Comments on: Google Panda: They’re Right, You’re Wrong–Now Get Writing [opinion]

By: Ivana

Ivana — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:37:51 +0000

I got whacked by Google Panda myself aswell…

I’ve recently been looking for ways around the Google Panda update and I did a lot of analysis on my own sites.
Listed below are several key points to consider:

1) minimize bouncerate on your websites
2) get rid of/nofollow/noindex thin and low quality web pages
3) increase Click Through Rate in the serps (E.g use crazy call to actions and things in your page titles)
4) give a lot more increased value with your website (improve users onpage time)
5) interlink your website through optimized anchor texts
6) use a privacy policy, about us, contact us, google maps location, SSL, address/phone number, images, subtiles, paragraphs, bulletpoints etc etc (every “achievable” added quality factors you can think of)
7) Achieve additional quality one-way links with good anchor text variation.

Link building has to be done in a very diverse and consistent fashion.

Another thing, I am a ‘beta’ tester of LinkALoha at the moment and i’m seeing GREAT results. I think they are going to open a few new spots shortly, you guys should take a look. Those guys are great

By: Wayne Barker

Wayne Barker — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:25:38 +0000

Great article Greg,

All we hear is quality content this and quality content. Make it worthy, useful – research it well, add nice pictures. We hear it again and again because its true. Do you want find shoddy content when searching? absolutely not. I have harped on about it for a while now, but i think this was a great move by Google. Let the guys who put the effort into their content get a bit of visibility!!!!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:43:14 +0000

Necessary evil unfortunately, some innocents who have been wrapped up in the whole back links thing will also catch out but people need to learn that SEO should be based around quality content and relationships rather than looking for cracks in the system.

Ultimately, it’s tough love, but that’s the best kind in the long run.

By: Maciej

Maciej — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:29:36 +0000

You are right, there is way too much crap sitting in the search results and your limo driver example hits the nail on the head. I think Google’s move to clean this effort up in the article space will be great for search….after the dust settles of course.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:18:10 +0000

One of my sites got hit very bad. I am working hard to clean it up as there is a lot of old outdated content that is duplicated or just poor quality. Hoping it helps me bounce back. If I do bounce back I will probably be in a position to write all about it. My change log is already 257 rows long and I only started 2 days ago, so plenty of content there, just hope it is useful.

By: PauliusR

PauliusR — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:25:17 +0000

My online business is completely dependent on Google’s search results, so I’m afraid of every change, even if those changes are minor and I feel like I haven’t done anything wrong, the risk always remains. Anyway, I agree that it’s a positive change and let’s hope that our hard work will pay off

By: Bjorn Johansen

Bjorn Johansen — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:01:57 +0000

I think it’s great Google removes junk from the results. A lot of the article and spining industry is pure junk. It looks like my website also got a minor hit, because I have lost my page 2 ranking on one of my main phrases. The page went down to page 10, and I have removed the page now. The page had some snippets of text borrowed from the product page of the affiliate product.