Has your site lost considerable organic traffic after Google’s notorious series of Panda updates?\u00a0 Well, you’re not the only one.\u00a0 Check out this compilation of traffic statistics for big name sites that have been “pandalized.”<\/p>\n
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The list of big name sites include the likes of…<\/p>\n
Notice anything interesting?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Yes, these are all popular sites used by Internet Marketers.\u00a0 Internet Marketers love to use these sites to either publish spun articles for purposes of SEO or scrape these sites for articles to spin\/re-publish or both!\u00a0 As a result, a lot of these sites contain duplicate, spun articles.\u00a0 With Google’s Panda update, the focus and emphasize has been put on quality, original content.\u00a0 As a result, it makes sense for these big sites to lose a lot of traffic.<\/p>\n
This also implies that if you’ve traditionally relied on these sites for SEO, you may have felt the downstream effect of their decrease in authority.\u00a0 In other words, your site may not have been directly pinpointed by Panda as being a site with low quality content.\u00a0 Instead, your inbound links (from the above listed sites) have been pinpointed and therefore you have lost your previous SEO link juice.<\/p>\n
It is also very important to note that many big sites, also widely used by Internet Marketers, have not suffered at all because of Panda.\u00a0 These include the likes of…<\/p>\n