Factors Make a Site Vulnerable to Panda!
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- Conduct qualitative research (that's speaking with individuals and not a big questionnaire) to find out which of a sample of sites they considered to be low quality and why.
- Use the results to define low quality sites with the factors that Google can measure. This gives Google a mathematical definition of low quality.
If we start here, we can think of a number of factors that Google might be able to measure to define low quality, including:
- A high % of duplicate content. This might apply to a page, a site or both. If it's a site measure then that might contribute to each page's evaluation.
- A low amount of original content on a page or site.
- A high % (or number) of pages with a low amount of original content.
- A high amount of inappropriate (they don't match the search queries a page does well for) adverts, especially high on the page.
- Page content (and page title tag) not matching the search queries a page does well for.
- Unnatural language on a page including heavy-handed on-page SEO ('over-optimization' to use a common oxymoron). Eg unnatural overuse of a word on a page.
- High bounce rate on page or site.
- Low visit times on page or site.
- Low % of users returning to a site.
- Low clickthrough % from Google's results pages (for page or site).
- High % of boilerplate content (the same on every page).
- Low or no quality inbound links to a page or site (by count or %).
- Low or no mentions or links to a page or site in social media and from other sites.