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Can you believe that I never considered this in all my years of link building. Thank you for bringing this up Peter!

Your Google PageRank went down immediately after some of your linking websites lost their PageRank or cut their links to you. Toolbar PageRank updates rarely so you couldn't see it until now. Timing with Panda is accidental and not related to your PageRank change. Nothing to worry about and keep up with great content and good design. New thing to keep an eye on is user experience, however links are still very strong as a factor so you should try to earn great links as well.

Correct. Latest I can find is from 9th May.

Just reporting that there has been a public toolbar PageRank update.

What did Santa give you this round?

We have implemented something similar in the past with no negative effects. Same deal with tabbed content. If this type of display is convenient for the user and not only served to search engines then you're within the search engine guidelines. Even if you do get in trouble (very unlikely) there is always a re-inclusion request in which you can explain things to Google.

One thing to keep in mind is Google's cloaking filter they've been writing about this recently as they start to compare what is displayed to them to what user would see. I cannot know exactly to what extent the site may vary in appearance with your overlay feature.

Visit: Google Webmaster Tools > Labs > Instant Previews

See the last paragraph in the attached image.

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I heard Matt Cutts once talk about tag clouds as not necessary and the fact that Google 'gets it' without it. I say if you're linking to something do it contextually for maximum link benefit.

Yes though it's going against me right now as I cannot Tweet. We've been sitting at AU $217.50 and no movement I will end the auction early and give the Tweet to the highest bidder. If anything we made two hundred bucks to our charity!

It's not exactly 3 clicks... if you're a PR 10 website it will take you quite a few clicks in before it gets "tired". Deep links are always a great idea.

Great tip. I have seen this happen too (e.g. forum, blog, archive and content part of the website not indexed equally).

Agreed!

Oh yes, Google is very big on balancing and allocation of resources. I don't think 10,000 will present a problem though as this number may be too common on ecommerce and content websites.

Very good advice in the replies. Everyone seems to have forgotten PageRank though. In Google's random surfer model it is assumed user will at some point abandon the website (after PageRank has been exhausted). This means if your site lacks raw link juice it may not have enough to go around through the whole site structure and it leaves some pages dry and unindexed. What can help is: Already mentioned flatter site architecture and unique content, but also direct links to pages not in index (including via social media) and more and stronger links towards home page which should ideally cascade down to the rest.

Well, one would assume that quality content = ranks well. It's kind of a loop, isn't it

Demand is a very interesting point!

If there are 200 content pieces on a topic versus only 2 pieces of content and one is really good value would undoubtedly be much higher where there is less such content available.

Well, I guess a well-formatted content does not always mean scannable. Little eye catching elements, bolding of key terms and colour would aid in the process.

Ah, good point which goes well with "Formatted (easy to read and follow)".

I consider user driven metrics as a big part of what Google uses to judge quality (citations, links, social buzz). Other stuff would have to be with their understanding of the content itself. I wonder how much of it they are able to figure out?

And when it comes to user motivation to spread and engage I am curious what the elements are and attempt to dissect and analyse what makes up a good piece of content.

I am curious to hear what you guys consider to be the characteristics of good content and in which order if you have a preference.

Here are a few I can think of:

• Informative (you can learn something new)
• Substantial (enough of it and thorough)
• Complete (doesn't give half-baked information or ideas)
• Unique (not regurgitated original content)
• Helpful (practical actionable information)
• Visual (content complemented by media)
• Referenced (claims made are substantiated through citations)
• Entertaining (or otherwise emotional, e.g. surprising, sad, shocking, controversial)
• Formatted (easy to read and follow)
• Timely (right content at the right time, applies for news)
• Professional (writing style, grammar, spelling and sentence structure)

Can you add to this list?

Good point. I would go further into exploring which pages / phrases have been cut most and work out any common elements of all that have been affected and define a plan of attack. If you have more than 100 articles it would take some time before it's all fixed. It's all about prioritising.

A good place to take a peek at is Google Webmaster Tools which shows search trends and CTR data as well.

There are better ways to do this. Why not create a membership badge and get them to proudly display it on their website? Return the favor for those linking if you like but don't make it mandatory, especially if it's a public offer.

$103.50 - woooo!!! Good times.