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White Hat SEO / Re: how does panda update effected your site?
« on: October 23, 2011, 08:16:49 am »
35k backlinks is a *lot* of backlinks. A *LOT* *LOT* :-) You'll have a lot of dubious quality links in there, which generally won't impact you negatively but they won't contribute positively. Profile backlinks are useless for instance, they're consider "self backlinks". Articles etc are also considered "self backlinks".
Social bookmarks are very strong these days.
Also something to bear in mind is that the panda updates aren't just about unique content. In general it's about "improving the user experience". One thing that's very important is the length of your content. If you look at a lot of keywords you'll notice a trend where sites with say 300-600 words with a lot of backlinks are being beaten by sites with 1000+ words of content.
The simplest way to do things these days is 1) Regularly updated unique content. 2) Social bookmarking
You don't have to update your site forever, but updating it every day, 2 days or twice a week depending on the competition for 2-10 weeks, again depending on competition has very strong effects. The more you update with fresh unique content the more you push yourself up the rankings. You're only going to get beaten by people who continue to update, but very very few sites do that.
Social bookmarks are very strong these days.
Also something to bear in mind is that the panda updates aren't just about unique content. In general it's about "improving the user experience". One thing that's very important is the length of your content. If you look at a lot of keywords you'll notice a trend where sites with say 300-600 words with a lot of backlinks are being beaten by sites with 1000+ words of content.
The simplest way to do things these days is 1) Regularly updated unique content. 2) Social bookmarking
You don't have to update your site forever, but updating it every day, 2 days or twice a week depending on the competition for 2-10 weeks, again depending on competition has very strong effects. The more you update with fresh unique content the more you push yourself up the rankings. You're only going to get beaten by people who continue to update, but very very few sites do that.
I had a crazy ride.
First panda, the one back in April, ruined my site's traffic (3rd place for 1 KW's and first page for rest of targeted KW's) went down to 700+ place.
Been stuck there till panda 2.5 when I skyrocketed back and ALMOST got my rankings up only to get hit again by panda 2.6 and now I'm nowhere in top 1000.
All unique content, no direct xrumer or scrapebox blast to the site and around 35K backlinks according to Google webmaster tools. I did a lot of web 2.0's, profiles, .edu links. Page authority 58 so it's not a trashy site either.
I'm now trying new things - high PR blog networks, crazy diversity of links and a lot of bookmarking.
I'll see if it will get me up in a few weeks.