All the SEO and Webmaster community has been interested in in the past couple weeks is the Content Farm Update, also known as the Farmer or Panda update.

For the first time, Google has responded to webmasters with advice. Well, it actually wasn’t the first time, but I’ll get to that later.

In the ongoing Google Webmaster Help thread, the one posted by Google for Webmasters to appeal to Google, Google’s Wysz posted some advice.

He said in short, if you were hit, review your content and any content you think Google would classify as “low quality” get rid of by deleting it or moving it to a new domain.

Here is the full quote with my bold highlights:

Now, as I said before, this is not really new advice. As we mentioned in the How to Regain Your Rankings After the Farmer Update article. Google’s JohnMu gave very similar advice for when it came to how to fix your scraper site, he said then:

Read that second part closely, pretty much the same advice.

So if you were hit, either delete the low quality content, which I know many many webmasters are doing – or move them to a new domain or maybe subdomain.

Vanessa Fox covered this thread last night at Search Engine Land and also summarized the content farm session from SMX.

Our ongoing coverage and stories on the Content Farmer/Panda update:

I’m Hit! Get Your Google Rankings Back After Farmer/PandaHow to Regain Your Rankings After the Farmer Update
SEOs Chew On Wired’s Interview With Cutts & Singhal On Farmer Update
What’s Your Name? Farmer Or Panda?
Was Google Too Hasty with the Farmer Update? SEO’s Discuss Good & Bad
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Shocking: Google To Tweak Content Farm Algorithm
Poll: Were You Impacted By The Google Farmer Update?
Google Farmer Update Support Groups
Google’s Farmer Update Live: 12% Of Google’s Results Forever Changed
Google Warns Of “Big Changes Here Very Shortly”
Correction: Google’s Scraper Algorithm Now Live, Not Content Farms
Google’s Content Farm Algorithm Harm You? Categorize Your Site To Fix It.
Confirmed: Google’s Content Farm Algorithm Live! Sites Are Dropping!
Google’s Next Target: Content Farms & On Page Spam

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.