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8:31 pm
June 9, 2011
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QuoteHey y'all,
This just in from wordtracker about Google's "Panda" algorithm patch:
It seems that Google once again, would like us to sing for our supper, however the tunes are yet to be named.
Despite what this article suggests, I have consistently been able to get 2 pages from my website to rank for the same keywords on page one. Maybe I'm just lucky or something...
-Steve
6:33 pm
June 7, 2011
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Steve Rodgers said:
Hey y'all,
This just in from wordtracker about Google's "Panda" algorithm patch:
It seems that Google once again, would like us to sing for our supper, however the tunes are yet to be named.
Despite what this article suggests, I have consistently been able to get 2 pages from my website to rank for the same keywords on page one. Maybe I'm just lucky or something...
-Steve
Thanks for sharing the article. I tend to think this stuff is largely just perpitrated by the people who profit off of charging you for their SEO services. From what I'm experiencing, two things are trumping most others when it comes to SEO. 1, the number of links to your site (and the relevance of the anchor text). 2. The bounce rate.
In short, if your site looks like an authority site in terms of the number of sites linking to it and people are staying on the site for a while when they get there, Google is rewarding you. The rest of the traditional SEO factors play into it as well, but not as much as those two things... In my experience anyway.
The algorithm shifts are always just identifying patterns that search engine spammers use, and then devaluing those patterns. If you create good content and publish it to a site that is well structured, you'll be fine. I've been pretty focused on SEO for 4 years now and I've never really seen any effect from these algorithm updates. But then, I've tried to avoid short cuts as much as possible.
Long story short, I got that same email you did with the link to the article, and I didn't even bother reading it 🙂
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2:02 am
August 27, 2011
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I'm with John on this. Google will always have the upper-hand and it's easy to second guess everything you do. Or you can just create unique content that provides value and will stand up to an in-person audit by a Google employee.
It might take you longer to rank, but you'll have a lot less 'do-overs' than the people who cashed in on loopholes and 'grey hat' methods that were finally given the Google smack-down.
On a semi-related note: my Ezine Articles traffic became non-existent around mid April (I think this may have coincided with Panda Update 2.0 or something like that) but has recently been sending me traffic again. I'm thinking that Ezine Articles has taken the necessary steps to 'clean up their content' that Google is starting to give them more trust again. Anyone else notice something similar to this?
12:50 pm
June 7, 2011
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I actually saw a boost in traffic from EZA after the Panda update, then it slowed a bit but not too dramatically. But I always ONLY publish content to EZA and not to my site or other directories. People I've talked to that saw a drop were typically people who published the article on multiple sites. how did you go about it?
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