Panda Recovery and Alexa

I've been chronicling the ups and downs with my fitness blog and the impact of Google's "panda" algorithm change.  In summary, I was hit really hard by the first phase of panda,  but seem to have recovered nicely with the second phase. 

I did take some steps to remove "duplicate content" (after the first phase), but I'm not really sure that made any difference (since only about 10% of my pages content was not original). 

Anyway, I saw another positive sign this week:  breaking the 100,000 rank on Alexa.  I haven't done that since September 2010, when I broke the 90,000 rank.