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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
Interesting thread.
Sly has been spot on in each post.
When did you start and how can you be certain as to whether or not your traffic increases were due to Panda?
Seems like it would be hard to tell with a relatively new and rapidly expanding network.
Also the updates have seemed to favor sites with more depth, this last one increased the weight on update frequency, and both trends are expected to continue.
How are your bounce rates, time spent, and # page views?
If you're getting 90% search traffic across 50 domains, I wouldn't worry about doing link exchanges right now. You have the means to interlink your own sites for seo benefits, the traffic from link exchanges will likely not be nearly as targeted and you'll just be diluting your own traffic quality.
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I say that my traffic boosts were from Panda because for example, 10 of my blogs were only doing about 20-30 visitors a day and they were maybe only 1-2 months old...then right after the news started coming in that Google was doing a Panda update, those 20-30 visits shot up to a steady 80-90 visitors and with every panda update the traffic on my network just increases drastically and has stayed steady....that's not to say that Google can't slap my sites at any time and bring the traffic back down but for right now it seems I'm doing something right in Google's eyes.
My bounce ratio hovers between 35-45%. I will try to post a few stat screens later on just to show the overrall growth. I mean I'm happy with the way my network is growing don't get me wrong, I just didn't know if I could be potentially doing better with my network.