Hi I have a website on valentine, love, romance, gifts and related topics. the site was performing well before panda update but after that there was a sudden drop in ranking and traffic. I am currently looking to make a virtual directory structure of my website by collecting all the pages related to Love together and then further divide into subcategory. same for "romance", "relationship","gifts","holidays" , "poems", "quotes". Just like ehow.com did. Main thing i did was maintaining the link of relevant pages on the same page. For example on Love Poems page under "love" category i gave link of other poems only. But after crawling website has not improved. "Love Poems" is still not in 300 in Us which was in top 50 earlier. Now I want to know 1. whether this kind of virtual directory structure is right? 2. how i can give internal and external linking? 3. Can I give internal links from other category also like from the pages of "romance" section to "love" section pages? We are planning to convert the site on CMS in two months. But for now how I should go with it.
No need to change the structure of the site It looks like a panda disliked spam links, links with the same anchor, the rapid growth links Maybe just wait a couple of weeks?
last 14 google update their ranking method . thats the main problem. i saw many webmaster is suffering for this. all the high traffic website lose their 40%-70% of traffic. google now only giving rank to the unique websites. they r doing it 70% manually.
Hey, my mydearvalentine, did your website recover at all? If so can you share what changes you made. My site lost 25% of it's Google traffic. the panda is a beast!
virtual directory boost ranking of your sites but it take time also each page needed to have some back links so you can see improve in ranking soon