Finally Google Panda Algorithm update is implemented worldwide and most of the users are now facing lower traffic because of the new algorithm. In the first update it was implemented only in the United States, where in everyone was expecting eHow to be going down but it actually gained. Now in the second update finally eHow content generation machine has finally lost a lot of keywords in the SERPS.
Losers
| # | Domain | Change | SISTRIX before | SISTRIX after | # KWs (before) | # KWs (after) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ehow.com | -66% | 411,56 | 138,70 | 489.294 | 228.592 |
| 2 | greatschools.org | -56% | 37,38 | 16,56 | 36.574 | 15.697 |
| 3 | brighthub.com | -91% | 17,45 | 1,49 | 59.574 | 16.004 |
| 4 | markosweb.com | -85% | 18,54 | 2,71 | 13.057 | 5.867 |
| 5 | superpages.com | -68% | 17,64 | 5,64 | 61.493 | 32.171 |
| 6 | medterms.com | -53% | 22,46 | 10,49 | 9.637 | 4.416 |
| 7 | life123.com | -94% | 11,70 | 0,72 | 60.281 | 20.764 |
| 8 | tech-faq.com | -57% | 17,19 | 7,33 | 10.290 | 4.666 |
| 9 | spike.com | -64% | 14,72 | 5,28 | 10.711 | 5.203 |
| 10 | thefreecountry.com | -87% | 10,05 | 1,30 | 5.099 | 1.153 |
| 11 | managementhelp.org | -66% | 13,25 | 4,54 | 2.661 | 959 |
| 12 | videojug.com | -90% | 9,50 | 0,91 | 19.767 | 6.582 |
| 13 | 10best.com | -87% | 9,38 | 1,19 | 10.996 | 2.996 |
| 14 | quintcareers.com | -70% | 11,62 | 3,44 | 4.457 | 1.609 |
| 15 | mortgageloan.com | -58% | 13,51 | 5,73 | 4.320 | 1.624 |
The Biggest Loser from the above list as per Sistrix is eHow which has lost 66% visibility in the form of loosing around quarter million keywords rankings followed by many large websites like brighthub, tech-faq, videojug and 10best.com etc.
Following is a list of all the Winners who have actually gained lot in terms of better rankings for their keywords. You can find that co-incidentally most of the winners found on all the lists published on the web are actually having mainly mainstream websites which does give us a hint that Google is favoring large websites and not supporting smaller ones.
Winners
| # | Domain | Change | SISTRIX before | SISTRIX after | # KWs (before) | # KWs (after) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wiktionary.org | 28% | 126,18 | 161,18 | 30.817 | 33.685 |
| 2 | yelp.com | 8% | 133,36 | 143,62 | 170.209 | 174.139 |
| 3 | dailymotion.com | 31% | 27,27 | 35,80 | 64.191 | 71.795 |
| 4 | etsy.com | 8% | 94,85 | 102,29 | 79.669 | 81.986 |
| 5 | sears.com | 12% | 60,80 | 68,00 | 46.791 | 49.899 |
| 6 | huffingtonpost.com | 8% | 85,07 | 91,69 | 111.429 | 114.950 |
| 7 | latimes.com | 9% | 45,24 | 49,38 | 99.068 | 101.657 |
| 8 | boston.com | 20% | 20,30 | 24,44 | 38.359 | 39.569 |
| 9 | mashable.com | 15% | 19,53 | 22,42 | 25.079 | 26.786 |
| 10 | tomshardware.com | 13% | 21,44 | 24,29 | 56.282 | 59.782 |
| 11 | pcmag.com | 9% | 29,50 | 32,29 | 28.723 | 28.928 |
| 12 | cbsnews.com | 8% | 36,33 | 39,07 | 55.828 | 56.955 |
| 13 | computing.net | 29% | 8,53 | 11,01 | 21.682 | 24.174 |
| 14 | reuters.com | 9% | 28,22 | 30,64 | 56.925 | 58.852 |
| 15 | ask.com | 12% | 19,38 | 21,78 | 89.568 | 92.988 |
Overall did you find a large impact on your business with this update from Google?
Hi.,, Amit .. With my 2011 Jan’s traffic i was expecting good things for my blog.. thanks to the Panda Update I’am now back to where I was about a 1yrs back…In Jan’2011 I was having around 90K PV’s/month now with the current traffic after the panda Update I think Its hard to even touch 40-50K PV’s/month 🙁
Avinash – this has been the cases with most of the bloggers and there is nothing really which they could do. Just wait and work on better stuff for positive trends.
Its true amit bhawani. I would like to say to all bloggers just concentrate on writing better stuff.
Digital Inspiration just escaped I believe, luckily got recovered soon enough. Any impact on your blog?
yep, frankly speaking this blog especially did loose quite significant rankings and we are working on better content and strategies to overcome the same.
Panda Update also effected blogspot and wordpress blogs???
yes most of the sites on the web are affected and its not just limited to WordPress based blogs.
Awesome !! sometime i wonder how you collective such a precise data, though helpful every time.
No idea why eHow is affected by this update. wiktionary.org was so far unknown for many users.
eHow was always the main targeted website which is why all these issues started.
Since my website is only two and half month,I didn’t see and negative affect on my site.Instead traffic is growing day by day.Thanks for sharing.
Yes for small or new sites the effect is quite very less.
Yes Panda affected many big sites, we also enjoying more than 50% Google traffic boost from the date of Global update.
Panda update also affected my blog and I lost some of my traffic. Any tips to recover from it?
I was expecting a better experience with my site after the panda update. But it has happened just the opposite. Some specific content scrapers are copying most of my articles (some copy all posts) and give no link back or any credit. And they are ranking above me. I noticed that for a specific keyword, three sites which scraped my content is ranking above me, I repeat 3 sites! The image they use have my name on it!
I think Google is promoting content scrapping with this Panda update! I am so irritated because, I have been working hard on my site for over an year and now some one else copying my work is getting the credit for it.
I hope Google looks into this serious problem and fix it soon.
Not sure , but since my blog is relatively new , I haven’t faced any issues. Do you have any advice to get rid of Panda effect , by the way.
Hello Amit, can you please make it clear, what does it actually mean, Panda Update? Can you please elaborate how tech and biz sites will be affected with it?
And finally, did you notice any changes to yours?
am getting some good number of visitors 🙂
I am affected by this update too, Lost 50% of the visitors. Earlier i was getting 9,000 visitors a day , now less than 4000 per day. Since i am an Adsense Publisher i am affected a lot by this.
Amit, Your blog also lost some visitors.
Amit, any idea about Ezinearticle.com traffic. In the first update, it was perhaps one of biggest traffic losers. But how are they doing with second update? They seem to have made lots of changes to their system to match up with Google algo…
one of my travel blogs got huge traffic boost from this panda update…seems its all random…or may be a clear picture will emerge after some time…
It’s really unbelievable for me, that eHow lost a huge amount of traffic 🙁 Good Luck Guys 🙂
Oo! My blog has no change on ranking and still getting most users from google. So, Panda is for others not for me. Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. 🙂 🙂
I noticed that for a specific keyword, three sites which scraped my content is ranking above me. I think Google is promoting content scrapping with this Panda update! I am so irritated because, I have been working hard on my site for over an year and now some one else copying my work is getting the credit for it.
I have 2 sites
i got loss of visitors and other is getting ranked good.
But overall its loss to me as the Major traffic site is affected by this.
Does this means that the new sites will not come to search engine at all ?
Great Info.. keep up the good work you are very talented!…
You have worked hard to make this list. BTW I have not suffered any loss due to this and I am happy about that 🙂
How we come to know whether My blog is effected from the Effect of Google Panda Algorithm or not! and Really appreciate your work for gathering the data of much renowned websites.
Nice info! I am very happy with my site now. Since Google Panda appeared, it reaches more visitors than before. Perhaps, the matter lay in unique and fresh content I compiled.
1 of my site been penalized due to this rubbish panda update. I have seen many people have punished injustice. Google should check it manually. And solve the issue soon. Thanks
Yes, Clearly noticed traffic drop in my 2 main sites.. 1 site which was getting traffic of 8K UV per day is getting traffic of 1500 Per day almost 80% Down, another site which was getting abt 15K UV daily traffic is getting ard 10-12K daily traffic means ard 25% drop.
Strange thing is small sites which used to get about 10-15K UV per month are getting more traffic, specially my health blog traffic is increased by 30%.
God known How to understand their algo and When they gona imply this in India.
Hey Amit, I am following your blog since long time.. Yes I have seen, Google Panda algorithm updated and results found totally reverse in so many sites. Main focus is in copy content and you will lose your ranking and traffic. I think that is really good move by Google…
hey amit now i got, that why my blog(http://dhananjay247.blogspot.com) is getting more traffic 🙂
thanks a lot for this useful info …..
This is a crappy update. I don’t mind being thrown into the 3rd pages if the sites ranking above me are quality ones.
But there are many sites with 20 pages and even a squidoo lens on getting top 10 ranks in my niche. What the heck ? My site is over 5 years old with hundreds of pages and has been scrapped many times by other sites. Surely Google cannot penalize me for this ?
One of my main niche sites lost 45% of its traffic from April 1 til now. It is very discouraging to have invested so much of my time into generating original content, just to have my efforts plundered in a few days.
What were they thinking? I mean it’s great that content farms got hit and spammy sites, but there have been many websites with excellent original content that have suffered greatly.
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hey amit,
will u please , what should we do now??
can v work acoording to this new algo, is dere ny chance to again increase our traffic???
I think Google is promoting content scrapping with this Panda update! I am so irritated because, I have been working hard on my site for over an year and now some one else copying my work is getting the credit for it.