Did Panda/Penguin kill off most SEO?

Obviously you still need a little bit of SEO, but for the most part is SEO dead? I mean, what boosts rank now other than good content?

 

No it didn't obviously not only content matters , yes it weights more but you still need good backlinks to boost your websites . So those can be easily achieved with SEO . All you have to do is to be more carefully not do bring too many in too little time .

 

Hi TheCause,

This is a good question and the answer is no, SEO is not dead. As with any update, you will want to see how your site ranks now in comparison to how it ranked before. It is essential to maintain Internet best practices in order to rank properly as well. In addition, if you had any content flagged as low quality content and removed it, make sure that you replace it with higher quality content and Best_services is right that quality backlinks are also necessary for effective SEO after Panda/Penguin.

This article does a good job of explaining what is necessary after the Panda update:

http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/Gauging-Pandas-Effect-on-Your-Sites/

Here is another helpful piece:

http://seo-hacker.com/googles-panda-update-affect-seo/

Hope this helps,

Shawn

 

Only Blackhat SEO and those spammers are killed by Panda.

 

Only Blackhat and those spammers are killed by Panda. i agree with you ,my website is ok ~~unaffected

 

i wouldn't say killed but indeed limited by Panda

 

Totally agree with you guys. It didn't kill SEO. It just eliminated those bad quality sites that shouldn't really rank high in Google's SERP.

 

google panda is to balance site SEO abuse and site do not know seo quality content

 

Panda updates are good for SEO as they push the low quality websites to the bottom.

 

Google's main objective was to go after blackhat sites. Was there some good sites that were affected and they shouldn't have been? Yeah, but if you practiced whitehat SEO than you shouldn't have anything to worry about... There is a problem though with Google going so hard after 'shady' backlink neighborhoods... It creates an atmosphere where Negative SEO is prevalent. Let's hope that won't be the case.

 

They just a bunch a hypocrites with a monopoly, saying do not do it for the advertising do it for the Humans and for a bunch of ADSENSE ADS!!!!

 

This post, very well said mate. But i still find my original articles getting less priority..

 

It will the case. They are trying find an algorithm which doesn't rely on backlinks. Because backlinks have been abused like meta tags even much more than meta tags.
I think that they are not able to catch unnatural backlinks correctly and easily as before.

 

Google panda algorithm is a funny game which keeps troubling site promoters and marketers

 

Panda kills spammers. If your website is authentic with unique content then you have no problem.

 

I agree with all experienced threaders. Panda & Penguin is killed only spammers and hackers and out of activists that search engine not of SEO.

 

yes google is getting strict on spamming, seo can't be dead because if seo is dead how search engines will work. Google is now giving importance to ethical seo.

 

SEO is alive and kicking and always will be, you just need to do it properly.

 

So tired of seeing good backlinks because certain sites just don't attract great or good or even mediocre backlinks. My site for example... a television site.
I have good traffic, good enough I should say, but not that many quality backlinks.

 

ya actually it has made big difference. lot of spammers are now being killed