Sgt_Kickaxe
msg:4524091 | 7:45 am on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
This Panda seems to have been gentle overall, whatever hit Nov 16th/17th was much more cruel to many I think.
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claaarky
msg:4524096 | 9:16 am on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Our traffic improved 20%, that's two improvements in a row now but I have to say this was a much smaller improvement for my site than I expected.
My niche has hardly changed since 6th November so if they hadn't said there'd be a refresh on the 21st I would have put it down to normal seasonal fluctuations. It's normally much more obvious.
Saw some ranking changes on the 29th however which brought more traffic. I often wonder if Panda runs much more frequently than we realise. I've seen the stats of other sites which show huge falls at a non-panda date followed by a huge leap at an official panda date.
How confident are we that google tells us about all Panda refreshes?
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LostOne
msg:4524099 | 10:38 am on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I thought it was more weather related the last few weeks than anything after finally seeing some improvements for the first time since being hit by Panda 1.0. Colder weather typically brings in more traffic as many focus their home improvement (my industry) activities indoors.
Oh, I did see some improvements with the first Penguin, but that was probably related to many of those sites dropping off as a nice bump lasted only one month.
Maybe there's hope, but I'm still skeptical. No changes since this thread..
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HuskyPup
msg:4524156 | 2:50 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I've seen a steady improvement in traffic this week with much better trade widget enquiries to our B&M sites to the extent of our best week's new enquiries for several years .. i.e. Multi Million Dollar projects with 90% of them from the Middle East.
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diberry
msg:4524161 | 3:29 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I got a bump up on the 6th an again following this update.
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zeus
msg:4524174 | 4:56 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
always have Nov-December in mind, there often more traffic in those month.
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HuskyPup
msg:4524181 | 5:54 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| there often more traffic in those month |
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Not for my widgets, it's usually a steady downhill run towards Xmas on my "western" sites and a two week break. My Chinese and Indian sites remain pretty steady with their local traffic.
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Zivush
msg:4524182 | 5:54 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@claarky
| Our traffic improved 20%, that's two improvements in a row |
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I remember you told you were in a huge workout on you site lately, improving pages based on their performance. I'm very happy to see that it helped :-)
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claaarky
msg:4524211 | 9:19 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Thanks Zivush. Things do seem to be moving in the right direction at a pace now. Still a long way from a full recovery in terms of traffic but I still have loads of changes to make. It's my peak season now so I need to keep the site stable but once January arrives a batch of changes will be going live that I think will complete the recovery.
I've had some partial recoveries this year that didn't stick but I know why now so the site will be ready to handle the returning traffic this time.
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Zivush
msg:4524278 | 5:06 am on Dec 2, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Cheers claarky.
I think most of us know/realized that there are no shortcuts to offering the best content. It might be hard, but it surely rewarding at the end of the day. Let's keep going.
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Bewenched
msg:4524282 | 6:21 am on Dec 2, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| there are no shortcuts to offering the best content |
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Once you get the good content all the scrapers come calling. sometimes it seems like a never ending up hill battle... it really shouldn't be this way. Google has to know when the first instance of some content was... they have to.
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diberry
msg:4524314 | 4:59 pm on Dec 2, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I'm seeing some fluctuations today. When I check results myself, I'm up on this phrase, down on another - nothing too unusual there. But my stats program is showing that some visitors have found my keyphrases in very different positions than I'm seeing them. Looks like this activity was all early this morning, like maybe there was a different data set, but by the time I got up and started checking it was back to normal.
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getcooking
msg:4524320 | 5:40 pm on Dec 2, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| Looks like this activity was all early this morning, like maybe there was a different data set, but by the time I got up and started checking it was back to normal. |
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I noticed pretty much the same thing this morning. Traffic was stronger than I anticipated after being decimated by the latest Google updates so I started poking around. Things seemed to settle back down after a while unfortunately.
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diberry
msg:4524364 | 10:10 pm on Dec 2, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I'm seeing more dancing this afternoon. I'm ranking for phrases I've never seen before - strange stuff, and all long tail for the most part.
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tedster
msg:4524398 | 2:45 am on Dec 3, 2012 (gmt 0) |
If the Panda Update was on November 21, it seems to me that variations on December 1 and 2 would be related to something else rather Panda. Is there any reason to assume that Panda changes dragged on for 10 days?
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diberry
msg:4524433 | 5:51 am on Dec 3, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I don't have a clear understanding of how long it takes to see these updates, Tedster. If this can't be related, feel free to delete my post. I'll go mention it in the December changes thread, now that that's up.
(PS... ah, so we go ahead and use the old month's update thread and you guys just break off the posts starting at the current month to make the new thread. Sorry, I just now figured that out.,)
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tedster
msg:4524586 | 6:24 pm on Dec 3, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Thanks, diberry. There seems to have been something quite odd about this Panda Update - starting with an apparently incorrect "prediction" about when it would happen according to Google. I'm just trying to keep our analysis on track so we don't add any further confusion to the record.
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Splugged
msg:4524604 | 7:27 pm on Dec 3, 2012 (gmt 0) |
My site is ranking for "strange" long tail keywords.
This is the first time I see them in my stats.
"Money" keywords (short and long tail) completely down today.
Unuseful traffic, no interaction with site, 1 or 2 page/visitor.
-15% from G since yesterday.
Huge spike in crawl stats (GWT)
Something is on the way, I thing.
Anyone is experiencing something similar?
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menntarra 34
msg:4524627 | 10:01 pm on Dec 3, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@Splugged:
Traffic remains to be the same for the last 3-4 days, BUT:
Crawl stats are crazy, it is the highest in 3 months.
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diberry
msg:4524669 | 11:41 pm on Dec 3, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@Tedster - understood!
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