InteractRV, the company I co-founded in 2001, does alot of search engine optimization and other Internet marketing strategies/tactics to help clients improve.  We also run a handful of consumer facing websites like www.RVingPlanet.com and www.UsedRVsForSale.com.  RvingPlanet focus on rv sales and reviews of new RVs while UsedRVsForSale focuses on just used rvs.

Back in February the traffic on RVP took a nose dive ... it was a panda slap.  Google had updated its search algorythmn in an attempt to get better quality site rankings.  Unfortunately, it also affected good quality sites.  We are following their suggestions for getting our site whitelisted and I'm confident we will achieve that.

What good came out of the whole thing is that there now is a list existing of what a site needs to do not to get panda slapped.  The better side to the list is alll the things to do to get ranked better by search engines.

If interested you can read all about in this great article here.  Best of luck!

August 18, 2011 Update

Another great article here