Timeline for How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?
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| Jul 17, 2011 at 17:02 | comment | added | Itai | Does not seem so. I actually read those earlier this morning. More importantly, nothing has changed over the last years about this. Got some un-descriptive ALT attributes but that's it. | |
| Jul 17, 2011 at 16:08 | comment | added | JMC | Usually small changes in PR isn't a very good indicator of actual SERP position, but a dramatic drop like that is problematic for sure. That would lead me to speculate some of your backlinks have been devalued. Is your site in violation of the webmasters guildelines?: google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 | |
| Jul 17, 2011 at 14:00 | comment | added | Itai | Checked the PR with a couple of services. I do not know how reliable they are but they now indicate a PR of 0 while they would previously indicate a PR of 4 for the homepage. Does that give any hint? | |
| Jul 17, 2011 at 4:14 | comment | added | JMC | Yes, most people affected by it feel it's way too aggressive. It's like getting blind sided in a car accident, you don't see it coming. A number of people believe that deleting the lowest performing pages has a beneficial affect, but I haven't seen that work in action yet, I can't vouch for it. It makes sense, but it will also lower your overall traffic so it's a gamble, but possibly worthwhile since you're dropping the low performers. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 21:19 | comment | added | Itai | Yes, no one really knows. I know my site does not fall into that category but Google's algorithm may not have the same interpretation. If this is causing the drop, it is certainly an aggressive change. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 15:19 | comment | added | JMC | A lot of people speculate about Panda's intentions, but duplicate content usually isn't part of it. Getting rid of poor quality content is the most agreed purpose of Panda. This is all speculation on my part, but Panda seems to place a bigger bulls-eye on older sites with lots of long articles, especially if they're written more to the search engine than the end-user (not saying you fall in this category). | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 13:00 | comment | added | Itai | The drop is generalized, with way more pages dropping in traffic than those not. Panda is about duplicate content, no? Most of my content is made of long articles and AFAIK (with one exception of an article that one site has entirely copied), sites usually only copy 2-3 paragraphs at a time and then refer to mine as the source. We have no duplicate content in article directories either. The site has revenue from AdSense and Affiliates, almost split evenly. As expected it has significantly dropped :( and this is how I make a living. | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 4:39 | history | edited | JMC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2011 at 4:21 | history | answered | JMC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |