This is a penalty, not the algorithm, so not a Panda issue. While Panda is an algorithmic change that addresses sites that have thin content, there is also a manual site action that can be applied to your site that means someone on the Webspam Team...
Pages like this, if not handled with best SEO practices, could fall under Panda. Bloomingdale's is a leader in fashion in the brick and mortar world. But how does a store with history back to the 1800s adapt to the new online world?
Panda 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...
No Panda, Penguin, or any other cute furry creatures back then, nope! 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...
Since then Panda iterations have had SEO practitioners reinforcing similar "content is king" mantras, and have had SEO doomsayers laughing maniacally at how SEO is dead (once again! While Google's Panda updates did help define "better content...
Step 2: Panda-Proof Your Website In the days before Panda, you could take a really bad website, stuff it with keywords, point the right links to it and rank number one for "name any keyword. Steps to Panda-proofing a site include:
April Fools Pranks 2011 - Bamboo Update Restores Sites Dropped by Google Panda You know, immature and cheesy, with a quick, bright finish. At least according to Google Nose, one of the latest additions to Google's long line of new technologies that...
As even AJ Kohn, outspoken web marketer, states: "Author Rank could be more disruptive than all of the Panda updates combined. Since the Panda update, link acquisition has evolved into providing great content that audiences care about.
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.
For webmasters attempting to reshape an SEO strategy that failed in 2012 due to Penguin and Panda, re-engaging SEO cocitation is a smart move. Each year SEO experts profess that SEO, as we knew it, is dead.
Google dropped the Panda of paid search with enhanced campaigns, the most radical change to managing paid search in years. Product changes are inevitable, but the value is often mixed. Consider session based broad match vs.modified broad match.
Panda and Penguin have changed SEO forever and while many SEOs suffered as a result, most content marketers saw it as an awesome and welcome change. TopRank Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden presented his SES London session, Creative Content Marketing...
More Panda releases, Penguin, The EMD update, top heavy ads, and the DMCA update all mark a shift in capabilities for Google. The past 2 years have brought in a tremendous amount of change in the world of search, and 2013 will be no different.
In the wake of Panda and Penguin, many webmasters and small business owners have come to realize that great content is an important foundation of an effective online marketing strategy. Google’s Penguin and Panda algorithm updates put an end to the...
In February 2011, Panda fundamentally changed website creation and promotion. Panda's push for meatier content has led to many players covering the same low-hanging fruit. Contrary to the “predictions,” it wasn't the end of the world, just the end...
Panda and Penguin top the list as the most visible game-changers, but there is another one that occurred somewhat under the radar – but has been equally dramatic in its impact on SEO. It would be an understatement to say that the SEO landscape has...
Here’s how tapping in to the study of human behavior can help us better understand people’s actions and build stronger ties in a post-Penguin/Panda world. Since Google's Penguin/Panda updates, outreach solely based on “link building” significantly...
Even after all the Panda, Penguin and Freshness updates, it's still amazing to see some agencies providing quotes to clients where the main thrust of the contract is a promise to build x number of backlinks per month.
Yes, in the wake of Google's Panda and Penguin updates, you must have amazing original, unique, and well-written content and natural appearing backlink structures. However, in this day of Panda and Penguin and 1-2 changes to Google's algorithm...
While we face a multiplex of challenges and opportunity brought by Panda, Penguin and the reduction in keyword data (SSL) provided by Google the fact remains that putting a value on opportunity and managing your search campaigns accordingly is vital.
