I had a client with rankings flying over the place for one particularly keyword.  Now I know why.  It ended up back where it began, however.

Also, it reaffirmed my “let the dust settle first” approach to handling sharp ranking jumps.

Great article. We’ve got great indepth insight regarding the panda update on our blog, http://www.keywordsearchpros.com. Head there now to learn more. 

I dun’ predicted this mess on Friday! Actually I had no idea it was Panda – I had assumed it was a Penguin refresh. But now that I saw some penalized homepages recover during this panda update, I have formed the opinion that if your homepage stops ranking, and an irrelevant subpage is ranking very low down instead, your homepage probably got Pandalized.

SPAM!

I don’t only feel sorry for myself… I feel sorry for my competitors who seem to be in panic!

Same here Andrew – rankings for some of their best keywords were all over the place for a while, although they seem to have settled now

i hope we will see panda 3.8 very soon to make worst position of our keywords.

Let see what would happen next…

It’s too early to be sure, but I get the impression that Google’s latest update has given a boost to our editorial site’s traffic in the major English-speaking countries and had a slight negative impact on traffic from non-English-speaking countries. (Our site is in English with a Google Translate widget.)

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 Danny I was in literally shocked with your “simple question”
God save us
 

After Panda 3.7 update, generate double  traffic on my site…. First time I am really happy with panda update…

There was also some kind of change/update right before this as explained by Dr. Pete over at SEOmoz here: 
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-bigfoot-update-aka-dr-pete-goes-crazy.  With Penguin, Panda and this one SEOs need to really work hard to build quality links and focus on the user. Otherwise I imagine it’s going to be continually stressful as Google cracks down on low quality tactics.

Remember Big G is looking for relevant content. Not spun!, if your
building your website growth from the start- doing it the wrong way then
trying to fix it later will only hurt.

Another important thing to remmeber is Not to over optimize. don’t use
those crappy backlink attempts like making a post and then pinging it.
there’s more but lost my train of thought.

It appears that the update has helped some, and penalized others. I focus on producing good content and healthy backlinks, and none of my rankings have really taken much of a hit. 

Here is the secret sauce:
From now on- diversify, diversify, diversify. You want to drive traffic through
quality backlinks from multiple sources with varying anchor texts. That’s
the name of the game with SEO from here on out.
And you know that? This kind of SEO is going to be rock solid

To keep visitors on your site a lot longer, do plenty of internal linking
between pages and posts. Wikipedia does this, and it makes it MUCH easier
to find what you’re looking for at times.

Hop on the social networking bandwagon.
Facebook and Twitter are the big
ones, but you can use reddit, Stumbleupon, Digg, Pinterest and more.

The key here is to do everything you can to make your visitors stay longer.
The longer they’re reading your site/watching your videos, the more Google
will think “oh, people do like the stuff on this site”. Go for high quality
content, not just quantity.

From Rank On Top

Marc, yup, actually they will try to eliminate every effort for optimizing (within a year or two) so they have control, that’s why using social media to help spread the word will actually dominate the seo on a page because of the popularity in importance in real life.

I seriously doubt they can accomplish that in any real way. I just took a look by request from some companies that were hit very hard and its easy to see what they were doing wrong. Primarily atricle directory posts with the same boilerplate Bio and links like ezinearticles and others as well as the over hyped forum profile spam. Very easy for a script to find and thumbprint, so Google can always detect that sort of thing. However I do think the guys at Google are working against their own interests. If they claim to be aiming for quality and relevant content, there are many new examples of this update dumping a load of spam into local searches. All you need is a targeted URL and some spun blather stuffed with keywords and this update just thinks your just great. The law of unintended consequences. I wonder if the anti spam team actions are ever reviewed by the content quality math gurus for counter intuitive interference potential.