Well, a lot of people have been wondering recently about both the cause and the lasting effect of the more recent Panda updates in today’s article I will be discussing them as well as offering a couple tips on how to revive you Google standing if your site has dropped in the rankings.
Starting off one of the most important things about Panda is that it’s a domain level penalty, meaning if something is wrong with content on your website then the entire domain is penalized instead of that content. Also while being one of the more controversial of the Google updates Panda it has really helped improve the number of quality sites and searches online. They have also put a bigger focus on organic searching which really means people are now using search engines the way they speak and Google is adapting to it.
Google Panda doesn’t just randomly target websites when a website drops in the ranking it can be caused by many things some of the more know reasons are.
- A website with low quality (Thin content)
- Duplicate content
- Too many advertisements
- Poor grammar
- Slow site loading time
- SEO over optimization (Blackhat SEO)
- Lack of original content
Put the good news is this all can be fixed with a little work.
- Begin writing new, original, and quality content
- Erase duplicate pages
- Equalize your ads to content ratio
- Go back and correct bad grammar and continue it moving forward
- Remove unnecessary plugins from your website
- While working on SEO make sure you have quality content