2. Initially launched in 2011 to target "content
farming", the Google panda update
reduces the ranking of low-quality
content websites and provide improved
rankings for high quality sites.
It has been frequently cited as an update
from which it is hard to recover.
INTRODUCTION
9. Abandoning content farming practices
Overhauling website content for quality,
usefulness, relevance, trustworthiness and
authority
Revising the ad/content or affiliate/content ratio so
that pages are not dominated by ads or affiliate
links
Ensuring that the content of a given page is a
relevant match to a user’s query
Removing or overhauling duplicate content
Careful vetting and editing of user-generated
content and ensuring that it is original, error-free
and useful to readers, where applicable
Using the Robots noindex,nofollow command to
block the indexing of duplicate or near-duplicate
internal website content or other problematic
elements
"Take a fresh look and basically ask
yourself, ‘How compelling is my
site?’ We’re looking for high quality.
We’re looking for something where
you land on it, you’re really happy,
the sort of thing where you wanna
tell your friends about it and come
back to it, bookmark it. It’s just
incredibly useful."
HOW TO RECOVER FROM
PANDA?
~Google's Matt Cutts in 2012
10. FUN
FACTS
It was named not after
the animal, but a
Google engineer named
Naveen Panda, who
was the key person who
came up with the
breakthrough.
The concept of E-A-T
(Expertise,
Authoritativeness,
Trustworthiness)
can be originated from
content farming
problem.
Technically, Panda
no longer exists.
That's because
Panda evolved into a
new algorithm called
Coati some time
later.
