Dear pals, I read so many discussions about google panda update and so many people happy and unhappy with the update. After reading tens of articles about the update, I'm still looking for some answers to questions as follow: 1. can you predict when the effect would end to a site? I think this can be a start point to reconsider the seo strategies. In this situation, when google still spread the algorithm, everything seems in a rush and unstable. 2. i want to manage a driver/software-download site for computer hardwares. Why this still valuable in my opinion? I see (in my experience) I hardly find some old-manufactured hardware drivers on the original manufacturers or they are not valid drivers. Most of old-manufactured hardwares I have are still valuable and I don't want to throw them into the trash can while they're still working. I might be not the one in this point of view, and I think providing the old-manufactured hardware drivers are still wanted else where. The question is how to make the site doesn't look like a spamming site? 3. does anyone of you have idea/opinion what "original content" means in google point of views? I see they who wrote original contents are also become victims of this panda update. (I'm still thinking if they are affected because of their seo strategies but I want to make sure what the original content means from your opinion) keep trying to do things better... success to you all...
Nobody really knows but Google, you just need to write your own content and lots of it, no copying, no spinning, none of that.
Well the effect to any site, if affected will be over only after it has been added to unique content. There is no particular time period mentioned anywhere, however you can try to NOT do anything what you have been doing earlier and try to implement a new strategy for your site ranking and link building. The original content, which you are saying is still affected in Panda, might not be the original source of that content, it might be a spinned article from some other source. Original content means, nothing copied from the net and speaking off your own mind
People are over analyzing the situation. Worry more about the way you are linkbuilding. Are you using some dirty tricks to build your links?
all, thank for replies... @blogaboutnothing : First time i did not do any link building at all. I just write what i want about my daily experiences... But one day, i started to learn seo and put some links in web directories till I knew that google don't like it. afterwards, it flows like water, some gave me backlinks without my request. I just blogwalking to topics interest me and leave comments where i can suggest any solution or asking about something.
No one exactly knows when will update be ending becasue google keep all these things secret. also if you're doing every thing in a legit way you would not be harmed, or you need to change the things, because alog change new trends to come as well.
I think it's a good thing in general, although it'll make it harder to SEO a small site, for the normal internet user it should improve the google rankings of genuine original sites
1. The effect will last as long you have spammy links and duplicate content on your website. 2. What you are doing is not spamming, there are many websites which offer software for lower version. You site will be a spammy site when you have loads of backlinks, some junk content and which has nothing to offer! 3. Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Most of the time when we see this, it's unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that generate both regular and stripped-down mobile-targeted pages, store items shown (and -- worse yet -- linked) via multiple distinct URLs, and so on. In some cases, content is duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or garner more traffic via popular or long-tail queries Source : Google webmaster Central Bloghttp://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html