Panda Effect On Google News Traffic

[anand84]

Is anyone whose website is indexed on Google News noticed any drop in traffic since Panda? I have noticed significant drop in referral traffic from news.google.com from around the same time since Panda started devouring from my organic traffic.

PS: Haven't come across many discussions on this. Please apologize if this is already been discussed.

[tedster]

Since there are no answers so far, I can say I haven't heard any reports about Panda and Google News. My assumption has always been that Google News handles their own system without any reference to Google organic search.

I can see why you would be suspicious about a connection if the timing is coincidental - but of course, timing relationships are not necessarily cause and effect relationships.

[Andem]

anand84: I have not seen any noticable change in Google News traffic at all, while most of our main sites and topics have seen a drastic decrease in ranking since Panda 2.0.

[anand84]

Thanks Andem for the information. As Tedster has put it, I should probably be looking at the two sources independently.