: Is there a way to tell if my website might have been hit by Panda 4.0 penalties? I just came to realization that our site might have been hit by the Panda 4.0 update. Before May, 2014 our

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I just came to realization that our site might have been hit by the Panda 4.0 update.

Before May, 2014 our site received 1.5 million pageviews/mo, and after the update, it has never received more than 600,000 pageviews/mo. Now if I look back even more with Barracuda tool, I can see it might have been affected by the Top Heavy 1.0 update on Thu Jan 19 2012. Before all these updates, the site grew to 2.5 million pageviews/mo.

It has been 1.5 years since the update, and since then our traffic has stopped growing.

Here is a screenshot from Google Analytics:

Here is one more screenshot from Barracuda looking at the traffic from 2012: www.evernote.com/l/AEIX6iP4USBGtbyRLZ1oTmcACgBtXHBP2rw
It would be helpful to know if we might have been impacted with this penalty so that I can start to rectify the causes of that. Based on the dates and traffic patterns, can you help me confirm that we might have been hit with this penalty?

By the way, I have always focused on time-consuming link building: Submitting links to design news sites, leaving quality comments under related articles, and always have written unique quality content on site for years.

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