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Re: Think you're affected by the recent algorithm change? Post here.

D360 Mar 4, 2011 2:37 PM
Posted in group: Webmaster Central

Categories: Crawling, indexing & ranking :

Like many of you we too have been hit by Panda.

Destination360 has always strived to produce the best travel content and user experience possible.
We have over 280 travel guides written by travel writers. Our maps and photos are all original we do not use copyrighted images

My concern is that maybe content from partners may be affecting our site ranking with the new algorithm.

Partner Information:
40,000 pieces of content from Priceline that display hotel information.
Should this content be removed?

10,000 pages of car rental content from Partner Bookingwiz. These are pricing feeds.
Should this content be removed?

One thing I’ve noticed for sometime is in Webmaster Tools under the keywords column it says our site is significant for the keyword “hotel” “inn” “rental” “car”
Is this a result of it seeing the Priceline hotel listings? If so I believe we should remove this as its not reflective of our website

When I review previous top search queries like; las vegas shows, things to do in las vegas, north carolina beaches, the leaning tower of pisa, peru, verona Italy.
They are all down yet we have very strong in depth content for the traveler.
In the case of Las Vegas specifically we have had over 10 trips to Las Vegas to document each hotel, show, and attractions.

Please review our latest travel guide as an example of our work:
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/massachusetts/marthas-vineyard
As mentioned earlier the lower right columns display hotel and car rental information provided by partners.
Could that be the source of our problem?                          

We would like to correct any issue there may be so we can continue producing great content for travelers.