Ugh, I'm kinda pissed about it. We got hit in the previous Panda algorithm update a few months ago, and I was really hoping for a recovery this time. I've been refeshing my analytics all day waiting for it to come. Then, just a few minutes ago, I was talking to someone on Skype who told me that they noticed it rolling out already. That completely burst my bubble!! I guess no recovery for us this time :(
That being said, I did hear that this would be the last manual Panda update. From now on, Panda will be integrated with the main Google algorithm and be continuous, rolling updates. Hopefully that means that we can fix whatever needs fixing and get ourselves back in Google's good graces sooner rather than later. Just not now I guess :(
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If your websites doesn't follow the google webmaster guidelines, that it affects from google panda update.
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Dani, has anyone recovered from panda that you know of?
We were hit in February 2011 and made a full recovery (over 150% of our pre-Panda traffic, peaking at 200%) back in June 2011. We were hit again in November 2012 and have yet to recover.
I was hit for re-posting press releases on my website, I didn't realize that would eventually hurt my rankings, but it did.
Yes, duplicate content penalty.
I am disappointed with Google for being too stupid to determine the difference between farm content and content re-disturbed for readers.
It's not that they necessarily think you're a content farm. It's that they would rather send their visitors (the Googlers) to the original source of the article instead of to where it has been resyndicated.
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