When you're finished, simply visit our homepage, please! You'll be able to browse our fish profiles, plants records, biotopes and articles!
The section called aqua-fish.net/answers/ was merged with articles, fish profiles and plants profiles that belong to Aqua-Fish.Net. The last question was moved to another page on March 25th 2011. Even though we created this section in order to offer "to-the-point" type of answers on over 600 questions, the google algorithm update called "Panda" has caused a serious damage in terms of organic traffic and we strongly believe that the answers section was considered "low quality" (along with other pages, read below for more information). That's why we had to move all answers to other pages that, as we believe, weren't causing any penalty. One of results of our internal analysis is that easy-to-understand answers on questions are what google doesn't like. Well, a robot or an algorithm cannot detect if any answer is really useful unless a human goes through it and makes a decision.
Another part of our site that was causing penalty (at least we think so) were the comments pages - pages without monetisation created automatically in order to make every comment easy-to-find. When a person submitted a comment, it was published as a single page after approval. Often we answer various questions and help people - so why not make these pages as simple as possible without necessity of scrolling through other 100 comments just to find the one you're interested in? Well... An algorithm cannot detect if these pages are really useful; An algorithm will only see a page with content that has been published twice, which, as we believe, is causing penalty too.
Thirdly, our fish search, plants search, and photoalbums pages were using paging which resulted in thousands of HTML documents - Well, google is using paging too, so why cannot we? Again, a robot will see thousands of "useless" pages, but a human will see real search results, ordered records and paged photoalbums pages. They're no more, all results are now shown on a single page which means if your search returns 500 results, all of them are shown at once. Well, we don't think it's what our visitors want, but if we want to eliminate the penalisation, we must act this way.
Currently all questions are redirected to where they can be found - articles, fish or plants profiles. The remaining pages of /answers point to this page. So if you were linking to a particular page of our /answers, don't worry - the link will be handled properly by our server :) !
Thanks for understanding! We had to do this, because as of March 25th 2011 we're being outranked by websites that steal our content. The goal is to get rid of that penalty and to attract even more visitors to our pages!
Jan Hvizdak, founder of Aqua-Fish.Net