List Your Top 3 SEO Strategies to Get Your Rankings Back
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Hey guys, can you list your top 3 strategies (what you've been focused on - SEO) to get your rankings back, or rank well in general, in Panda. Don't be vague saying link building...we all know that, what type of link building specifically, for example.
Thanks
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Ooo, Panda, that's caused a fair bit of trouble hasn't it!?
We did the following;
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Re-formatted and re-wrote a lot of old or 'rubbish' content. Including it's layout and the navigation process
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Culled any links which looked a bit spammy and tried to obtain links from site with higher MozRank and more credible links itself
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Updated all our business listings on the major listing sites such as Yell, Google Local, etc. And made sure our domain and addresses on the website corresponded with the business listings. With a view to increase the overall trust of the site.
Hope that helps!
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I had great success on a client side. In a nutshell, here is what I did:
1. Beefed up content on all pages across the site.
2. Zapped tens of thousands of worthless pages
3. Inserted the robots tag and set to "noindex, follow" on all of their pagination pages
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