Imagine the situation: you wake up one day, take a cup of coffee, and refresh your email to see what’s new. And right after that, you see this:
Imagine the situation: you wake up one day, take a cup of coffee, and refresh your email to see what’s new. And right after that, you see this:
Seems like the nightmare for webmasters, right?
If you’re already seen this, then your website got the manual penalty from Google. And this is a Google Panda penalty.
What should you do next? How to recover your website? What do you need to get Panda off from your website?
There is two news for you. The good news - you can recover your website and even get better ranking results after that. The bad news - this is not a regular “automatic” filter, so you can’t recover just for 48 hours, and you should take much more efforts to lift the penalties.
Let’s start from the basics: Google Panda is a major change to Google's search results ranking algorithm that was first released in February 2011. The change aimed to lower the rank of "low-quality sites" or "thin sites", in particular, "content farms", and return higher-quality sites near the top of the search results.
What does “thin content” or content with “no added value” means in the meaning of Google Webmasters Guidelines?
It means the content that Google tell to avoid on the websites. It includes the next types and techniques:
These points are the most common mistakes made by the webmasters, which are cause violation of the Google Guidelines and in most cases are the cause of the Panda manual penalty.
As usual, in the “spam problems” message you’ll see no explanations about what exactly was the reason for manual actions. You’ll see only “thin content” issue and from this time you should find this content, fix or delete it and send your website to the reconsideration.
We highly recommend you to pay attention for the next points when you’ll getting the manual actions off your website:
These are the main points you should consider before you’ll try to get Panda manual actions off your website.
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