Google Updates and SERP Changes - March 2011

[Whitey]

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I keep dropping mentions of this , but no takeup , so i did some digging, for clues to my theory Chrome's passing back intelligence that could influence this new algo and future changes :

New Chrome extension: block sites from Google's web search results
Monday, February 14, 2011 | 12:00 PM

Today the Google web search team launched a new Chrome extension to block low-quality sites from appearing in Google’s web search results. Read more in the post below, cross-posted from the Official Google Blog. - Ed


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I think user behaviour data is being underestimated in this thread. Each website will have an depth profile building that feeds into a potential quality assessment by Google. What say you ?

[edited by: tedster at 8:15 pm (utc) on Mar 15, 2011]

[walkman]

I'm sure we'll be seeing both those elements emerge with Panda. Well, maybe not the mellowing so much wink

You are right :). Within a month some sites started to come back on Florida. Panda is not as forgiving or is eating bamboo leaves instead of reassessing.

[zerillos]

What panda should do right now is take care of the mountain of intellectual property being stolen at the moment. That's what panda should do! Ever since panda hit, people understood that stealing, scraping and copying does pay a lot more than before. The scraper activity on my website increased between two and three times as much as before this algo hit.
I guess 90% of the scrapers do this kind of stuff to gain from google. If google wouldn't reward them as much as it does, then they wouldn't have an incentive to steal anymore.

[outland88]

What panda should do right now is take care of the mountain of intellectual property being stolen at the moment.

File that under the "Seventh of Never".

[crobb305]

Has anyone here had any luck with the scripts that place a link back to your site within the scraped content? I know those links could be manually removed, but for high-volume auto scrapers, maybe they wouldn't?

[Jane_Doe]

I don't think the scraped content is necessarily the cause of the issue. It may just be that your sites have a penalty which causes the scraped content to rank higher. Most of my sites have lots of scraped content out there, including ones that have had huge traffic increases since 2/24/11, but the only sites that were devalued in Panda had different issues - moldy content, too much boilerplate, thin content pages, reciprocal links pages (left over from a time when that actually worked), etc.

It might be a duplicate content issue, but the scrapers ranking higher may just be an associated factor and not necessarily a causative one.

[tedster]

In another thread [webmasterworld.com] two members who were originally affected by Panda reported a second drop yesterday (March 30).

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