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Hi Atul If users are searching on a term, for example Amy Winehouse the results prior to her death would have probably been Youtube videos, Lyrics, her official site (if she has one) etc Immediately after her death users will be wanting to find out what happened, the latest update. As such the CTR for the existing SERP would probably be lower as the user doesn't want the Youtube video or lyrics etc. They want the QDF results to kick in and show the latest news item(s) at the top. Hope that explains it.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, user focused content is the key now. I like to know more view points on this.

Hi Geoff The link below contains an article which may be of interest about when it is best to use one over the other. http://www.whitefireseo.com/site-architecture/subdomain-or-subfolder-post-panda/ However I agree with EGOL's response. Hope this helps.

Tom, Thanks for the response, Yes, It is the best way to discover the products. So i believe noindex, follow is better ,too Just needed second person to confirm , But i was wondering why Matt Cutts blog is using all 2 of them together? Instance: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/page/3/

Hi Joe, Thanks for the comment. Its one of those things that its very hard to establish a cause and effect relationship or a correlation. What i've found is a increase in traffic not only to the home page but to the internal pages as well. I'm keeping my eye on this to see where it all goes.

Hi Lewis, Thanks for your answer. Yeah I watched that Whiteboard Friday (on Friday actually) and it was pretty interesting, however, correct me if I'm wrong but that was talking about rankings of your own site? I'm reffering to linking to such sites? Would those links be completely useless? Could they drag us down in the rankings? Or would they be better than nothing (we only have a handful of links at the moment)? Regards, Ash

It seems to me you're a bit confused between canonical URLs and URLs that have been rewritten. What a canonical URL does is telling the search engines what version of your URL is that canonical one, which can for example exclude some parameters. One the actual url www.example.org/special/?foo=bar&test=3 you can tell the search engines that www.example.org/special/ is your URL (and therefor the parameters foo and test will be ignored and won't create any duplicate content). But, these canonical URLs have to exist! To create new URLs, you should either look if the CMS (Content Management System) you're using has the option to switch on static URLs (sometimes called SEF URLs). If you're using a custom system, or your CMS doesn't support static URLs, you can search google for terms such as: mod_rewrite, static urls php, htaccess url rewrite.

You would determine the quality of a site based on all the normal factors. If you have a URL to share I would be happy to take a look and share an opinion on it's quality.

Thanks.  I'm certainly familiar with DMOZ and Yahoo, as they have the highest DA.  Haven't seen BOTW, so I'll check that out.

Does anyone has any other suggestions?

Thanks Keri, Very much appreciated...

Boxed navigation is becoming pretty common navigation style these days. Many large corporations such as Rackspace, IBM, and Cisco use this format. Best practice is to have on average not more than 150 outbound links on the page so try to maintain your on page links around this number.

Essentially, keep your site design around the "user experience" as this is a post-panda world. Don't overload it with blocks of advertising, breaking up the page, content, layout and user experience. The Keep It Simple (KIS) strategy usually works best for me when it comes to running ads on sites, within the user interface/design. NEVER use more than 1 block on a site's page as I looks "spammy" and cluttered.. As a user myself, I immoderately click back or out of a site that I find is running more than 1 block of ads. The page just looks terrible. You might also want to consider A/B split testing of different landing or home pages. This will allow you to rey different layouts to get the best results on both, where the ads perform, and as well as the user conversion model for the sites content and lead generation. Another note to keep in mind is to reduce the blocks of ads running relevant to the content of the market/site you are working in. Don't run open Adwords capaigns on sites for just "anything" to generate clicks. If your running a bike store website, keep the AD's targeted people in the "bike" industry. Keep the ads filtered and related on your site's side to the market content you are optimizing for. Remember, in post-Panda, it's the user experience that the quality teams are looking to improve.