Pavlos, thanks for starting this thread.
Apparently there was a Panda update a few days before the webspam update so people should be aware of this too. I have completely disappeared for a search term that I was around #1 for one and a half years and I now see scraper sites on page 1 for that search term. I see thin affiliate sites with very little backlinks on the first page for heavily competitive search terms and things just dont seem right. I have also noticed that a lot of strong sites have not been affected much but others have vanished from search (or are on page 5 or something).
I have also seen examples posted on the net of blogs with no posts being in pos 1 for major competitive search terms.
I think Dave is right... we need to leave things to settle before we see what happens but I would absolutely love this to be rolled back. It just appears that it has had the opposite affect that was intended as loads of webspam has surfaced in the results that were not there before.
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