The Google Panda update

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Hi,

I wanted to know what would be the best mix of backlinks that I should focus on as a result of the recent Panda update.

I'm looking to get page 1 or 2 google rankings for low to medium competition long tail keywords.

In addition to edu or gov links, should I have forum profile links, social bookmarks, blog links etc.? I know it's part speculation, are there any backlinks that will negatively affect the website rankings now but google was ok with them before? Are link wheels still recommended?

I read a post in the services sections of WF google might penalize certain types of links such as forum profile links or other links with low PR (less than PR3) but I think that it might be just a marketing strategy to sell a link service.

I was wondering what your thoughts on that are. Thank you.
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  • From what I've heard, link wheels are a big no, no, easy for the search engines to spot, and can get your site sandboxed. One-way links work best. Also, Google is constantly tweaking it's algorithm. The Panda updates were just the big ones. Just focus on putting out unique, quality, up-to-date, content and offer value to the end user based on what he or she is searching for. It's the ultimate goal of any search engine. Get traffic from a variety of sources.

    Good luck,
    Joey
  • Original content and well structured site is key. Most old SEO tricks are useless now.
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  • Get anchor text backlinks from where ever you can. But the consistency of the links matters. As if your site is new and you blast 100 backlinks one week and 200 the other. You will rank first but the next week if you go low for example 50 backlinks than you are down hill. I am doing all the things exactly the same as 2 years before with same results. Nothing changes for me dunno why people lie about things.
    There do come change in google alog but that is only about ON PAGE SEO nothing else.
  • Why would you want page 2 rankings ? no forum profile links no scapebox blasts no massive link building. Good High Quailty Links
  • If you have well website content and structure then you touch your goal
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    • You know you could just go to the big G itself and type in google panda update.

      Here is a little info

      Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: High-quality sites algorithm goes global, incorporates user feedback
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    • It seems nobody answered your question so here is my take on Panda:

      Panda targeted mainly content farms meaning sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, EzineArticles and any other website that each page is an article about something. The problem Google had with these content farms was nay backlink coming from these pages have a high relevancy so before Panda they would be perceived as high quality backlink. Let's say for example your website was about practice marketing and then you had a spun article about practice marketing backlinked to your website, then it was enough for you to rank high for that keyword no matter what the competition was before Panda. Now if you set aside a few of these content farms like Squidoo the rest actually are filled with low quality content or spun content that people have submitted for backlinking purpose. Because Google algorithm gives a high weight to relevancy, Google had serious problem with these backlinks so what they did was to manually categorize thousands of content farms and devalue the importance of the backlinks coming from many of these websites. Some of these websites like Squidoo kept their importance. All that being said if before Panda an important part of your backlink building strategy was article marketing then you had to be hit by Panda update....
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  • I always recommend this - Diversify your backlinks' sources as much as you can. That means, use any of the following sources:

    Article directories
    Web 2.0 (Squidoo, Jimdo, Wetpaint, etc.)
    Signature links (try to change your anchor text on each forum)
    Blog comments - I don't give a rat's tail if the links are NF or DF, both types work fine for me. You can find good blogs to comment on by appropriate search operators.
    Press release directories - You can post your articles here the same way you do into article directories nad web 2.0 sites.

    Last but not least, don't build only one tier of backlinks, backlink your first tier backlinks with lower quality ones, as well!
  • Just make high quality contents sites which solve the problems of users and Google will reward you. Just check this what I am talking about...
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  • With the latest Google Panda, all you can do is put original useful content and make your site easy to navigate.
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    • Hi gtk29,

      That is good pre-Panda advice. However, Panda addresses a completely different issue, which is content quality. It doesn't matter much how original and useful your content is now, if it isn't free from quality defects it will be dinged by the Panda update.
  • The panda algorithm has nothing to do with links. Its all about on-page content.
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    • With all due respect you are absolutely wrong. When it comes to Google and algorithm and quality it is a unified picture. It means whether if you have a low quality content website (in this case content farm) or you get backlinks from a website like that you will be affected. It is just common sense. If you are a website flagged with low quality you will be affected yourself and also everybody that you linked to will be affected (you have less voting power)


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  • Read the Google Webmaster guidelines, nobody on here has a clue is the answer.
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  • Why does Google continually make all these updates? SEO takes a lot of link building and unique content creation. Non-unique content no longer shares its place in the rankings. Trying to figure this whole SEO thing out is tiring. ...The whole point is to keep practicing, and never losing heart...
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    • Google has said they change their algo. about 2 times per day. Sorry but even though it may be a lot of guessing and frustrating it is not their problem. Google is in the business of proving the best search results for its users. Even though I am in SEO , most of it is trying to manipulate search results - something Google does not like.
    • Google is a user driven search engine and for google to survive and keep generating revenue it has to provide good user experience so they are taking measures to remove low quality sites.
      This will help them retain users and they come back again only if they get quality result for their query.
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