Are the pages on your website protected from Google’s Panda smack down?
I’ve written before about how a lot of shifts occurred on the web after Google’s latest search engine algorithm tweak. Sites that use to dominate the search engines were hurt pretty badly by what is fondly known in the seo world as Google’s “PANDA” updates.
The point of Google’s Panda update? To take a serious chunk out of duplicate content on the web and unnatural link building. Now if you follow any of my work at all, then I know that duplicate content isn’t even an issue you for you – right:) Great! But you do have to make sure that no one has ripped you off and scraped some of your content and published it to some junky adsense blog.
So this is what I need you to ask yourself:
Do my articles/pages contain unique, detailed, grammatically-correct content that is not plagiarized or reprinted elsewhere?
Not so sure? Then I’d like you to occasionally run some of your more popular articles on your site (ones that were heavily shared in social media or commented on) through a duplicate content tool like Copyscape and make sure that your content is unique and Panda Strong!
While I would not recommend doing this for every article you publish, because who has the time for that, just running one of your more stronger articles every once in a while will give you sense of whether or not your content is being swiped and published, thereby possibly indirectly affecting your ranking with Google. I talk a lot more in detail about how to protect your content in my article marketing program Articology, but implementing today’s tip will give you a good head start.
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Hi Lisa,
I think the Panda update has given some smaller sites and even a few of the bigger sites (like ezinearticles for example) a big shake up. As you say, if we carry out white hat strategies that add value to the web and it’s users, we will be Panda protected. I say – keep bringing on anything that will help get rid of spammers and scraper sites…
Regards
Catherine