Important! - Any of your small sites survived post panda/penguin?

Most of my small sites improved after Penguin. They are all 2 page sites with about 1000 words each page. The quality is of the content is pretty good but I think they survived because of the high PR links I have.

None of my sites was hit by Penguin update. I run about 50 of them and some have improved dramatically.

I have 1 page sites as well as big sites ranking so that doesn't really make difference in my opinion.

Don't be afraid to build a new site. Place good content, do proper SEO and you won't have problems to rank with any update.

FaBiz

My Small Site Had Higher Rankings Than Before!

wow!

so i guess it is not about having small sites. It is about having sites with good quality content. Am i right?

A few more questions:


Are these sites EMD?

All sites survived. I rarely build links. See a connection?

Some of them went up, some went down. It's unexplainable really why that happened. I did pretty much the same kind of seo on all of them. So, it's hard to explain why some went up and some went down.

Could you share the number of pages that these small sites have?

Hi,
All my sites survived all past and recent updates, never flounder in the serps at all. Each site ranks #1 for its keywords, plus secondary keywords.

Each is an emd
Each is currently in a blog network
Each has backlinks built almost daily (though anchor text is almost always mixed up)
Each page is highly seo'ed for it's main keyword and secondaries ( post are longer then 1500 words)
These are adsense type sites, most are not over 8 pages
One thing that that does stand out on these sites, is heavy visitor participation via blog comments. Lot of back and forth communication, with keywords and secondaries included.

I do not article marketing, no web 2.0's or social type marketing. I do have sexy bookmarks each site. On the average I get close to 100 shares each via sexybook marks.

I do not do any list building, or freebies....just post quality information that people seek.

I have adsense above the fold, just under the title. Adsense blocks on both sidebars, and either in the header or just under the navigation bar, depending on the site.

All sites are tastefully done (even with adsense) using Headway themes, each is an wordpress site. All domains are .com's

Seems like I'm doing everything against, everyone's take on just what theses updates are targeting.

One more thing, these sites range in age from 9months to 3 years old, I can't remember when new material was posted on any of them without going back to look. Daily comments, some as lengthy as a 300+ word comments are not uncommon, which I believe is giving these blogs new blood each day.

I just plan on doing what I doing.....works so far.

I got some idea that good
Thank you very much

I have a 1650 word Hubpages site that went from #14 to #4 on the first page of google. The key is Quality Content! I did major research! Quality is King!

Small sites have actually been the hardest hit by Google Panda and Google Penguin. Perhaps the reason for that lies in the notion of Google that small sites are the usual locations of content spams and link spams. Google also believes the logic that a small site has lesser content compared to a bigger one, thus, the higher the possibility of being haphazardly built without consideration to the welfare of online visitors just to earn money.

Have plenty of small sites that "survived." Strong on-page SEO is a major factor for me, something that people tend to overlook.

Had some of my PR 2 that were sitting between 1 and 3 totally get moved down to 40? They all have a lot of good content so now what??

Most of my sites survived. Some improved. I have a mix of small sites, large sites, and even a few autoblogs that are all ranking well. I do NO backlinking outside of social bookmarking and pinging new posts and I target products that I know I can rank for and that I know will convert.

I actively work on one website it is a small website

After penguin it's ranking better than ever before

My micro site (only 18 pages on it) is still sitting #5 on Google, for a phrase with over 200,000 exact match searches each month.

Make the site what ever you want just use quality and unique content.

Yes, we've survived because we do create quality, original and relevant content and never gone through heavy optimization (large link building). We do try to create natural links (do-follow and no-follow).

Penguin as discussed on forums was against keyword stuffing and other black hat SEO techniques thus I donot think that there is any relation with site length as my sites also donot have bigger in number of pages and survived after penguin update.