Google Panda is now live...

If your website has been hit and your receiving less traffic, there is every chance you have been bitten by the Google Panda - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-quality-sites-algorithm-goes.html

 

Well we already got the signals from our traffic data and most of webmaster hit by this update, I'm sure in next 24 hours more and more webmaster will report traffic drop!

 

This is a good move i think by google because lot of spam was in search

 

We have dropped a couple of sots for our main keyword but all in all I think it is a good move by Google, the drop could also be because the other ites have had a spike on their inbound links.

 

Are you sure? I can't be! I see copy data and spamming sites is their in first page for keywords which I was targeting! One page is copied information from us and also put link too have page one while same content which I own and original one is on page 4.

 

Hi thanks for this info good thing I drop by in this part section of the forum.
I haven't experienced the effect of it yet but hoping it will not..

 

Now live? This is old news. Where have you been?

 

It has been rolled out globally for ALL ENGLISH websites instead of only websites from the US.

 

Yeah like I don't already know that. Just read it on SearchEngineLand yesterday. My point was the Panda update per se.

 

maybe on non-English sites now.

 

i hate all the virus~~~

 

I hate all the spammers and n00bs.

 

The Panda update won't be perfect right away. Some sites that are actually legitimate sites will get hit, but they'll get fixed. I think, in the long run, surviving the Panda update will require changes to all of our methods. e-Commerce sites will have to change their structure. Bloggers will have to change their structure. But, in the next year or so, search engines will look different...Or, spammers will just get even better at spamming.

 

I thought the Panda update targeted content scrapers?

 

I read about it Panda update - ya its for content spammer, various theme related websites like all articles sites

 

who else was hit?

 

This is mostly for autoblogging and content spamming sites. General webmasters shouldn't be too worried.

 

Also large e-commerce sites are hit because they all use the same product content... not only amazon affiliates but also other larger related e-commerce sites.

Good to ban content spammers....

Very interesting move the see how this will effect the rankings and also give oppurtunities. BUT hopefully the top 10 will not solely be dominated by CNN, MSN, techcrunch etc. etc. also give the smaller guys a chance

 

UH-OH.... What will you ever do?

GC

 

They did target content scrapers. But, if you publish the exact same product information as a dozen other e-commerce sites, how does Google know who originally created it? Doesn't that make you a content scraper then?