Greg - has the PF been Pandalized?

[Borek]

I have been hit - my traffic is about 40% down :grumpy:

We have already prepaid part of the Summer vacations, and part of my income is Google dependent, no idea how much I will make in April/May/June - future looks blurred at the moment.

 

[Studiot]

I have been hit - my traffic is about 40% down

Question mark ?

 

[Borek]

Google traffic, Panda is a codename of the latest Google code upgrade that was rolled out about a week ago and substantially changed search results. "Pandalized" is a word play.

 

[Studiot]

Thanks, I had no idea what you were talking about.

 

[G01]

How does Panda change the results? Does it tend to obscure smaller webpages?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I have been hit - my traffic is about 40% down :grumpy:

Hard to say at the moment how PF is affected by Panda. Weekends are always slow. Over the past decade though PF has remained strong over all the google updates. I know google has been very aggressive towards content farms. I hope google doesn't see use as one.

 

[Astronuc]

Hard to say at the moment how PF is affected by Panda. Weekends are always slow. Over the past decade though PF has remained strong over all the google updates. I know google has been very aggressive towards content farms. I hope google doesn't see use as one.

Content farms?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Content farms?

This will explain
http://searchengineland.com/google-lowers-boom-on-ehow-com-73327

 

[Borek]

Weekends are always slow.

I am 40% down over the whole week (excluding Sunday, but Sundays is a part of a weekend, weekends are slow, so Sunday won't change much).

I have not yet checked details about different sites (I have several), but it looks like all have been affected. Hardly surprising - they were built with similar templates.

What is irritating is the fact that I followed what google always promoted - not to "overseoize", good, original, interlinked content prepared for users, not for search engines (well, I did some small white hat tricks, but nothing blatant). It worked for almost 6 years.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I am 40% down over the whole week (excluding Sunday, but Sundays is a part of a weekend, weekends are slow, so Sunday won't change much).

Comparing this week to last week our stats are normal. Wonder why you go hit :(

 

[jtbell]

This will explain
http://searchengineland.com/google-lowers-boom-on-ehow-com-73327

I love this example of what Google has been trying to filter out:

http://www.ehow.com/how_7551358_pour-water-glass-cup.html

 

[Evo]

Over the past few weeks whenever I google something the top 10 are yahoo answers (nothing but idiotic remarks), wiki answers (more people giving answers that have no clue), e-how (same as above) it's made finding real information very difficult.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Over the past few weeks whenever I google something the top 10 are yahoo answers (nothing but idiotic remarks), wiki answers (more people giving answers that have no clue), e-how (same as above) it's made finding real information very difficult.

Forums have generally been viewed in the same realm of sites for poor quality content which is why I am always concerned.

 

[Lacy33]

Didn't have my glasses on because they have been hurting. I opened this thread thinking it read:
Greg... something, something, PF has been canonized. Well, I thought, that was quick.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

I love this example of what Google has been trying to filter out:

http://www.ehow.com/how_7551358_pour-water-glass-cup.html

So that's how it's done! Thanks for link jtbell.

 

[jhae2.718]

I love this example of what Google has been trying to filter out:

http://www.ehow.com/how_7551358_pour-water-glass-cup.html

:rofl:

 

[HeLiXe]

I love this example of what Google has been trying to filter out:

http://www.ehow.com/how_7551358_pour-water-glass-cup.html

no way... LOL