Turbulence hit the world wide web. Recently, few of my sites has been badly affected after Google injected Panda into them. I was earning a steady flow of income on one site over the period of last few months. I had put very hard work and the site was sitting on top when Panda hovered over it.
I am not earning anything from that site now. I am getting less than 100 hits per day through Yahoo and Bing. However, the page rank has not dropped and it stays as such. I think I was penalized.
According to experts, Google has done some modifications to the Search algorithm and it is code named “Google Panda”. Several web masters complain about decline of rankings and earnings on the Google’s WebMasters Forum.
I had corrected few mistakes and submitted the reconsideration request twice but google continued to send me the same old fashioned e-mail as shown below
Dear site owner or webmaster of URL,
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider URL for compliance with Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
We’ve reviewed your site and we believe that some or all of your pages still violate our quality guidelines.
In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from URL may not appear or may not rank as highly in Google’s search results, or may otherwise be considered to be less trustworthy than sites which follow the quality guidelines.
If you wish to be reconsidered again, please correct or remove all pages that are outside our quality guidelines. When such changes have been made, please visit URL and resubmit your site for reconsideration.
If you have additional questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.
Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team
I got an expert opinion from a source that I need to completely rebuild the site to get it reindexed again. I have decided to leave the site as such and monitor the revenues through Yahoo and Bing. I will rebuild the site with a new script if there is no improvement in earnings.
Google holds 95% of search market as of today. That’s why lot of web masters are facing several problems from them. But what to do? Let’s face it!
In order to avoid Google Panda effect on your website you should follow the following steps
(1) Write your own articles. Never use so called PLR articles as they are distributed among several people.
(2) Don’t stuff your articles with too many links. From my understanding you should only provide 3 links for each article.
(3) Never participate in any link building/exchange programs
(4) Say no to paid links
You will receive e-mails from various press people that they are willing to trade links for cash. You should not respond to them. Even if you respond you should not participate in any such schemes.
You can however display your site link as signature in e-mail, forums and other such avenues.
(5) Don’t create a directory based site using WordPress as you can’t moderate posts. You can make use of article directory scripts developed specially for this purpose.
I was running wordpress based article directory and I don’t think running a directory will give any problem as I have seen several such directories with duplicate content still indexed on Google.
(6) Don’t create any kind of automatically generated content which is so called “Auto Blogs”.
Once Google has deindexed your site there is no chance for a recovery as you don’t know what is the exact problem. Google never tell you what you should do to correct the mistake. If you do some guess work and if you are lucky then your site will be reindexed.
You should leave your site as such and it will grow slowly on its own. You should not employ any secret tactics to push the rankings especially speedy backlink creation.