Today one of my best ranked site's traffic dropped by more than 80% .i saw sites that offer the same content (lyrics) with no additional information (like i have - album name,picture of the album,artist biography,video of the song-all added manually) ,rank on top for many searches .now i ask why? since their content is the same ,and since the lyrics are the same ? Google should make a rule for sites that offer general content,that can't be unique,and that rule should apply to all ,not just to some of the websites what do you think about this "Panda" update ? is it good or bad for you ? i heard it is bad for many
great for me! good to see dup content get penalized and people who worked hard writing original content getting good rankings!!
Thanks for sharing such a nice info now days it is important to keep in mind about the Google new algorithm.
i am glad for you,of course it is good to see original content high in rankings,but i was talking about sites that can't really have original content,since the lyrics is the same for all .it may be good for you,but for most it is not. even if they have quality unique content . search for loosers and winners google panda on the internet and see there how quality sites are dropped
Are you talking about freemp3fan.com? It's quite a competitive niche filled with duplicate content so I imagine most low ranked lyrics sites were affected by the Panda update. I also got several popups while browsing it: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5337/416201141918pm.png. The rest I mixed in one single screenshot: http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/2568/416201142638pm.jpg. What's up with those? Are you automatically importing lyrics from other websites?
thanks for the reply .but no,i am not talking about that site .it is weird that you got those things,i don't see them . those are not ads popu-ups,it's a problem with the sources . that is a search engine . but i was not talking about it . thanks anyway
I think this new panda algorithm is still under development and you may be experiencing some google dancing.
i feel your pain. google can be cruel and unfair. but first of all, let's not jump to conclusions. what affected you may or may not be panda. how is your indexing? has the number of pages indexed dropped?
Well, look at it this way. Since you got penalized for it, it means that every other website hosting the same content also got/will be penalized. Which in turn results in that no one of your competitors won anything in the update either. Try building some strong backlinks to it to get advantage over everyone else that got penalized. Google gives better ranking to websites with high authority. I agree that it might be annoying since lyrics can't be changed to make them unique on every website, but I suppose you'll have to keep on fighting.
Lol what?? If Facebook was using same web hosting as OP, theb FB would be affected too? Panda has nothing to do with web hosting. It has to do with weeding out the crappy sites.
You misread what I said. I said "website hosting the same content". As in having content on a website that is similar to content published elswehere on the web. Not hosting company.
As other people said here, it was excellent for me too - got many of my competition out of the way for using sneaky techniques and duplicate content
I'm sure that if your website really kicks ass and the others don't yours will be back on top again. Do some more social media promotion to show Google that visitors love your website
Even 10% dup content is enough for google to kick you to the kerb in Panda. But lyrics sites? How is google going to deal with those? There's just so many, they really aren't all the same, and there wouldn't be one without duplicate content.
Exactly, but I guess on these sites they will just pick the best one out of them all. That's why I said he should do more social media promotion as that might be the key for Google to put him over the others
In that matter it's more or less what sort of backlinks the site has which will affect the rank - one competitor against another.
My Guess is that you didnt diversify your backlinks and alot of them were from the same kind of sources with very little "quality" backlinks, So when your backlinks have been dropped or devalued it has also devalued your site and sites pages. Thats what panda is all about, its not so much of a crack down on duplicate content , its a crack down on content farms like article directories for example , alot of people relied on places like go articles and ezine but now alot of their article pages have dropped out of the sky it means that many sites have also lost their bulk amount of backlinks hence making sites drop in serps etc. Thats just an example but there are so many things it could be that you should be thinking of how to resolve it rather than trying to figure out why other sites havent been penalised and you have. Get to work and start building quality related backlinks , be diverse in your backlinking methods.