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in net taking people start notice of the ranking changes as of last night after 6pm EDT
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-22-13532.html

O NO NOT Again .. I hate this . did you people notice any changes in your traffic or keyword Ranking ?

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Brief expert context and practical next steps for the thread: algorithmic “Panda” moves are signal-driven filters that tend to devalue large amounts of low‑value or thin content rather than single pages picked at random. ’s observation of sudden rank shifts and ’s frustration are consistent with a quality‑signal refresh. Several contributors here (notably ) have already pointed to thin tag/archive pages and footer tag clouds as common weak points; those are good clues to where to look first.

Immediate triage (high‑leverage checks):

  • Compare organic sessions by landing page and by date ranges in Analytics to see whether the drop is site‑wide or concentrated.
  • Inspect Google Search Console for manual actions, index coverage errors, and recent crawl anomalies.
  • Look for patterns: low word count, duplicate or near‑duplicate templates (tag pages, feeds, auto‑generated archives), and pages without a cached copy — these often correlate with Panda‑style devaluations.
  • Use server logs to confirm Googlebot crawling behavior and to detect sudden errors or large numbers of 5xx/4xx responses.

Practical recovery actions (prioritize low-effort, high-impact work):

  • Consolidate or remove thin pages: merge similar tag/archive pages into richer category pages or apply noindex,follow to templates that offer no unique value.
  • Add unique, user‑focused introductions or summaries to previously thin sections (tag pages, author pages).
  • Canonicalize or 301 pages that dilute relevance; remove auto‑generated content that exists solely for indexing.
  • Example meta to remove a page from index while keeping links crawlable:
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

For timeline and tracking questions raised by : keep an annotated log in Analytics (with event notes for suspected update windows), correlate with cache timestamps and reputable industry trackers, and focus recovery energy on improving the site’s best pages first — Panda recoveries are usually earned by raising overall site quality rather than by chasing individual rankings.

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I hope that there's another big algo change in the works. I'm just waiting for the day when one of them will knock us back up to where we used to be. It really can't get much worse, so anything can only be an improvement for us.

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Are there seasoned Panda-watchers here that can advice on the dates of the different Panda updates? I'm trying to identify the data points in the stats.

It looks like officially, the dates are something like this:

Panda 1.0 - February 24, 2011 - certain
Panda 1.1 - ?
Panda 1.2 - ?
Panda 2.0 - ?
Panda 2.1 - ?
Panda 2.2 - June 9th, 2011 not too certain

Can anyone fill in the dates between 1.0 and 2.2? Thanks!

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2.1

I believe occurred around the 6th June, three out of the four sites that I've been watching that weren't hit by previous panda updates suffered due to this update.

The one that wasn't hit had more textual content onpage for each tag, the others just had anchor links on their tag pages.

If I were you Dani I would remove the footer tag cloud. And replace it with some post related blurb that's useful to the user.

Ads are moot, I've seen sites with 18 or so ads.

Google can read javascript, if seoquake can do it then I'm sure google can.

This is speculation at the moment but I am currently seeing trends where thin pages have no google cache.

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in net taking people start notice of the ranking changes as of last night after 6pm EDT
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-22-13532.html

O NO NOT Again .. I hate this . did you people notice any changes in your traffic or keyword Ranking ?

The SERPs are not very consistent since Panda update. Changes are being seen continually, and many results with outdated content are still showing up.

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This update will only affect 11% of all search . So don't worry about this more

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I guess it's time to add another line to the Panda tracker:

Panda 2.3 - July 24th, 2011


Does everyone agree?

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