Google: Ask Yourself These 23 Questions if Panda Impacted Your Website
Google's Amit Singhal has posted what he calls "guidance" to webmasters in the form of 24 questions you should ask yourself as you go about recovering and determining "quality."
Google's Amit Singhal has posted what he calls "guidance" to webmasters in the form of 24 questions you should ask yourself as you go about recovering and determining "quality."
Google has had very little to say to hurting webmasters who saw their rankings tank overnight due to Google’s rollout of the Panda Update. Many of these webmasters have depended on traffic from Google to pay mortgages and feed their families — and many sites were forced to lay off staff and no doubt others have just shut down.
Previously, beyond telling webmasters to identify and remove (or improve) low-quality or “shallow” content, Google hasn’t had much to say. Until today, at least. In a new blog post on Google Webmaster Central, Google’s Amit Singhal has posted what he calls “guidance” to webmasters in the form of 24 questions you should ask yourself as you go about recovering and determining “quality.”
The questions:
Singhal also notes that since Panda rolled out, Google has rolled out more than a dozen additional tweaks. But that doesn’t matter to a few people who have already commented on Singhal’s post, noting a very obvious flaw that Google still hasn’t conquered: scrapers are outranking the original content in many cases. It is pretty amazing that for all the geniuses Google employs, they can’t figure out how to determine the originator of the exact same content.
We’ll dig more into this post and its implications next week, and see if it jives with what we’ve reported, as well as what others elsewhere around the web have theorized about in recent weeks. Below is a list of our previous coverage on Panda up until now.
What do you think of these questions and Google’s response to Panda thus far? What else does Google need to fix. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.