Did anyone else notice all their keyword rankings go down after the last Panda refresh on January 17th 2013?

[DTOSI]

Even before January 17th I noticed my keyword ranking slowly going from the top 3 to around 8, 9 and 10.  Then between January 15 and January 30th, (SEO MOZ) is not showing the exact date) they all went down to the second page and worse.

The rankings dropped for an e-commerce website petsspark.com. They sell a tear stain removal product which is a pretty competitive market. After January i started to notice that Google was starting to rank blogs, forums, overal product review websites and of course amazon, better than me and my competitors.

Was anyone else effected by the panda refresh or have any idea what may have gone wrong?

Please help

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[Zachary_Russell]

Hello,

I've seen a similar thing. My client inconstantly ranked #1 for traffic cones for over a year, then this last panda update we got put behind by a big brand. Not completely sure why because the brand has almost no unique content on the page. Thanks google!

[KristyFord]

Hi, all...

I have seen this on my website, too. Terms for which we consistently showed on page 1 now place us on page 3 or beyond. Instead, we are getting amazon, target, walmart and other big players who don't even sell what we are offering. It's frustrating. Any solutions? All I can think to do is constantly create new content with links and try to place it outside of my website. We spend a small fortune on AdWords, and it's even getting harder to have our ads show up among the big box stores.

I hope this doesn't spell the end of small players like my company. We rely heavily on AdWords and organic traffic and Google is really crowding us out.

Kay Harrison

Vigilant Woodworks, Inc.

[DTOSI]

I actually have another client who's high volume keyword rankings went down around those dates as well. Now its just amazon, staples, and the other big companies in their market on the first page. But at least Google is letting me rank on the low volume keywords for that client. It's more than I can say for Pets Spark.