Comments on: Was Matt Cutts’ Blog Hit by Panda?

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:40:54 +0000

Philip, yes, I think Google is using a heavy-handed approach that takes down too many sites driven by the average guy who’s probably doing most of the work on nights and weekends. What’s left standing is big brands, celebrities and those with hefty budgets. I do think it goes beyond ads or no ads, thin or thick content or the famous 23 questions. Google is not saying much about panda and recoveries seem rare. Keep testing and making changes until something works, I’d say.

By: Phillp

Phillp — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:06:20 +0000

Emory, so he got hit by his own system. Meaning the rest of the internet was doing what he promotes. ''Unique rich content''. There is nothing which hurts like creating rich data and get hit by these pandas. Time is money , and it takes a lot to write a good article. I use google daily, and i find lots of sites with thin content. I have a website i created in 2010, it was just a test with no adverts but all its content is thin and poor, but the site is never affected. Then i created a related site with better content and original, but it has Google Ads, and that one was affected. So i wonder what the trick is. ADS or Quality. Do they expect us to make quality with no ADS.

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:07:47 +0000

Phillip, there are a number of original/rich-content sites that were hit by Panda and some not that much different from Matt’s. It’s not at all difficult to imagine that whatever tripped the others could impact him as well.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:33:40 +0000

As for the big quality sites, most of them were getting visits via thousands and thousands of long tail keywords , so they could be on top at any time. I guess the update is about making the game balanced. Since the Panda Update is determined by a Machine, then MATT CUTTS was spotted by that machine…You might find his blog has some Thin Content pages on the inside which triggered the Panda.

By: ppc campaign

ppc campaign — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:51:48 +0000

I had one chance to attend a lecture about Google Panda. From that time on, I’ve been very careful with my link building strategies and especially with my contents although I wasn’t really affected by the changes.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:40:32 +0000

Well, that would be ironic. Even though he supposedly isn’t affected, it’s clear that some powerful businesses and bloggers were. The search engines are always making tweaks to the algorithms and your best bet is to follow their guidelines and practice a white hat strategy to avoid a penalty.

By: Hamish

Hamish — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:42:53 +0000

Good point above – you would think that more people than ever would be hitting up MC’s blog trying to get some clues as to how to deal with the Panda.

Maybe paranoia has grown to the point where people think that their visits to MC’s blog can be logged and tracked back to their thin affiliate sites!

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:26:47 +0000

Yes, that would be one of my first reactions, go to the authoritative source.

By: David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:35:10 +0000

You would think that something as big as Panda would drive all the predictably panicky folks to Matt Cutts’ blog and increase the traffic.