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Thursday afternoon, the Google Farmer Update touched down and impacted a nice number of sites out there. In fact, Google claimed about 12% of the search results were changed. So webmasters and SEOs began going to the forums seeking support and I hope they are getting the support they need.
A Sphinn thread, asks if you were hit. I am curious, if you were impacted by the Google Farmer update.
If so, was it a positive or negative impact?
Please take my anonymous poll and have your friends take my poll as well.
Forum discussion at Sphinn.
Comments:
Michael Scheel
03/01/2011 02:01 pm
It was not rolled out in Germany yet so I still have to see. I run several vBulletin Forums with UGC so I am not yet sure if it will hit me or not
WDS
03/01/2011 04:00 pm
The great news for me is that my competitors were hit harder than me. For the last 6 months I've spent the time and money investing in "white hat" link building strategies instead of spammy black hat techniques that my competitors were doing after doing a little research. But since the update I've bumped up and they've bumped down. Doing things right the first time has really paid off so far.
Jaan Kanellis
03/01/2011 06:00 pm
Mike I dont feel UGC content sites will be affected.
Sarah J.
03/02/2011 12:50 am
I could say it affected the rank of our site -- not the traffic aspect. We used to rank 13th now we're way behiiiiiind the search results and the thing is, sites that copied our content, ranked higher than ours in SERPs. =( What should we do?
WebEnrich
03/02/2011 05:01 am
None of clients or my sites were effected ...
Michael Scheel
03/02/2011 02:17 pm
For example www.daniweb.com was hit very hard by the update which is a 100% UGC Forum with great content. So I am a little nervous :)
Dani Horowitz
03/02/2011 06:58 pm
Thank you for your support!! -- Dani of DaniWeb
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03/03/2011 04:03 am
Alot of content websites got affected Even websites like ezine articles are affected for many keywords
wholesale-restaurant-supplies
03/03/2011 06:09 am
Copy content websites won't stick for high position for too many days . It will be caught .
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05/10/2011 09:44 pm
Well, Panda update has hurt MAJORITY of the sites. Even those @ big writing communities like BrightHub.com About.com eHow.com ezinearticles.com have been cribbing about up to 90% drop in rankings - I'm wondering who the heck is really benefiting, if the big guns are falling apart?