Pandalized: Sites Negatively Impacted by Google's Panda Update

Google has given precise and clear signals of what to do with other releases from other teams, the Google Panda team is not directly responsible for rankings. The information is purposefully fragmented among the different releses, blogs etc.. of different teams. Because that is the way Google is structured, works and also because they want to avoid giving stupid people too much power by providing an easy "how-to" guide to rankings.

You need to be a pro. marketer and know a bit about programming to keep up with Google's recommendations. I have done this, I simply do not want to share this information here where marketers read and make thousands or millions off it, but I would be glad to share that information with small site owners privately for free, one on one. No marketing orgies allowed! :)

Simply stated, if you would for the next month study everything that Google has released the last couple of years (80+ hour work wweks) you would realize where they are going in the next couple of years not only theoritically, which is very useful, but also with practical steps in how to become a friend of Google.

The reason that Google does not produce a even more straightforward guide to SERP / SEO field than they do right now (to lazy to link to it, because it is not that important right now) is that most marketing people are dumb and simply want to build an automatic system that generates money for them without hiring someone or fixing stuff themselves. I think they, meaning Google, consciously want to keep the human element alive and active in search engine marketing right now, therefore you saw Panda, you saw Google+ and you will see a lot of other things down the road as well.

You have to understand that Google sees itself as educating, if not enlightening marketers with their activites as well.

It might surprise you, but most marketers are ignorant of how their field really works. Having attended tons of seminars and a few conferences to boot, they can not even grasp simple technological innovations like HTML5 Video, even if it is explained to them nice and clearly many, many times.

So from Google's stand point, they want to make this learninge xperience slow, step by step, and like a puzzle for a child.

(I am leaving out all the criticism of Google that I have and portraying it in a neutral light for now)

I'll take any help I can get. It's been half a year with no progress. My site is in my profile, and there's a link to my e-mail on the right hand sidebar of my site under my picture.

Ah .. I got it. telnet in, then print some garbage, causing the server to respond with an error. This comes from the main Apache instance, rather than the individual virtualhost, and that has the hostname you mentioned. Clever.

Human-powered Q&A/search. You ask a question, a human gets paid a pittance to answer it. They are focused on mobile now (text a question, get a text back with an answer). Sometimes their answers show up in search results (I've encountered them), and they're usually just a few words and not very useful.

Good question, I played the Devil's Advocate inside my mind. Here is what I get as return / output: All the traditional elements of marketing are different:

a) Is the target market specific?

Yes for q. & s., no for c.c.

b) Is the target market pro. / high-end users with high sense of fidelity to the topic / site / brand or casual consumers?

Yes for q. & s., no for c.c.

c) Does the target audience return to said sites regularly, participate in a community (with hierarchies, badges, comments and replies etc..)?

Yes for q. & s., no for c.c.

d) Do the specific topics discussed get relevant links from blogs, tuts sites etc.. from similiar fields

Yes for q. & s., no for c.c.

This is simply the tip of the iceberg.