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We definitely saw an impact at www.tradeking.com.  However, the impact (negative) was delayed and appears to be isolated to a few head ("primary") non-branded keywords.  We saw traffic begin to decline on these keywords on March 3rd.  So, it seems like we were impacted more by post-Panda "tweaks" than by the Panda update.

Moreover, our Google ranking for one of these primiary keywords dropped from 5th to 11th (now 12th) on March 3.  Even more interesting:  said keyword had held steady at 5 or 6 since the Vince update.  Prior to the Vince update, our ranking for that keyword had been around 8 or 9 (with some fluctuation).  Effectively, our Vince gains have been lost (for this keyword) and we've lost a few more positions on top of that. Could that be a clue?

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Thanks David - good to know.  We haven't finalized the plans, but my intention was to only use this for 1 day max.

Hello - Our company will soon be launching a major product enhancement and we have discussed using a splash page when a visitor hits our homepage to promote the launch.  I'm thinking something similar to what Apple did on Apple.com to announce addition of The Beatles catalog ot iTunes.  I've never actually implemented anything like this before and wanted to get feedback from the community on how best to handle this from an SEO perspective.

Thanks,

Jason

We definitely saw an impact at www.tradeking.com.  However, the impact (negative) was delayed and appears to be isolated to a few head ("primary") non-branded keywords.  We saw traffic begin to decline on these keywords on March 3rd.  So, it seems like we were impacted more by post-Panda "tweaks" than by the Panda update.

Moreover, our Google ranking for one of these primiary keywords dropped from 5th to 11th (now 12th) on March 3.  Even more interesting:  said keyword had held steady at 5 or 6 since the Vince update.  Prior to the Vince update, our ranking for that keyword had been around 8 or 9 (with some fluctuation).  Effectively, our Vince gains have been lost (for this keyword) and we've lost a few more positions on top of that. Could that be a clue?

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