned someone means a very very few chance to get back on track. You have to start agian from A......B......C........
      I never saw positive response from google to any one. so appeal once and forgot about that and start from first again.
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  • I heard next Panda update is coming in future. I agree that the Panda update from Google destroyed many websites without any valid reason. I hope in next update it will get corrected.
  • The new update supposedly means you need to focus more on "time on site". That is, there are some design elements, links and site flow issues that Google is going to be looking for. I say supposedly because it sounds like misleading bull from the Google team to get us doing stupid stuff.

    Some sites, I don't want people to linger... But at the same time I have figured out how to raise a sites stickiness. More intrasite links which offer MORE of what they want.. even if you have to get creative in order to do so.
  • I hate to say that if your business was destroyed by panda then your methods were flawed to begin with.

    Our clients rankings increased with Panda not dropped.

    Panda rewards good and proper SEO.

    I understand that SEO is getting harder and more complex. If you struggle in this area you really need to push forward on other traffic methods while you figure out the new SEO game.
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    • and this is why Google is now broken.

      Shouldn't they be rewarding the best websites, not the websites who do the best job of manipulating their sites to beat their algorithm?

      Google only works if NOBODY knows how they rank their sites which is clearly not the case.
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    • Hate to say it, but your logic is so flawed that I don't even know where to begin.

      How are autoblogs stealing content without giving backlinks to the original source "proper"? Many who were hit by Google did things the right way, yet are getting outranked by scrapers...

      Another misconception you have is ultimately, "proper SEO", is nothing more than high-quality and appealing content to be shared. Google doesn't want links spammed all over the interweb; and their algorithm manipulated. They want your content to be shared by others naturally.

      People who spew off none-sense and never been through the Panda update really pisses me off. Good websites are hit... sites that should be hit are not hit. What does that say about your clients websites? They might fit in the "should be hit" category.
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  • Its been a hard time for many webmasters.Don't feel for it.You are not the one.

    Build more backlinks and removes the duplicate content and add some more unique content.building backlinks is the only way to beat google.
  • ,same happened to me =/, have any of you had your UV's go up drastically?
  • $15 a day, you never had a business
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    • Everyone has to start somewhere. Whether you start at $15 or $2. I called my empire of sites a business from the get go when I was earning 50p a day. It's not what you earn that makes a business, it's what you put in.

      But back on topic, yep, google can kiss my ass. Go bing, GOOOOOO.
  • thanks all the big problem not in adsense to use alternative other ways like CPA

    BUT ITS Problem of visitors ,,,

    i reconsider my site and will see

    TigerUK

    EL HAMD LLAH
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  • I had sent a reconsideration request for a6 of my sites that I redone and still no reply. that was over 4 weeks ago. For something algorithm related such as panda a reconsideration request will do nothing.

    So in your case "coronaborcalis" either you were not effected by panda or you recovered due to making changes and panda coming back along.
  • Google's update didn't destroy your business. Your business was built entirely on a passive income generated from a third party source (Adsense).

    This type of revenue is too unpredictable.

    Your monetization methods of your sites "destroyed" your business.

    Don't blame it entirely on Google.
  • Keep add the quality + quantity ( 400 to 500 words) content on your websites and try getting traffic traffic from similar niche revelent websites.
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    • Quality and quantity isn't the solution. There are other factors in motion here. I can't understand why so many people are saying to create content that is 400-500 words...what is all that about?

      Don't mean to be rude but that is just the most primitive way of thinking I have ever come across, and many so called "SEO gurus" are claiming the same thing. Perhaps panda should pay a visit to Amazon, Argos, nexttag and others. I don't think they are aware of the quality or quantity.
    • Yeah agreed, everyone has to start somewhere, but when you never had a real business and making peanuts $15, and it goes downscaled to $2. You can hardly call it "destroed my business". There was nothing to destroy.

      You're wrong on the second point, business is about making money, money is absolutely the single most important factor in success or failure.

      This isn't called hardworking trade, this is called the money making trade. If you want to do the hardworking trade, sign up to national service and build railways and break rubble into stone or something. Plenty of hardworking there for you to get stuck into.



      LOL. reconsideration request my ass. This was just a google panda update.. I had a site that was sandboxed in March, it reappearted on serps in Jun 6 for 1 day, and disappeared and the reappeared in June 17th Just like your site. except my site was sandboxed to begin with, yours wasn't.

      This was also the case with a number of other people on w**k**f**e. <--ghey censoring
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  • You should look towards other alternatives - I have 1 website doing 5,000 unique views per day and climbing with unique content.
  • Many people are being hit with the Google Panda, but in its core it hopes to encourage website admins to create sites targetted at real people
  • I am thinking the OP and others are blaming google and not taking responsibility for what they have done. If they would have built a legit and real business where users love their sites and content and share it then they would not have lost any business. Even GOOGLE suggests you use social marketing to brand your business. PEOPLE need to stop relying on google for their entire income and business. IT'S JUST FOOLISH and goes against the age old saying "DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET!!" Just my personal opinion but has served me well over the years and I could care less what google does or does not do!
  • Well you are not only one Google knock down 6 of my sites so far since this Google slap over 800K sites got hit for "unnatural links"...
  • What funny is these so called Google sandbox is not admitted by Google staff like Mike Cutts himself. Yet, we have seen many sites experiencing significant drops or some sites might as well deindexed completely from the big G.

    I think we better off trying to find other traffic sources and not relying 100% from organic G traffic.
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