Had a thought in the shower, I'd like to share.
Google's Panda was designed to eliminate "farms", correct? Farms were successful, and similar websites which weren't farms because they resembled news organizations. So if you're Google, how do you differentiate farms from legitimate news organizations. Well newspapers are generally businesses, while MFA, and farms are typically just people.
I believe Panda's intent is to separate legitimate news organizations from personal websites. If you're running a site that looks like a newspaper or news organization, yet your who.is shows it's a single person, or no other sources cite you as a legitimate newspaper, or magazine. (Such as a joint trade organization.) Then that's probably why you're being hit by Google's Panda.
Websites from "people" should be about those people. If you happen to have many interests, then you should have many websites. That's the reason these big websites like Hubpages, etc, whom are now employing subdomains are seeing improvement. They are no longer a single website trying to imitate a news organization, they are becoming what they should have been, a collection of many websites from many different people.
So the only way to beat Panda and keep your "old-style" multi-genre website seems to be to become a legitimate news organization with accreditation, a business address, and dare I say "a reputation". In that light, if you haven't capitulated to Panda yet, then I assume you're only wanting more pain. The only way to beat Google's panda update seems to be through ruin. Tear it down, build it back up again. As Elizabeth Gilbert says, "Ruin is a gift, ruin is the road to transformation."
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