Sand - 7:23 pm on Jun 10, 2012 (gmt 0)

Interesting.

My only site that's been impacted by Panda is also a numerical data site -- basically, I take a bunch of government data from different agencies, and then mash it up it to tell a story about a particular social problem. This isn't automated stuff, I put a lot of thought into each individual page.

Basically, all of my pages looked like this when Panda hit:

2-3 paragraphs of unique introductory text, followed by a series of charts.

All of my charts are written in JavaScript, but about 3 weeks before Panda hit me, I added noscript functions to the pages. If you don't have JavaScript enabled, the pages write all of the data to HTML tables.

Many pages do have some kind of data overlap. For instance, I might show how one social issue impacts every state, so there's a table with a list of states with a numerical value for each state. This *could* make all of my pages appear to be very similar to all of my other pages (even though they're very different from a user's point of view).

Do you think that's a realistic cause? Or am I reaching here?

So far, my recovery efforts have been spent on increasing the 2-3 paragraphs of introductory text into much more. But I might try removing the noscript if that could be hurting me.