Panda update coming Friday or Monday

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  1. LisaMarie724 profile image60
    LisaMarie724posted 11 years ago

    My traffic has dropped in the last few days hopefully it recovers.

    1. Marcy Goodfleisch profile image80
      Marcy Goodfleischposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Mine has dropped, too.  I just noticed the 'update' time now says something about having information from two hours ago and earlier.  ???

    2. ytsenoh profile image59
      ytsenohposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      My traffic is back to where it was.  It was only down for two days.

  2. ytsenoh profile image59
    ytsenohposted 11 years ago

    I have lost 50% of my traffic and hope it returns.

  3. GinnyLee profile image85
    GinnyLeeposted 11 years ago

    I lost 2/3 of my traffic a week or so ago, but it bounced back within 2 days.  It is quite the roller coaster.

  4. Winterfate profile image70
    Winterfateposted 11 years ago

    To elaborate on what I posted a while ago: I have lost 30% of my traffic between this past Tuesday (March 19) and today (Saturday, March 23). Although, to be fair, this past Tuesday was a record-high for me in views, so I'm thinking it's closer to a 15% dip. Still the lowest point that I have been during the last 30 days. sad

    But, also as mentioned a while ago, if my traffic holds, I should recover by tomorrow. yikes

  5. prettydarkhorse profile image64
    prettydarkhorseposted 11 years ago

    March Madness?

    1. Marcy Goodfleisch profile image80
      Marcy Goodfleischposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Panda-Monium?

      1. prettydarkhorse profile image64
        prettydarkhorseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

        big_smile

        March Madness, Spring break, Holy Week what else. Carnival Roller Coaster

        1. Marcy Goodfleisch profile image80
          Marcy Goodfleischposted 11 years agoin reply to this

          big_smile

          House of Horrors?

          1. prettydarkhorse profile image64
            prettydarkhorseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            Armageddon, Big Bang perhaps or Killing Me Softly :-)

  6. intelpages profile image58
    intelpagesposted 11 years ago

    There's a slight upward trend in visits to my site (not hubs) which results to a better amount clickthrough for my adsense. No PR changes yet though.

  7. Dorsi profile image83
    Dorsiposted 11 years ago

    Down about 200 views a day for the last few days...sigh....

    1. Daughter Of Maat profile image91
      Daughter Of Maatposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Same here...

      1. Dorsi profile image83
        Dorsiposted 11 years agoin reply to this

        And I only had about 500-600 views a day as it was Marcy! Down from 5,000 a day before Panda and Penguin kicked my butt!!

  8. paradigmsearch profile image61
    paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

    Someone mentioned Spring Break as a cause. For those of us that have certain types of how-to and educational hubs (me, for example), I think this makes sense.

    1. Marcy Goodfleisch profile image80
      Marcy Goodfleischposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Was that the trend during other spring breaks?

      1. paradigmsearch profile image61
        paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

        Good idea! I went and checked. I was quasi-doomed beginning March 15, 2012. And total-doomed beginning March 23, 2012.

    2. janderson99 profile image51
      janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      http://s2.hubimg.com/u/7818005_f248.jpg

      1. paradigmsearch profile image61
        paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

        All the king's horses and all the king's men...

        1. janderson99 profile image51
          janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

          But there are Twin Popes!

          1. Marcy Goodfleisch profile image80
            Marcy Goodfleischposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            Janderson - did you get my message about the site that appears to have copied your recipe?  Check the thread here about 'Taking recipes from Hubs' - just wanted to give you a heads-up.

            1. janderson99 profile image51
              janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

              Yes, Thanks for that I will submit the DMCA ,
              Cheers,

  9. indian cooking profile image62
    indian cookingposted 11 years ago

    I did not notice any changes on my stats except the normal weekend fluctuations.

  10. paradigmsearch profile image61
    paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

    My usual Sunday traffic-rise has begun! I did not expect that this particular week. Yours truly is starting to perk right up! I may even celebrate and write something. big_smile

  11. Will Apse profile image89
    Will Apseposted 11 years ago

    Things are back to normal for me over here.

    I decided to finally put my squidoo stuff out of its misery, though. Things will probably never be back to normal over there. Random purges, page executions, nobody sure what the overlords want, the overlords not sure what they want... messy.

    Time for the peasants to load up their carts and move along.

    1. Barbara Kay profile image76
      Barbara Kayposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Will, I just got a page at Squidoo that said it was inadequate content and it is a long one. It was a money maker too. Then a couple that aren't making money are just fine with them. I don't get it. I'm not doing any more work over there for sure.

      1. Will Apse profile image89
        Will Apseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

        I'm not even giving squidoo a capital letter any more.

        1. PaulGoodman67 profile image97
          PaulGoodman67posted 11 years agoin reply to this

          I have managed to save my best lenses, which is a relief, despite the falling traffic over there and the excess of official warnings. Rather than tell you specifics, such as there's a 50 words per Amazon capsule and the filters will penalize you if you don't abide, Squidoo instead gives you general advice on writing an article and lets the filters roam free (along with a 5 day deadline before a third of all your work is locked in my case!).  There's also a panicky atmosphere there at present.  It's messy, like Will says.  I think I may have survived though.

          Generally I like both HP and Squidoo nowadays, although HP is definitely back in the ascendancy.  HP is a roller coaster, whereas Squidoo is consistent - consistently good, or consistently bad.  They will recover, I'm sure. 

          If ever both HP and Squidoo start doing well at the same time, I will be laughing!  smile

          1. Will Apse profile image89
            Will Apseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            To me the difference between Squidoo and HP is that HP has genuinely grasped the fact that quality matters. HP has also developed a system to measure quality which seems to work (despite your mTurk experiences, lol).

            This was something I was doubtful about until Paul Edmondson's recent post about the correlation they are finding between quality (as they are measuring it) and traffic. Quite an achievement given the numbers involved.

            They are even using the same quality measures to assess other sites (I would guess sites like eHow). A little convergence with eHow would be nice, traffic-wise.

            Squidoo, on the other hand, have missed the boat on quality control and now they are scrambling for quick fixes, upsetting far too many people in the process.

            Obviously, I hope Squidoo survives but I can't see them prospering until they get a lot more serious about the long term issues.

            1. PaulGoodman67 profile image97
              PaulGoodman67posted 11 years agoin reply to this

              Yes, I was surprised by how decent the traffic was over there at Squidoo, given how slack they seemed to be (compared to how strict HP have become, anyway).  Now Google have hit them hard.

              I don't think the problems stem so much from general users, or even the writers who are more particularly focused on earnings.  Rather, it's the spinners who open multiple accounts and create low quality pages on an industrial scale.  I am not sure how you can stop that, unless you delay the indexing of new pages whilst you vet the new material, like HP does.

              Actually, Squidoo do delay indexing, come to think of it, but their vetting seems to have been less rigorous.  There is software out there for counting words and calculating keyword density, but sophisticated spinning seems difficult to detect, unless you have a human element.

              It's healthy that HP and Squidoo take different approaches to the same problems, however.  It gives you choices as a writer and keeps everyone (HP, Squidoo, and Google) on their toes!  smile

              1. Marcy Goodfleisch profile image80
                Marcy Goodfleischposted 11 years agoin reply to this

                Having just found copied work at Squidoo, I'm not impressed with who they let in their door. A hub of mine, and another (a recipe) by a good writer here were stolen.  And, after nosing around, I discovered the same person has an account here.  No telling how many other hubs were stolen and used in different accounts over there.

  12. AMFredenburg profile image73
    AMFredenburgposted 11 years ago

    The word "panda" used to have such a fuzzy, warm feeling....

 
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