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Just thinking... maybe the users that visit sites that run adsense AND that were hit by the Panda Virus - are already ad blind to our ads because they've already seen them (and clicked them perhaps) on the higher-ranked sites that were not hit by the Panda Virus.
If this were the case the solution would be to immunize your site to the Panda Virus by taking your already good content and shaking a box of the following on your sites:
1) Every possible social button (especially google+ how's that for blackmail)
2) Put a youTube video on every single page (how's that for blackmail)
3) Make a newsletter even if your content doesn't lend itself to having a newsletter
4) don't put your adsense blocks in the first 3 visible areas of your site (only Google is allowed to do that)
5) If you answer the visitor's question in 100 words or less - crap out another 1000 words to waste the viewer's time - but to ward off the Panda Virus
6) If your site was monotone because you're color blind - Panda Virus will eat you alive - make sure you shake a bunch of other colors all over your site
7) Allow social comments on every single page of your site
8) Put a live twitter/facebook feed with your main kw in it - even if it takes away from your website.
9) If you haven't linked out to your competitors yet - do so - that way the Panda Virus knows you're giving everyone the pros/cons and choices. I'd love to see a Bing.com and Yahoo.com link on Google.com (nofollow'd of course)
10) Any other possible "signal" per Matt Cutts that your site is not "spammy" that you can think of - especially if it takes away from your user's experience. Because all that matters is what the Panda Virus thinks of your user's experience - not you.
And your traffic will begin coming back! True story. Across 50+ sites and counting. Good job Panda Virus - I hope you got a big bonus.
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