Classifieds and Google Panda

[Sayers]

It seems Google's Panda update is targetting low quality sites with little unique content (I know there's more to it than that).  It makes sense that they may want to do this but what about classified sites.  They may use some scraped content as well as unique ads, and the ads may lack content as they rely on the users writing the ads.  However, they are helpful to the people that use classifieds.

Because of these factors, these sites are suffering with the release of the latest Panda update.

Any advice for classified sites and how they can combat the rankings drops???

[helpgoabroad]

Hello David,

What if your website allow people to post but they may have posted those ads on other websites also, would that affect an website ? What do you suggest ?

Regards

[DavidKauzlaric]

I think people need to stop fearing Panda. If you have high quality content and are unique, there is no reason that you will be affected. Remember, the sites affected mostly were sites that had tons of dupe content, scraped content, and horrible content.

Craigslist is a classifieds site that wasn't affected at all. If you don't scrape stuff and the content is original, you'll be fine.

Focus on being a brand, focus on user-generated content that is unique, and then just don't scrape!