Another bloody post…Panda and Google
Looks like the boys and girls at Searchmetrics have messed up:
This post that has gone everywhere on the web
http://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2011/04/12/googles-panda-update-rolls-out-to-uk/
States that www.discountvouchers.co.uk has been wiped out by google, well its just not true and here is an image of our organic traffic from Google Analytics to show otherwise:
Seems like Searchmetrics, in a rush to get link love have made a PR disaster…..great links guys, but was it worth it? Makes me wonder what value there is in this data when it has so little effect on a sites traffic.
Anyway here are some independent ranking reports for the voucher sector:
And also the hitwise report
Seems like the guys ate TechWatch are a bit miffed too
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/04/15/searchmetrics-com-are-they-just-making-it-up/comment-page-1/
Doug
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Besides, Google still haven’t got it right.
I run a popular community site with 10,000 members yet a blog that has about 10 generic posts that contribute very little still ranks above.
And why, my guess is because it has the exact keyword domain match.
Sort it out Google!