eBay Traffic will take a big hit due to Google's Panda update

[t-shirts-au]

This is quite sad news for eBay and especially for all sellers. Google's new Panda 4.0 update has had a dramatic influence on eBay's search engine rankings. Early reports show eBay's visibility for thousands of keywords to be down 33%-80%+

http://searchengineland.com/panda-4-0s-big-loser-ebay-winners-losers-chart-192123

http://moz.com/blog/panda-4-payday-loan-2-and-ebays-very-bad-day

Less exposure on the SERPS (Search Engine Results Page) means less visitors to everyones listings. It seems eBay's strategy of generating pages with no content and with little user relevance has come back to bite them 😞

[artlover74]

@yes t-shirts, I am talking about the hacking incident...

[davewil1964]

Oh the one that happened several months ago? Not the OP, which was the Panda update?

[t-shirts-au]

@davewil1964. pets as in pet products. Not sure why you are nit picking the term used

[t-shirts-au]

@clarry100, a 30-80% drop in organic traffic is not something that we shouldn't worry about. I can guarantee you eBay will most definitely be worried about it.

a $125 adword spend campaign isn't really a extensive test case or sample size for organic traffic (generally higher converting than adwords).

[ajarnjenny]

Pandas, Penguins and Hummingbirds. 

How can anyone keep up with it all? Really.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@ajarnjenny wrote:

Pandas, Penguins and Hummingbirds. 

How can anyone keep up with it all? Really.

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[davewil1964]

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@t-shirts-au wrote:
@davewil1964. pets as in pet products. Not sure why you are nit picking the term used

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Maybe because terminology is relevant?

[t-shirts-au]

common sense more so in many cases