Smashed by Panda

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Well it looks like I got hit hard by Panda 3.2. My page view went from 800-1100 page views per day down to 300-400 per day. I used to get 60%+ traffic from Google, now down to around 15%

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I have one adsense banner at the top, and 3 affiliate banners below the fold on the homepage. I do use wikipedia as a guide for my content, but rewrite it before posting. I do stilll have some straight copy/paste that I'm working on cleaning up and rewriting. Anyway, can anyone give me some pointers on bringing my ranks back up?
#search engine optimization #panda #smashed
  • You should add some more quality content in your site to satisfy panda
  • Content is king. Add some more unique content to your site.
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    • The Adsense banner? I thought about that, but it has been such a nice producer.....:p
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  • Why are you so sure it's 'Panda' that got you?
  • Like someone said above, why are you stating that this is Panda related? What kind of data and testing have you done to come to that conclusion?
  • One thing to do would be to remove those trackbacks.

    That's probably not too panda related but, not helping much either.
  • Search engine traffic goes up and down all the time. It's damn near impossible to determine the cause of movement. I wouldn't worry too much yet. The change could be only temporary.
  • You might want to try moving the content more up on the page. Move the images after the 2 or 3rd paragraph.

    They're also hiding your share buttons.
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    • This might be the case. Google's new changes seem to be concerned with the content that appears above the fold. The main focus was on the amount of ads in the 'above the fold' portion. But it's highly possible that google now pays particular attention to all content at the top of your posts.
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  • I think you should read this to cope up with Google Panda:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-download.html
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    • Thanks Dan - I see my problem right at #1. This site is only 10 months old.

      I guess I squeaked by the first panda update, but got hit with this one.
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  • my site also get penalized by this Panda Update..get harm in term of ranking from page 1 to page 3 or one keyword also disappear from ranking
  • nearly all duplicate content and its a thin affiliate...no brainer for Panda here.
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    Smashed by Panda

    Well it looks like I got hit hard by Panda 3.2. My page view went from 800-1100 page views per day down to 300-400 per day. I used to get 60%+ traffic from Google, now down to around 15% Tickets, Seating Charts and More from Where's My Seat?