There was a major Google Panda update on April 12, 2011 - Mentioned on Google webmaster central, And it had affected 12% of searches - Well let's discuss how was the Google panda update for you?
Hey I love the pic My sites have not been affected at all. Last August I took some time to add a lot of good content to my money sites and I never use black hat techniques for backlinks so right now my sites are holding steady. In fact I went up a couple places. With the amount of content that I added its fortunate that my sites were not mistaken for content farms. I see that a few of my competitors that I had been trying to outrank are completely out the SERPS which is good for me but for the owners I am guessing not so much. Anyway I am happy that Google is now rewarding good honest work and quality content.
It affected me in a good way, I used to get 50 unqiue visitors every day from Google and know I'm getting over 150+ unique visitors daily.
well for me it was great i am getting almost double traffic now...! Some websites have been mistakenly considered as content farm i am sorry for them...
i am sorry for you, what was your total traffic? and what is now? - What type of content did you have?
I got a 33% increase in traffic and a 26% increase in revenue, but I've been doing a lot of tricky work this work to fix my site up so its hard to tell if it was that which helped.
A careful study by me reveals Google Panda has effect lots of UK top Sites and I was one who lost 70% of my visits from SERPS on all of my blogs. There are many lukeholes of Google Panda, one example I have covered is Hindi Songs Download Search in Google. I feel its more than 40% of searches got changed completely. Ezinearticles most effected with ranking
Didn't affect me or my competition. For the people that it affected, be carefull google is still finetuning this update so things could still change. Hopefully google will find a way to not affect the wrong people with this update. The update is a bomb in googles war with spam and low quality content, but too many innocent bystanders got hurt.
My traffic went down even though I have tons of unique content (since most of the articles are how-tos or reviews)
Yes 20% of my sites from my inventory got penalized under this Panda effect. However I have managed to re-cover from it for 5% of those sites by now by some real and unique content and link building campaigns. I was very lucky that I was not hurt bad by this Panda update, but couple of my friends have completed gone down in sites and revenues after that update, we call it a 04/15 crises