They are looking for some additional signals for sites that are in the "gray area" or "border zone", and looking for other signals that suggest the site truly is high quality, so it will help those sites who have been previously impacted by Panda.
The problem for Google is these sites provided little value for Google's users, so Google decided to deal with them by putting out the Panda Update, part of which deals with thin or poorly written content sites.
Over time the most popular topics have changed as well; for example in 2011 Panda was a big concern. Interestingly I didn't star as many articles on Penguin; I think that this is a reflection on the fact that Panda was more around owned media...
Panda punched spun articles and gibberish content in the head, which was a wake up call. Good, normal people got slammed by Panda and Penguin. Only build relevant links on sites that are maintained and read by actual humans.
While traffic metrics probably fall more under Panda than Penguin, the lines between the two are increasingly blurring to a point where the two will shortly become indistinguishable. Panda has already been subsumed into the core algorithm and...
With the rapid adoption and renewed interest in content, part cause and part consequence of Google's Panda and Penguin updates, search engine optimization (SEO) tactics, tools, and business processes have changed dramatically.
April Fools Pranks 2011 - Bamboo Update Restores Sites Dropped by Google Panda Google I/O - Gadgets, over-heated computers and innovation Ever been searching Google and wanted to know what something smells like, what other searchers are sniffing...
Panda and Penguin, Google's major algorithmic updates targeting thin content and unnatural linking practices respectively, have forced us to evolve. The domain quality scores for these media sites are very high, but if no one is reading the content...
Since the Panda update, link acquisition has evolved into providing great content that audiences care about. As even AJ Kohn, outspoken web marketer, states: "Author Rank could be more disruptive than all of the Panda updates combined.
These are low quality pages that shouldn’t, in a post Panda world rank for anything, but in some cases they still do, so they keep trying. If you’re working with a site that relies on this type of tactic trickery in order to survive, then perhaps...
Embedding informative, educational and helpful videos within your content will undoubtedly boost time on page and elicit more of those “long stays” that Google is placing more and more value on with each Panda Update.
So, what causes the surge in traffic that I’ve seen across several of the sites hit by Panda or Penguin? As more pages were added over time, and more users left, Google hammered the site during the next Panda update.
Upholding quality content on the web has been a priority for Google for some time, and is reflected in its Panda algorithm update, among other initiatives like its human quality raters. If you have SEO tools that give you unbiased results for what...
Google’s objective with Panda is to help users find "high-quality" sites by diminishing the visibility (ranking power) of low-quality content, all of which is accomplished at scale, algorithmically. But with Panda, Google has taken a dramatically...
I will remember that tons of sites have been destroyed by Panda, and that it’s cool that there are over a billion Facebook users. I learned about Google’s algorithm named “PANDA” that hammers poor quality content on the internet.
By now, everyone in the ecommerce search engine world – including digital marketers and content writers – knows about the Google Panda update or, worse, has been directly affected by it. Panda changed the rules – prioritizing text content over...
MJ: Google's Panda really hit a lot of site owners hard and some are in the mindset that they now need to be "content mills". MJ: What are some creative ways you've seen sites create fresh/unique content without churning out content for the sake of...
More Panda releases, Penguin, The EMD update, top heavy ads, and the DMCA update all mark a shift in capabilities for Google. Such sites publishing that content does represent a legitimate endorsement of the author's expertise.
In-content is still the best type of links, but the key is when you’re doing guest author links, post-Penguin and Panda and all those updates, it’s not necessarily about, “Hey, here’s bio links. Whether they get a, you know, for a specific feature...
Enough people have covered Panda and Penguin to make it pretty common SEO knowledge that things like content, links and usability, some of the exact things that can elevate a site, can also be the things that cut it down.
