Are you seeing changes in your sites today? Panda 2.2?
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I've heard rumblings of some Panda sites recovering in the last few days and wondered if the talked about Panda 2.2 has been rolled out.
My own site (which actually had a significant boost after Panda) has seen a significant increase in traffic today (started about noon EST yesterday) and a nice increase in Adsense revenue as well.
How are your sites doing?
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You know you typed that out load. Yet another political fail. #WeinerClub
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Yes unfortunately we took a significant drop in the SERPs under several of our main keywords, and we are getting outranked by some very low quality websites all of a sudden. We are still trying to figure out what change was in Panda 2.2.. Any ideas?
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Excellent! My plan is coming together!
#BuildTheirtrust #ThenStealTheirBabies
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I am not, but others appear to be http://twitter.com/#!/ReubenYau/status/79159856245903360
So I guess my site is doing fine.
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I have not seen anything myself or heard people yelling loudly in forums or out office windows.
However, I read Alan B (somebody I trust) talking about some Panda recovery here.
My sites have not seen much change since this panda stuff started.
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