Google's Panda Is a Page or Site Evaluation?

A site built from ground up for user experience will not even know there has been a change in the Google Algrurthem.  The truth is if you do not have a spammy site or one of those Microsites designed for quick buck,  you do not need to read this article.  Most of those who suffered are those who have been and trying to cheat the system or outsmart the system.  And now Google will punish,  how? with Panda.

Panda is a site-wide penalty, not a page penalty. So if a certain percentage of your pages fall below Panda’s quality algorithm, then the whole site suffers. Fix enough of these pages and you may recover.To be fair, the dates that Panda hit don’t match up to periods when we saw traffic gains. In this time period we’ve rolled out original content, popular blog posts, introduced new tools and made several SEO improvements. In a way, you could say we’re good at not getting penalized by Panda.

Looking at the sites that lost the most traffic when Panda hit, I’m amazed at how poorly formatted most of these sites remain, even months later. A few have made improvements, but it feels like many webmasters decided it just wasn’t worth the effort, gave up, or they simply didn’t know what to do.

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Beating Google’s Panda Update – 5 Deadly Content Sins

A site built from ground up for user experience will not even know there has been a change in the Google Algorithm .  The truth is if you do not have a spammy site or one of those Microsites designed for quick buck,  you do not need to read this article.  Most of those who suffered are those who have been and trying to cheat the system or outsmart the system.  And now Google will punish,  how? with Panada.

google panada ranking effect

Panda is a site-wide penalty, not a page penalty. So if a certain percentage of your pages fall below Panda’s quality algorithm, then the whole site suffers. Fix enough of these pages and you may recover.To be fair, the dates that Panda hit don’t match up to periods when we saw traffic gains. In this time period we’ve rolled out original content, popular blog posts, introduced new tools and made several SEO improvements. In a way, you could say we’re good at not getting penalized by Panda.

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Beating Google’s Panda Update – 5 Deadly Content Sins

Essential Facts - Replicate Google's Panda Questionnaire

To improve the qualities of websites traffic and ranking you might need to avoid Panda update. A discussion was initiated between Will Critichlow joins Rand and amazing idea of Wills to help those who were having problems with Panda and to avoid future problems. To improve the site, good suggestions for management, for contents, creators, people on the Web to improve their sites through this sort of search problems like Panda’s ranking effects.

 it’s very hard to know what people are thinking when they’re answering these questions, but the degree of agreement is . . . Rand: Is where you get something. So let’s talk about Mechanical Turk, just to end this up. You take these questions and put them through a process using Mechanical Turk. Will: So I actually used something called SmartSheet.com, which is essentially a little bit like Google Doc spreadsheets. It’s very similar to Google Doc spreadsheets, but it has an interface with Mechanical Turk. So you can just literally put the column headings as the questions. Then, each row you have the page that you want somebody to go to, the input, if you like. Rand: The URL field. Will: So SEOmoz.org/blog/whatever, and then you select how many rows you want, click submit to Mechanical Turk, and it creates a task on Mechanical Turk for each row independently. Rand: Wow. So it’s just easy as pie. Will: Yeah, it’s dead simple. This whole thing, putting together the questionnaire and gathering it the first time, took me 20 minutes. Rand: Wow. Will: I paid $0.50 an answer, which is probably slightly more than I would have had to, but I wanted answers quickly. I said, “I need them returned in an hour,” and I said, “I want you to maybe have a quick look around the website, not just gut feel. Have a quick look around.” I did it for 20, got it back in an hour, cost me 10 bucks. Rand: My God, this is the most dirt cheap form of market research for improving your website that I can think of. Will: It’s simple but it’s effective. Rand: It’s amazing, absolutely amazing. Wow. I hope lots of people adopt this philosophy.

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Replicate Google’s Panda Questionnaire – Whiteboard Friday