Google Panda Update: Your Site is Going to Survive (funny)
I was on my way home tonight listening to an old mix CD I have when I heard an old Hank Williams Jr song called “Country Boy Can Survive.”…. and since my mind is so immersed in this Google Panda Update…I started playing with the lyrics for fun… I ended up reworking the lyrics…and it […]
- 05-26-2011
- Google, Panda Update
Google Panda Update: Content + Design = Usable, trustworthy websites
Google Panda Update:Â Content + Design = Usable, trustworthy websites I stole the headline “Content + Design = Usable, trustworthy websites” from Chris Trude‘s comment in a thread by Derek Halpern of Social Triggers. Derek wrote a great post, where he talks about a study in which people were asked to search and then record […]
- 05-18-2011
- Google, Panda Update
Google Agent Rank and Reputational Scores…It’s About Content and Writers and Panda!
Let’s Learn Agent Rank and Reputational Scores…it’s about Content and Writers and Panda. So here we are, almost 3 months since the “Big” Panda Poop of Feb 24th…and still, no light at the end of the tunnel for those who got pooped on by the Panda Update. It’s 1:40am…and I still have a few posts […]
- 05-12-2011
- Google, Panda Update
Losing Clients to Panda. I Just Lost $17,500/month.
Google Panda Update: Losing Clients to Panda. Just lost me $17,500/month. This week I lost 3 clients…these 3 clients were all hit by the April Panda Update. Client #1 – They’re convinced that they were not hit by Panda. I even did a post, showing analytics of 5 sites that were hit by the April […]
- 05-10-2011
- Google, Panda Update
Google Panda Update – Short Clicks and Long Clicks / Pogosticking
Google Panda Update: Short Clicks and Long Clicks / Pogosticking OK, Folks, we have some old words, and old signals that have become more popular in the days of Post-Panda. “Short Clicks – Long Clicks” – and “Pogosticking”. Add these to your SEO dictionary if you don’t have them in there already. I’ve started reading […]
- 05-09-2011
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Google Panda Update – Panda’s Punitive Punishment of Good Content.
The Panda will Punish your Good Content if you have Bad Content as well….Panda Inflicts Punitive Damages on your Good Content…(but hey, Google says it’s not a penalty…it’s just an algorithm change). On Friday May 6th, Google’s Amit Singhal wrote an interesting post on the Google WebmasterCentral Blog called, “More Guidance on Building High Quality […]
- 05-08-2011
- Google, Panda Update
Google Panda Update – Google’s Content Guidance and Jim’s Take.
So Panda I rolled out Feb 24, 2011, and Panda II rolled out April 11…and Panda III…well, that could be any day now. Google says that they were targeting “Content Farms”, but none of the sites that I have been analyzing have been “Content Farms”. The clients that I had that were effected, and the […]
- 05-07-2011
- Google, Panda Update
Google Panda Update – A Overview of Analytics of 5 Panda II Affected Sites.
I happen to have 5 screenshots of 5 sites that were hit by Panda II. I thought that others might want to see this overview information as well, so I thought I’d post them (client identities are protected). I’ve having issues publishing images to the old blog here…so I turned this post into a PDF […]
- 05-05-2011
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Google Panda Update – User Behavior and Other Signals.
The Google Panda Update – Did user Behavior Signals tell the Panda to Poop on your site? The past few months I’ve been reading a lot of interesting theories about the Google Panda Update…and I’ve read a lot of noise (stuff I don’t believe)… even one of the top results in a search in Google […]
- 05-02-2011
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Google Panda Update – Thoughts and Solutions from Jim Boykin
Google Panda Update – Background and Possible Solutions. I’ve been in SEO for over 12 years and I’ve seen several major Google updates over the years…and this year there’s the Panda Update that has 14% of search results shot to a new Google Hell, a Hell called Panda. To understand Panda, you need to know […]
- 04-25-2011
- Google, Panda Update
