Many webmasters have struggled with getting a site to rank as well as it previously had after it was impacted by Panda. I’ve been working on a HubPages subdomain with a team of people on a subdomain that saw a recovery when it was moved to a subdomain, a subsequent crash, a subsequent recovery and another crash.
These articles were initially very specific about Rolex watches. Many were combined and updated, several unpublished after the last crash. There was a total of about 50% reduction in pages. While I think the account once received traffic for terms that may be a little reaching. I think it does deserve to rank for how to spot a fake rolex.
The next step is to remove more content accept for the pages that answer the queries the page receives very well. I’ll ask for all pages to be unpublished 404′ed with a time on page of under 1.5 minutes. Then we will give it another few weeks.
Hi Paul,
Are you using a timer or event when exiting the page to get time on page? Because if not, you may be missing a bunch of other visits who land on the article, view it and leave which per GA would have a time on Page of 0 seconds because they do not click anywhere else.
BTW, love the video of JE singing Feeling It. I think we should think of preparing a duet where Dante sings the Stars Wars theme in the background while Julie belts out a melody.
MF