Comments on: Panda, Panda, Panda

By: Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:44:09 +0000

Panda was definitely one of the waves of the “future”. Quality is being raised across the net, which I guess is a good thing in the long run. Great tips in this article!
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By: James Catter

James Catter — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:02:33 +0000

Hey Brian, i am a little SEO expert, but its misconception that after panada update google will rank the pages from their content, no its not like that, panada update was focus to rank sites as per the user experience, site structure. I think they have just changed 1 element of whole seo, every thing els is same, links to site, keyword relevancy etc.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:27:42 +0000

I wonder about this article… a lot of things here don’t seem to make any sense to me…

Is writer “Amanda King” is an SEO expert? She advises you should have at least 150 words on your homepage.. yet her own homepage has less than 100 words on it..

A lot of the advice she gives seems to be “jump on the bandwagon” kind of stuff… same advice everyone gives when they are trying to add enough words to make an article a few hundred words longer …. make your site sticky, add a blog, etc…. which is all unnecessary if you are running an ecommerce site anyway. Go to google and type in ANY buyer/shopper keyword or brand name search and 99.999 times out of 100 you will get eCommerce sites, price comparison sites or affiliate scraper sites, ALL with no “sticky” attributes to speak of, just products, pictures, prices and a shopping cart… and if you are lucky, there might even be some product descriptions..

Furthermore, some, actually almost all, sites have ONLY the large images on the homepage that Amanda recommends against… The Chanel.com website has a pr7 with a homepage that has a javascript image an 17 words on it… Crocs.com, Bmakowsky.com, etc…. I can go on forever.. all the same story. Other than collecting an email address to try and get more money from you later, why would they want a sticky, wordy site? Customers/visitors are there to browse and buy… anything else is a distraction in the buying process.

Amanda goes on to mention the Foner books site… I just don’t see how Foner books site is any different than Wikipedia.. aesthetically speaking. Wikipedia is ugly and boring,,, there is no blog, nothing sticky there.. nothing to email your friends about.

Anyway… I think freelance writing is Amanda’s best talent… giving SEO advice is a stretch…

By: Amanda King

Amanda King — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:17:04 +0000

Thanks, Nick – that’s a good way of putting it. Panda *definitely* is not as indiscriminate as the general public seem to think it is.
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By: Amanda King

Amanda King — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:16:10 +0000

Chris – much agreed! I don’t understand why webmasters (and companies) think that large graphics and flash (shudder) are a good idea.