BREAKING: Google launches traffic War on keyword domains with Panda 2.0

Google launches war on keyword-driven domains with Panda 2.0

Google has done the unthinkable: it’s penalizing keyword-rich domains and web sites, that took months of painstakingly hard work to reach the upper tier pages of the world’s dominant search engine!

Here’s the analysis of the current situation from a domainer investor who experiences dramatic changes in his keyword-driven traffic:

I just got back from vacation in time to witness a wholesale slaughter of my Google search traffic. I’m looking at about 50% traffic losses across every keyword domain driven website that I manage (about 15 months worth of traffic growth).

I was mostly out of the loop on Google’s Panda 1.0 update which launched in late March, I believe.

Google claimed that the major purpose of that update was to target low quality content farms. That update came and went without causing so much as a ripple in my search traffic. I shrugged it all off and went about my business. I did read that ezinearticles.com, mahalo.com, and other mega-content farms lost upwards of 80% of their Google search traffic. I thought that was the end of it.

On April 11, 9:00am PST, my traffic fell through the floor.

I saw right away that it was Google ranking related so I hit every English webmaster forum out there to find out what had just happened. At the precise moment that my traffic tanked Google claims to have integrated its Panda update with its international English global search index.

What they didn’t mention initially, and what people are just now finding out, is that they simultaneously launched a new Panda update that affects the US results as well. This earth-shattering update is now being referred to as Google Panda 2.0.

Based on what I’ve read and what I’ve seen in my own traffic stats, this is a Google update unlike anything else that they’ve ever launched.

All my keyword driven domains lost almost all of their prominent search rankings (with just several odd exceptions). I’ve spoken with several other keyword domain driven webmasters and they have experienced the exact same level of traffic drop or more (in some cases 80%). This also seems to be reflected in posts at WebmasterWorld and various other places across the web.

Thus far, Google is silent on Panda 2.0 and uncharacteristically so. Usually they’re happy to mingle post-updates with the historically pro-Google folks over at WebmasterWorld, but not this time it would seem. This update has left nothing short of a tsunami of digital destruction in its wake.

The number of people claiming to have been put out of business by this is staggering. Based on what I’m seeing, reading, and what Matt Cutts is on record saying, I can only conclude that this update turned the nob down on domain based keyword weight.

None of my websites are penalized and the volume of traffic loss is perfectly uniform across the board. I’m sure many other factors are involved as well, but that stand out factor clearly seems to be domain keyword weight related. Time will tell what just happen for sure, or perhaps not – given Google’s record on transparency.

Simply Wow! Is Google now “not evil” as they have proclaimed themselves to be?

Where is the outrage from the pillars of the domain community, or are they fast asleep?

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