We at Internet Marketing Ninjas strongly recommend that you closely review your analytics for Google organic traffic over time. If a major drop in traffic has occurred, see if the date of the drop or the day the drop starts aligns with any of the major Google Panda updates listed below:

Here are the dates of the Penguin Updates

Now, the goal is to get out of Panda. Bear in mind that filing a re-inclusion request or a reconsideration request will not have any effect on the Panda penalty. Panda updates are often complicated, with many different facets to be explored and analyzed; those mentioned above are just a few factors. By running and extensively analyzing multiple proprietary tools and conducting detailed auditing, the Ninjas are able to generate many possible solutions and implement them to send better signals to Google. After solutions have been implemented, your website can be re-analyzed.

Getting out of Panda is not easy. In February of 2012, Barry Schwartz, an SEO industry thought leader, posted the results of his survey from Search Engine Roundtable asking how many people had recovered after Panda updates. The sobering fact is that a full year after Panda started, only 13% of the websites had recovered! This is not something to be taken lightly, and webmasters cannot usually fix it with a few simple tweaks. This is a matter of finding the “cancers” of your website content and fixing them or cutting them out, whether that means repairing bad interlinking, adding new content, or just improving the user experience. More specifically, it often translates to identifying the sections of the website that the Panda algorithm has targeted as being low-quality and fixing those sections or removing them completely.

Jim Boykin, the CEO of Internet Marketing Ninjas, has written extensively on the Google Panda updates and is considered a thought leader in the area of Panda update recovery. Jim has also spoken about Google’s Panda updates at several major industry conferences since early 2011, such as Search Exchange, Search Engine Strategies, Pubcon, and more. Here is what some of our industry experts have to say about Panda:

• Five “Panda Proof” Internal Linking Strategies
• Panda 3.2 Refreshes: Hope for the Future?
• Google Says “Add 3 Ad Units to Prominent Sections of Your Pages”… So We Can Penalize You With Panda!
• Google Panda Update: Content + Design = Usable, Trustworthy Websites
• Google Agent Rank and Reputational Scores… It’s About Content and Writers and Panda!
• Google Panda Update — Short Clicks and Long Clicks/Pogosticking
• Losing Clients to Panda: I Just Lost $17,500/Month
• Google Panda Update — Panda’s Punitive Punishment of Good Content
• Google Panda Update — Google’s Content Guidance and Jim’s Take
• Google Panda Update — A Overview of Analytics of Five Panda 2-Affected Websites
• Google Panda Update — User Behavior and Other Signals.
• Google Panda Update — Thoughts and Solutions from Jim Boykin
• Panda Update

If your website has been hit by Panda, contact Internet Marketing Ninjas today for some of the best tools, in-depth analysis, and solutions in the industry. Our CEO applies his extensive knowledge and understanding of Panda to crafting and fine-tuning how Internet Marketing Ninjas advises clients regarding issues with Google updates. Our Panda recovery rate is much higher than the industry standard, and we have several clients who have not only recovered but are at record traffic levels. Having analyzed both the various causes and solutions related to Panda, we are confident that we can help you recover and prosper in a post-Panda world. The more you can implement our solutions, the better your website will be, not only for search engines but also for user experience and conversions.