Panda 4.1 - Regained rankings by making changes on my site

[followuk]

So thought I would share this with others as it 'might' help.

So I got around 40 pages, all of them have taken a dive in rankings so on average from Pg1/2 to Pg5/6.

I took one page and started working on content upgrades, I had around 50 words of boiler plate content above the fold and 750 words of unique content way down the page so maybe 600px below the fold before you hit it.

I removed the boiler plate content and produced 75 words of unique content to replace it, I shuffled things around and managed to get the 750 words maybe 250px below the fold then chucked another 100 unique words into the mix.

Fetched the page in GWMT's and resubmitted the URL - hour later that page alone, the page I upgraded had recovered its rankings back to the original position before Panda 4.1 hit.

Will the rankings for this page drop back down again, not sure but interesting this page was Pg6/7 since the 23rd and doing the above within an hour regained rankings back to Pg2 middle.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Will the rankings for this page drop back down again

This is impossible to say I'm afraid. They could drop, or the changes may have satisfied Google and you will stay where you are.

Try making similar changes to the other pages and see if you can replicate your success. Unique content is always great, so as an exercise, it is a win-win anyway.

-Andy

[followuk]

Thanks Andy,

I'm in the process of getting the copywriter to produce unique content for the other pages so will post the outcome on here once those pages have been resubmitted also.

[CommT]

Thank you for sharing this. I haven't been hit by Panda 4.1, but as you say, this info might help someone. Good for you for being so giving! I salute you!

[vijayvasu]

hey thanks for sharing, I have a site that I need to work on one of these days, and this data will help for sure.

Vijay

[followuk]

Ok so an update.

Regained rankings for that page I upgraded have remained stable and for some queries better position.

Most importantly I applied the same method/process to 2 other pages and they also regained position - ive put these pages on monitor, ill give it a week to make sure they stay stable then roll out the upgrade to the other 35ish pages.

[Chris661]

Curious what you meant by "Boiler Plate"? Was this content duplicated elsewhere on your site or the web?

Thanks for posting your experiences.

[followuk]

Duplicate on my site, well almost I replaced a few words for each page. It wasn't the main content just an intro paragraph but it was the highest piece of content on the page.

I've basically put it down to poor/thin content above the fold, which I replaced with unique better content which is more relevant to the subject of the page.

[Chris661]

Interesting. I didn't know position was an SEO factor for content but can see it makes sense.

Thanks again for sharing!