Panda Recovery ETA?

[RohitPalit]

I have a blog hit by Panda in 2011 and 2012. The thing is, I've no-indexed around 1000 posts out of 11xx. No-indexed tags and archives. But, Google was taking a very long time to remove them from their indexes. So, I had to do a manual removal from Google WMT. Removed /2011/ and /2013/ as directories, and removed /pages/ (this is an WordPress site) so all of them are now no longer in their index.

It was a smartphone blog started in 2011 which I turned into an tech blog on a new domain (I let the old PR3 DA 30+ domain expire and now someone's asking me $200 if I am to get it).

I had a team when it was a smartphone blog. Our articles had been featured on places like Engadget, PhoneArena, UberGizmo etc. So, with the loss of the domain, we've lost quite a few important backlinks as well.

Also, Authorship doesn't work for the site. The Rich Snippets testing tool says everything's all right, but it never really works / shows up on SERPs. I fear it's because of a penalty. It seems to me like no one has ever thought about a penalty that affects Authorship.

So, now you know the problem, and the things I did in order to fix it, could you tell me if:

1. Google will lift the penalty whenever they wish. (And an ETA?)
2. They'll lift it when the next major algorithmic update occurs. (I made the changes on September 28th) But I don't see how this is a possibility since Panda has now been integrated into the core algorithm.
3. Anything else.

Thanks in advance everyone!

[RohitPalit]

Hey Gary,

I'm not worried about the main content on the site.

At the moment Google is like removing 10 URLs per day from their index. The cached copies are creating issues, I think. Forgot putting 'noarchive'. Surprisingly, also the crawl stats show that the average crawl rate decreased. I placed the noindex,follow tags on September 28th and till now Google merely removed 80-90 URLs from their index solely based on that (without manual intervention).

[gazzerman1]

Using the WMT tool to remove bulk pages like that is the best way for a speedy recovery, so good decision on that one.

Panda actually runs about once a month right now, so I would expect to wait around 4 weeks before the changes are integrated and maybe a few weeks more for the content existing on the site to be re-crawled and calculated to see where your site should be placed.

Also if your main content that exists on the site is not the best of quality then you may need to do some work there.