Dani thanks for all this info! Will definitely be useful when analyzing other sites. This is awesome!

You know what I think!

Kudos!

Google panda is very useful for duplicate content and made for adsense. If your site have duplicate content and its designed only for adsense your site will be penalized by Google.

Thanks for Good Information

Thank for for that it's really useful Article i hope we will do it on my site <snipped link>

Can I just say, YAY!

:)

Good to know your hard work, as always, is paying off Dani.

Thanks Dani, my site was hit quite a bit worst than you actually but for past 24hrs I saw some increase, lets hope it goes up. I hate the panda update, how come a site that is 16 years old has pr 4 and thousands of legit not one bought backlinks is still not ranking on first page for its keyword?

lookup mwd , you will find us on 2nd page!

We lost hundreds of thousands of visitors nearly, 75% of traffic is gone, 27 writers are layed off.
Anyway, i learned some lessons so.. i kind of stopped whining, but I feel your pain!

..................I've worked on removing duplicate content, making use of the canonical tag and better use of 301 redirects, and adding the noindex meta tag to SERP-like pages and tag clouds. I've also done a lot of work on page load times..................................

Yeah, that's Good. I really am glad to know about this extremely appreciable action taken like adding canonical tags, And basically, the best part is adding the no index tag for SERP like pages. This step would also help you to maintain the decorum of your forum and this will make sure the members coming here are participating in a healthy discussions.

@Dani Horowitz

Google Panda update is good for Unique Googlers. I hope DaniWeb is started climbing in Google.com again soon. :-)

Thank you for sharing your story. You shared very useful information with us...

Just goes to show why you should never rely on Google but treat it as the free bonus that it is. As you have experienced, it's not to good to rely on a third party that you have no control over, as a source of visitors.

I would concentrate on delivering a better service that will get advertised by word of mouth.

Using Google's canonical tag is pretty good if you are passing session IDs in URLs as Google sees every URL as different so all those pointing to the same page but with different session IDs and therefore different URLs would be seen as duplicate content.

The canonical tag means Google just indexes the page under one URL.

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Panda update changes the SEO in a large way, yes people talks and relates Panda as duplicate content but there are many other facts like more ads then content.

Content that is not rich or having less meanings, changing design of site regularly all can decreases the value of ur sites.

Glad to hear about the recovery of Daniweb ...

It was just yesterday when I received some newsletter from teliad. They compared the changes in Ranking visibility from march to may from the top 100 web pages for englisch search queries ...

The biggest winners are:

1. youtube.com: 54.096,74 (+139,8%)
2. facebook.com: 24.167,27 (+124,26%)
3. squidoo.com: 11.467,18 (+63,60%)
4. ehow.co.uk: 6.035,64 (+58,27%)
5. thefreedictionary.com: 5.676 (+38,45%)
6. flickr.com: 12.905,11 (+38,00%)
7. alibaba.com: 7.523,97 (+35,74%)
8. myspace.com: 6.660,76 (+30,86%)
9. nextag.com: 11.453,02 (+30,77%)
10. informe.com: 8.796,46 (+28,89%)

The biggest losers are:

1. associatedcontent.com: 9.129,76 (-56,84%)
2. suite101.com: 9.590,36 (-52,82%)
3. wisegeek.com: 3.921,63 (-52,66%)
4. thefind.com: 4.077,09 (-43,76%)
5. findarticles.com: 3.872,02 (-39,98)
6. examiner.com: 3.116,22 (38,69%)
7. ezinearticles.com: 14.712,47 (38,62%)
8. buzzle.com: 7.375,12 (-37,74%)
9. ehow.com: 24.304,51 (-28,26%)
10. brothersoft.com: 3.895,10 (-27,36%)

Source: teliad.com newsletter

Seems to me that the big brands have got the best of the bargain after Google Panda Farmer Update .... but it seems weird to me, that ehow.co.uk is one of the biggest winners meanwhile ehow.com lost about 30% of their ranking visibility ...

One good thing I like about Google Panda Update (though it hit hard on some of my websites) is that it serves as a wake up call to further improve our performance in posting quality content. I am glad to know that Daniweb is fast recovering and yeah you're right, it'll improve overtime.

I figured it would take the search engine a bit of time to realize Daniweb web pages are uniquely genuine and should be rewarded again as such.

As far as backlinks go, I don't get it. How do you not see that your own web pages are your biggest and best linking strategy? Seek externally all you want but you cannot control the fluctuating values of incoming links yet are in full control of your internal linking structure. Do you think you are fully capitalizing on your own off-page ranking influences. A link is a link.

thanks for your information released! Dani

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