Some have been able to recover, by variations of what they were doing, i.e. if they were only doing article submissions, then vary it via blog commenting and social bookmarking
Fix the duplicate content Improve the article quality Increase visitor length Reduce bounce rate Encourage social mentions Fasten the website speed Practice human friendly writing For further reference Refer my article : Recovering from Google Panda Survival Guide
If you use stolen content then you should remove all the articles. Only the owner have the right to use his/her resources. Use your own content, every thing will be under your control. Then panda will help you getting more and more visitor.
You should follow these steps: Make complete list of your site or blog URLs and analyze the content of each URL carefully. Check page ranking. Improve the internal linking of pages. Clean your site. Use more Google services. Gain authenticity Concentrate on your blog niche. Best of luck.
Here i would like to add few other important points: - Content to ads ratio - User engagement (if you own blog then number of comments or frequency of change in content) - Bounce rate of the page - and of course quality of content
Stealing content is no problem with Panda. People stole my content, yet they rank better than me and I'm Panda, yet they aren't. How cool is that? Google forum is full of people Panda because others stole their content. But I'm not seeing people talking about others or maybe competition blocking their website? Ideas?
Just make sure you have unique and quality content on your site and you are not involved in any of Black Hat SEO technique.
That's not true, I ahve all unique content and don't use black hat seo but my sites still got lost in the last panda update. I think it's easy for someone who's not in panda to give these easy answers.
There is the only way: Make sure your site is a high quality one, by give somewhat useful to your readers. The Content is The King based to panda algorithm.
Are tag and category really a problem? Also are TOS on your site important and why? I don't talk about the legal issues here.