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The recent Panda update (also known as Farmer update) at Google, which was designed to reduce the search engine rankings of low-quality sites, obviously had a major effect on tons of websites across all niches.
The traffic at content farms, like Mahalo and Suite101, plummeted while news sources and other trusted sites that churn out original content saw an increase in Google traffic. Some small websites and blogs, including this one, also saw a dip in organic traffic after the updated algorithm went live at Google.com.
Which sites were affected by Google Farmer /Panda update?
Sistrix earlier published a detailed spreadsheet [PDF] with a list of 300+ web domains that were possibly the biggest losers in this ongoing battle between content farms and Google.
However, the number of sites that have been devalued in this tweak could be much higher as Google itself has suggested that the change impacts 12% of search queries.
The traffic at content farms, like Mahalo and Suite101, plummeted while news sources and other trusted sites that churn out original content saw an increase in Google traffic. Some small websites and blogs, including this one, also saw a dip in organic traffic after the updated algorithm went live at Google.com.
Which sites were affected by Google Farmer /Panda update?
Sistrix earlier published a detailed spreadsheet [PDF] with a list of 300+ web domains that were possibly the biggest losers in this ongoing battle between content farms and Google.
However, the number of sites that have been devalued in this tweak could be much higher as Google itself has suggested that the change impacts 12% of search queries.
