Since Google has released its Panda Algorithm Update, Panda, the adorable animal of world, has become a nightmare for search engine marketers. Effected from Feb 24, 2011, the Google Panda Algorithm is all about removing spam from web, and intends to reduce rankings for low-quality or thin content websites that are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are hardly of any use. That really does look a great job on the part of Google, but sadly, some of the legitimate websites too with high-quality content have also been penalized by Panda.

How to learn you have been pandalized by Panda?

So, if you aren’t sure whether Panda has penalized you or not, just get logged into your account of Google Analytics and follow the below-given steps:

1. (1) From the advanced segments dropdown list, check “Non-paid Search Traffic & Uncheck “All Visitors.” This brings forth data only from organic search results.
2. (2) Since Panda had hit the selves on 24th, we fixed the Date Range from Feb 1st to March 31st to notice trends in visits after and before that date.
3. (3) Move to Traffic Sources and choose Search Engines for viewing just organic traffic from search engines.
4. (4) Now move your cursor down onto the source of “Google”, click it and view website visits from Google’s organic traffic:

Thus, the above image shows you that visits declined to 700 from Feb 23rd to 24th and it is yet to be recovered. In this way, you come to known how the Panda has hit or Kung fued your website.

How can you recover from Panda?

So what to do if your legitimate website has also been pandalized? Google says that if you think your website is legitimate with high-quality content, but has been panelized, widely assess varied aspects of your website. Though it’s not enough to recover from the loss, but this is the algorithm from Google that must be followed if you really want to know what went wrong with your site.

With a view to having a look at website diagnostics, you’ll have to get logged into your Google Webmaster Tools Account. On the left side, there is column of Diagnostics, click on it, and you will notice a dropdown of options, wherein you have to select the column of HTML suggestions, then on your right side, view the content issues that Google has found against your website.

Thus, the above image highlights that Google has discovered up to 294 pages including 3 content issues such as:

1. (1) Duplicate meta descriptions
2. (2) Short meta descriptions
3. (3) Duplicate titles

Move your cursor to any of these issues, click to view the specific pages that Google has flagged as an issue.

All of this information, if you want to, can also be exported by hitting on the link of “Download this table” The link lies at the bottom of the page. So, for boosting your ranking, you will have to fix content flagged as an issue by Google.

Besides, you are also advised to have a look at the performance of your websites in Webmaster Tools. Just click and select the column of Labs, and have a look at your Site performance on the left side.

As a result, it was found that the load time of our website was slow as compared to those 59 per cent websites. Since Panda mainly focuses on offering high-quality websites to users, a slow load time may bring down the ranking of your site. To find out whether it’s a site wide issue or just a problem for specific pages, you better keep on viewing load time for each page on your website.

Webmaster Tools from Google helps you better figure out from where you should start changing your website. Besides, spend some time in clicking through all the tabs in Webmaster Tools and start sorting out issues found by Google. If Google flags it as an issue, better fix them and please Google and Panda alike.

As of now, no instant fix is available for Panda recovery; however, learning the basics of SEO is going to help you a lot, but not fully.

So, do what Google Panda says, or get kung fued by it!

Source: http://www.seoboy.com/recovering-from-googles-panda-update/