(Entry was posted by Lewis Young on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/30/2015).

Panda Algorithm Penalty

In your experience, how many low quality pages could result in a penalty from the Panda algorithm (as a percent of the overall number of pages indexed under a domain?) e.g. if you have 10, 000 indexed pages, then how many low quality pages would it take to be penalized, 50? 100? 1000?

A lot of SEOs seem to state that it only takes a few but no one will ever put a number on it. I find it hard to believe Google would be so strict as to penalize a whole domain with Panda if

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Lewis Young: In your experience, how many low quality pages could result in a penalty from the Panda algorithm (as a percent of the overall number of pages indexed under a domain?) e.g. if you have 10,000 indexed pages, then how many low quality pages would it take to be penalized, 50? 100? 1000?

A lot of SEOs seem to state that it only takes a few but no one will ever put a number on it. I find it hard to believe Google would be so strict as to penalize a whole domain with Panda if <5% of pages do not meet the quality standards.

What are your thoughts?
Mujahid shaikh: It depends how many low quality page you have.. and how many have them interlinked with each other..