Yes, Google Panda has affected many webpages accross the globe. One could say it has impacted the web like the Manhattan Project the Pacific War during the WWII.

Google Panda – New Trends in Searching the Web

So what really happened? Well, Google decided to bring a better experience for the end-user and provide more accurate and better results to the people surfing and searching the web. Nobody (but them) knows the exact thing they did with their algorithm but it surely did influence many, many web marketers and I don’t think they were ready for such a change. The change that “the world” knows is that they eliminated “farm sites”. Basically the farm sites are pages that are usually a duplicate of an existing web page and host various topics (Yahoo Answers should be most affected, even though I don’t see any negative change). So, if you had a page like that you should have been affected.

Google Dropped My Page – I Lost 60% – 90% of Traffic Over Night

Well, I didn’t and I still got banned in terms of my traffic being down about 60%-90% which of course is major shift in my revenue. I tried several methods to bring my traffic up, but so far no success. I followed other peoples instructions and suggestions but so far nothing worked. I had relatively unique and useful content, but this seamed not to work as Google says they hate Duplicate content (my words, not theirs!). So, to me it seams they are playing a game… To be honest with you, I do not have a Facebook, Twitter or YouTube type of site in terms of being innovative, new and “alone” on the market. I do niche marketing and I’ve found a keyword I though it was great, prosperous. google panda, SEO, search engine, trafficThe problem was these sites of mine in this niche marked worked well. And as soon as it worked really, really well, Google dropped me overnight. It looked like they don’t want to give me a break to make an honest buck… Sounds like your story????

What To Do?

What I guess works the best is to clean up your site. Get rid of duplicate content (even though some people believe there is nothing like “duplicate” content and it wouldn’t hurt you). Start with on-site and off-site SEO. Get yourself some backlinks from credible sites… If you’re in a high competative market this is even more important. If not, a bit less, but necessary in any case.

I wish you good luck and hope you make it.