Comments on: How To Fill the Farmer (Panda) Update Void

By: Ole

Ole — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:10:23 +0000

I think its has hit Europe now, or else Google just dont like my site anymore

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:18:23 +0000

This update is still only in US right? I’m a bit confused on what that really means. A website on US datacenters will get affected? If you declare default country as US in analytics? Registered in the US? Because I can be outside US but most of my traffic is coming in from the US.

By: Ole

Ole — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:34:34 +0000

Is there any word on when the Pandafarmer update reaches Europe

I have 2 affiliate sites which was on 1st place in Google, one of them dropped 4 places the other one stayed in the top, so maybe its here already ?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:06:07 +0000

Nice article Arnie, and thanks for the link to Vanessa’s article too. I’m currently searching the net for solutions to a (new) clients problem. They have massive amounts of autogenerated pages to attract visitors to a service they provide. They’re a perfect Panda target – no questions there, but their problem is that they need the extremely long tail since there’s really no telling where their customers might come in. No evident search phrases to target. The combinations of words leads to tens of thousands of pages and they have managed to get top positions on many of the unusual combinations and backup the more competitive ones with better comtent.

Their fear now is that most of their network might take a huge hit, leaving them spending all their money on Adwords. Again, one might argue that’s just fine – they’re occupying SERP space with little content and dupes with just the few words altered. But I’m stumped as to what they could have done differently on a limited budget. One alternative is to divide the network into different domains, spin content and try to fake being unique, but I’m not sure that makes the net a better place even if I get away with it. The current solution seems more “honest”.

I guess this is Googles way of saying “no, you can’t do business that way”, and on the personal level I agree. With my business hat on I’m worried. The Panda has yet to reach Europe, but that’s just a matter of time.

Ducking..