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Google Panda rollout this week, confirmed by Google today, even though they previously said they were no longer going to confirm Panda updates.

Word on the street is that they've softened the algorithm to not penalize border cases, and I've heard that some people are talking about recovery. DaniWeb hasn't, but I'm not so sure it's Panda that we were hit by. Know anyone who recovered??

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This thread raises two recurring questions from , , and : (1) how to tell whether a traffic hit is a content-quality algorithm issue, and (2) what to do next. The checklist below focuses on diagnosis first, then short, practical remediation steps that work whether the drop happened in 2013 or years later.

Diagnostic quick checks

  • Check Search Console (Webmaster Tools) for manual actions and for which landing pages/queries lost impressions.
  • Compare scope: a broad loss across many content pages suggests a site‑level content-quality signal; a handful of pages suggests page-level or technical problems.
  • Inspect crawl/indexing: server errors, sudden deindexing, or robots/meta noindex mistakes can mimic algorithm hits.
  • Find copies/scrapers with a quoted-snippet search: 
    "an exact sentence from the article" -site:example.com
  • Export the set of lost pages and sort by word count, uniqueness, and traffic value to prioritize fixes.

Practical remediation (prioritized)

  • Triage low-value pages first: noindex, consolidate, or 301-redirect duplicates and thin archives.
  • Improve remaining pages: add original analysis, data, clear authorship, and useful internal links.
  • Fix canonicalization and sitemap signals so Google knows the preferred URL. For syndicated content ensure syndicated copies link to the canonical original or use rel=canonical where possible.
  • For sites scraped by aggregators, document examples, contact hosts/operators, and consider DMCA as a last resort; meanwhile strengthen signals on the original (fresh timestamps, internal links, outreach for citations).

Monitoring and expectations

  • Track per-page recovery in Search Console and analytics; resubmit sitemaps and monitor crawl frequency. Algorithmic recovery often takes weeks to months after fixes, so prioritize high-value pages and log all changes for correlation with traffic shifts.

Practical tie-ins to thread posts

  • For ’s RSS/syndication concerns: prefer clear attribution and canonical signals for syndicated copies.
  • For ’s ranking‑maintenance question: focus first on improving the site’s highest-traffic, lowest-quality pages and on monitoring Search Console for concrete signals.
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Yeah, its confirmed today that Google upate softner panda today..

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Know anyone who recovered?

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I have a question, does anyone know how offering RSS feeds helps or hurts? I noticed this site offers them, and I offer then and i was hit but the update, but I'm now curious if google screwed up and is taking out the sites that provide others with an rss feed?

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No, at around the same time as Panda first came out (I think maybe a little before) Google announced proactive steps towards ensuring that, in the cases of duplicate content, the original source would be credited. They felt really strongly about this as RSS feeds and syndication in general is actually considered positive reinforcement as to the quality of the content, so I don't think it's something that they would then factor negatively as part of Panda.

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I would agree with you, that rss feeds help positive, but many sites use them as content fillers and to add fresh content to their sites.

I also know i was hit buy the second update, and know a few other close people that created 100% of their content and their sites tanked completly... becasue other more poepular sites scrapt their content and google took the site of the higher site.

Read this article if you have the time Click Here

Tim owns askthebuilder, use to be a top adesne publish and was the poster boy for them. I was in aww of his $1000 days. He was copied so much that he has mostly videos now, because he was tired of being the expert that others borrowed his own content then having their content rank higher becasue it was on a main stream content farm (as he calls them)

All in all, these updates show you that links are important for anyone... depening on a search engine is like bungee jumping with only one rubber band, rather then the thousands in a bungee cord... All I know is it woke me up.

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I noticed that when my ranking fall down, but I want to know that how I can maintain my ranking.

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