veejayshakthi
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- Feb 18, 2010
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How I F**K GOOGLE PANDA
Unfortunately, this was just the first of many Google Panda updates. In April, when Panda Update 2.0 struck, I was not so lucky. One of my most profitable sites got hit hard, which put a big dent in my earnings.
Which was surprising, since it was an aged site, with all unique and quality content. Plus, it had good user engagement with lots of real, blog comments.
Take a look my Clicky traffic stats from that time period:
April 10th: 508 visitors
April 11th: 181 visitors
April 12th: 69 visitors
Basically, I had just lost 86% of my traffic overnight. The site was earning around $200-$250 a day so it really hurt to lose a good chunk of this income. I was still ranked decently for quite a few of my keywords. It was just that the keywords that were driving the majority of traffic to my site had dropped out of the top 100 completely.
I did a variety of things to attempt to recover from the loss. I started added new content to the site, I removed my Google Adsense Ads, and I tried fixing broken links on the site.
And it worked?kind of. My four highest traffic keywords had returned to their original rankings, and traffic increased accordingly. (Note: I now attribute most of this to the newly added content as I later put back my Adsense ads with no negative effect)
Unfortunately, this was just the first of many Google Panda updates. In April, when Panda Update 2.0 struck, I was not so lucky. One of my most profitable sites got hit hard, which put a big dent in my earnings.
Which was surprising, since it was an aged site, with all unique and quality content. Plus, it had good user engagement with lots of real, blog comments.
Take a look my Clicky traffic stats from that time period:
April 10th: 508 visitors
April 11th: 181 visitors
April 12th: 69 visitors
Basically, I had just lost 86% of my traffic overnight. The site was earning around $200-$250 a day so it really hurt to lose a good chunk of this income. I was still ranked decently for quite a few of my keywords. It was just that the keywords that were driving the majority of traffic to my site had dropped out of the top 100 completely.
I did a variety of things to attempt to recover from the loss. I started added new content to the site, I removed my Google Adsense Ads, and I tried fixing broken links on the site.
And it worked?kind of. My four highest traffic keywords had returned to their original rankings, and traffic increased accordingly. (Note: I now attribute most of this to the newly added content as I later put back my Adsense ads with no negative effect)
