Hit by Panda, what's the quickest way to remove content
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One of our client's sites got hit by panda/penguin. after careful investigation we found that the site had 6,900 pages indexed out of which about 300 are actual pages (pages with quality content and add value to the user). Needless to say we had to remove all those pages. Most of the thin pages were on the blog section of the site so we removed the WP which was on www.mysite.com/blog/. My question is how can i speed up the process for Google to realize that i have taken all those this pages down. i have fetched the homepage and all linked pages via "Fetch as Google Bot" on WMT. is there anything else i can do to speed this up???
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A recent article on Youmoz blog that has some great general ideas on this topic --> http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/identifying-link-penalties-in-2012
I know it doesn't go into many specific ways of rectifying the situation but it does have a lot of valuable information.
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I would send out a detailed report directly to Google through there submission option. I would also start writing great content for the site by creating a new blog and trying to get authoritative links to the site. It won't happen overnight but with some hard work it is possible in a reasonable time frame.
I hope this helps and good luck.
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