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Google Panda 2.5 Update: eHow & YouTube.com Win: Here Is the List Of The Winners & Losers

October 4, 2011 by Michael Berkens

Google made a rather big update to Panda search metrics which is being called Panda 2.5 last Thursday.

Searchmetrics.com listed the biggest winners and losers on it blog a couple of days ago.

eHow owned by Demand Media, a company we cover in our domain name Parking Stock Index, was actually one of just a handful of winners listed as content farms by SearchMetrics.com although LiveStrong.com another Demand Media Property was a loser.

Here are some of the biggest losers:

SEO Visibility SEO Visibility Lost Lost in %
25.09.2011 02.10.2011
consumeraffairs.com
447.586
100.513 -347.073 -78%
starpulse.com
552.925
213.059 -339.866 -61%
aceshowbiz.com
162.759
11.379 -151.380 -93%
savings.com
197.936
48.346 -149.590 -76%
bettermedicine.com
173.596
54.262 -119.334 -69%
prnewswire.com
130.870
22.637 -108.233 -83%
faqs.org
124.618
19.202 -105.416 -85%
thehollywoodgossip.com
155.522
65.490 -90.032 -58%
medicalnewstoday.com
123.707
42.661 -81.046 -66%
hollyscoop.com
98.848
24.146 -74.702 -76%
inemablend.com
89.854
15.441 -74.413 -83%
killerstartups.com
148.875
75.429 -73.446 -49%
ohinternet.com
101.178
33.595 -67.583 -67%
thecarconnection.com
111.587
49.174 -62.413 -56%
entrepreneur.com
80.166
25.460 -54.706 -68%
motortrend.com
163.390
113.390 -50.000 -31%
cafemom.com
72.306
25.129 -47.177 -65%
automobilemag.com
61.558
18.747 -42.811 -70%
thenextweb.com
87.048
45.118 -41.930 -48%
technorati.com
55.642
15.190 -40.452 -73%
today.com
62.227
26.278 -35.949 -58%
gamepro.com
52.015
18.010 -34.005 -65%
actressarchives.com
54.307
20.504 -33.803 -62%
nowpublic.com
60.028
27.675 -32.353 -54%
1-coupons.com
80.590
50.694 -29.896 -37%
businesswire.com
42.777
13.468 -29.309 -69%

 

Here are some of the biggest winners:

 

These are the winners of the Panda 2.5 update:

Domain SEO Visibility SEO Visibility Win Win in %
25.09.2011 02.10.2011
youtube.com
5.258.325
5.787.520 529.195 10%
tv.com
738.030
924.621 186.591 25%
ign.com
586.955
711.785 124.830 21%
last.fm
1.218.625
1.320.032 101.407 8%
zappos.com
324.608
417.576 92.968 29%
metacafe.com
248.953
329.781 80.828 32%
android.com
783.956
861.373 77.417 10%
perezhilton.com
572.825
643.087 70.262 12%
hubpages.com
692.107
761.589 69.482 10%
aol.com
958.356
1.027.422 69.066 7%
washingtonpost.com
767.931
835.620 67.689 9%
foxnews.com
564.718
631.089 66.371 12%
usmagazine.com
198.156
262.246 64.090 32%
wsj.com
646.698
708.610 61.912 10%

In terms of “content farms” here are the biggest losers in terms of percentage were:

 

Domain OPI_today OPI_last Difference %
blippr.com 11,024 529,970 -518,946 -97.9%
suite101.com 19,874 263,529 -243,655 -92.5%
tradekey.com 2,970 38,237 -35,267 -92.2%
associatedcontent.com 23,687 281,343 -257,656 -91.6%
articlesbase.com 13,492 157,958 -144,466 -91.5%
helium.com 7,170 83,184 -76,014 -91.4%
faqs.org 15,971 140,951 -124,980 -88.7%
freedownloadscenter.com 23,216 192,128 -168,912 -87.9%
mahalo.com 56,305 442,563 -386,258 -87.3%
allbusiness.com 2,694 19,995 -17,301 -86.5%
ezinearticles.com 35,691 259,516 -223,825 -86.2%
essortment.com 13,507 93,993 -80,486 -85.6%
americantowns.com 6,109 38,783 -32,674 -84.2%
findarticles.com 11,648 70,404 -58,756 -83.5%
howtodothings.com 10,605 62,372 -51,767 -83.0%
lovetoknow.com 30,289 157,037 -126,748 -80.7%
hubpages.com 122,796 618,406 -495,610 -80.1%
wisegeek.com 113,436 489,014 -375,578 -76.8%
buzzle.com 78,206 335,304 -257,098 -76.7%
doityourself.com 8,069 33,231 -25,162 -75.7%
merchantcircle.com 20,195 83,133 -62,938 -75.7%
business.com 10,961 42,877 -31,916 -74.4%
thefind.com 13,107 46,769 -33,662 -72.0%
trails.com 9,607 32,385 -22,778 -70.3%

The biggest Losers in terms of viability of content farms were:

Domain OPI_today OPI_last Difference %
answerbag.com 662,274 1,673,406 -1,011,132 -60.4%
answers.com 682,274 1,673,410 -991,136 -59.2%
blippr.com 11,024 529,970 -518,946 -97.9%
hubpages.com 122,796 618,406 -495,610 -80.1%
about.com 3,199,369 3,689,144 -489,775 -13.3%
mahalo.com 56,305 442,563 -386,258 -87.3%
wisegeek.com 113,436 489,014 -375,578 -76.8%
associatedcontent.com 23,687 281,343 -257,656 -91.6%
buzzle.com 78,206 335,304 -257,098 -76.7%
suite101.com 19,874 263,529 -243,655 -92.5%
ezinearticles.com 35,691 259,516 -223,825 -86.2%
freedownloadscenter.com 23,216 192,128 -168,912 -87.9%
articlesbase.com 13,492 157,958 -144,466 -91.5%
lovetoknow.com 30,289 157,037 -126,748 -80.7%
faqs.org 15,971 140,951 -124,980 -88.7%
examiner.com 43,101 142,296 -99,195 -69.7%
essortment.com 13,507 93,993 -80,486 -85.6%
helium.com 7,170 83,184 -76,014 -91.4%
merchantcircle.com 20,195 83,133 -62,938 -75.7%
ask-leo.com 57,140 117,708 -60,568 -51.5%
findarticles.com 11,648 70,404 -58.756 -83.5%
livestrong.com 34,554 87,086 -52,532 -60.3%
howtodothings.com 10,605 62,372 -51,767 -83.0%
tradekey.com 2,970 38,237 -35,267 -92.2%

 And finally the Winners of the “content Farms” were:

Domain OPI_today OPI_last Difference %
wikihow.com 455,031 254,087 200,944 79.1%
answers.yahoo.com 524,056 406,523 117,533 28.9%
ehow.com 944,950 831,961 112,989 13.6%
howstuffworks.com 666,073 574,523 91,550 15.9%
huffingtonpost.com 1,262,562 1,173,229 89,333 7.6%
facebook.com 3,157,406 3,094,804 62,602 2.0%
instructables.com 80,142 68,685 11,457 16.7%

Filed Under: Publicly Traded Domain Co, Search/SEO

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Beach Market says

    October 4, 2011 at 11:14 am

    That’s why relying on search engines for traffic is not a viable business strategy. The web is a joke.

  2. Jeff says

    October 4, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Funny how Youtube.com and Android.com, both owned by Google, are big winners in the Google update. Must just be a total coincidence.

  3. [ some of the best domains around ] says

    October 4, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    very interesting

    but where are TechCrunch and Mashable?

  4. Muscle Sprouts says

    October 4, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    I agree totally with Beach Market.

  5. Phil says

    October 4, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Websites that have google ads have improved ranking. Google has interest in improving their chances of CPC profit. Nobody cares about junk content or the user. It’s mooooney!!!
    howstuffworks.com google ads
    ehow.com google ads
    hubpages.com google ads
    …………………..
    It doesn’t matter to google if they don’t own the website when they own the ad space.

  6. Troy says

    October 4, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    Why all the hatred for ehow.com from people? They might not be a good source of in-depth content, but when you are looking for an overview on a subject they typically provide good content.

    I noticed that all the “content farm winners” are sites that I seem to visit somewhat regularly when asking questions online. They have good content and good answers.

    I think Google did a good job with Panda. At least according to the list above.

  7. 1010001 says

    October 4, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    troy it’s because they rely on serp ranking to be read. and they need to game the system heavily to achieve ranking. they do not rely on the quality of their “content”.

    beachmarket +1

    but how does on define “content farm”? wsj, forbes, etc. are not content farms? they hire writers who spew out copy. they’re better than most, but all quality is in decline. that’s obvious.

    serps is a silly way to evaluate quality. but that’s what users use. whatever is “popular” they assume is of reasonable quality. not true. seo people are gaming the serps.

    the whole system is dysfunctional.

    sites try to “protect” their content from any reasonable indexing scheme i.e. they make their content more difficult to search. can a user search for content across a large number of sites easily? no. because sites do not cooperate to make that possible.

    so search engines compensate for this… they crawl all possible sites aggressively and cache the entire lot. some sites get upset. others acquiesce. others are desperate to be crawled. seo customers. but all sites recognise the search engine beats their own indexing system every time.

    sites do not make it easy to scan their content quickly. hence people use search engines. so maybe the sites make it easier for search engines to scan their content. but still, they don’t do this for users. and then they get upset because the search engine is unfair or too powerful.

    dumb and dumber.

  8. David Williams says

    October 5, 2011 at 2:15 am

    I am surprised to see ehow.com having a win from it. I had also wondered if having Google ads on your site was a positive or negative. I think if they’re too spammy then it can be a negative to the SE’s, even Google. However I think if you have a natural amount and the competition has other branded ads then I think it would help in Google. Not sure really though.

  9. The economics of it says

    October 21, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    The economics and money of it, including space for ads (unless it is excessive) has nothing to do with Panda as google keeps the search pure and protected. Panda is about user experience. If you try to read into why a wesbite went up or down look at end user behavior patterns. If you can get users to comeback and stay on your site you are in.

  10. Jenna Williams says

    November 22, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    It seems like Google wants content to be more editorial. Whenever you researched how to do anything on the internet last year before Panda, you would get top pages full of 300 to 500-word articles from content farms, all sharing the same information. So basically, one article written 20 times.


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