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Thank you jStrong, I have just posted something on that thread too. I am glad to know I am not alone! I hope we can figure out what happened and possibly tackle the problem. Thanks!

Thank you very much guys for your answers, tips and insights! I will move accordingly...

Thank you Geoff, that makes sense to me... I will try to pursue what you are suggesting. Thanks you again! All the best, Fab.

Thank you Peter, yes, we are aware of that and are working in some way to consolidate multiple versions of the same piece of music via canonical tags. I also think that's the only way to go for us. Thank you again for your insights!

Thank you!

My experience is the average to the public e-commerce sites are that, but other like b2b sites mid week is busier,  but mostly all are quieter at the weekend.  But granted that different sectors will be.... different

Thank you for your reply, this is interesting and I could keep it as a "backup" solution.

That's a great idea Dana, thank you for the suggestion. I will try that with some of our less performing category pages, then I'll post the results here. Thank you again! Best, Fabrizio

Thank you Mark! Yes, I knew about that option and helps a big deal! I appreciated your help. Thanks!

Thank you Jesse, that's pretty much what I thought, but I wanted to have someone else confirming me that. Thank you very much, appreciated your help! All the best,

Yes, I agree with you Todd, thank you for your reply!

Sure I will! Thanks!

Yes, that makes sense... I will do that. Thanks!

Julian, we sell digital sheet music and the additional 100,000 are products from Alfred music publishing company. Of course they will not be "high quality pages", but they are product pages, each one offering a piece of music. We are an e-commerce website, how can we avoid having product pages?! But of course, as Wesley said above, we can improve each product page quality content by giving more/custom information for each product, increasing user reviews, etc. Other suggestions?

Thank you Wesley for your comment on the other thread about the Panda. We have decided to put back all the pages in the index and in the meantime try to differentiate and thick them more. Our traffic was down too much as well as our business was suffering too much that we couldn't keep up. As for the bounce rate, that is pretty much from all our sources. Direct traffic has actually an higher bounce rate right now (58%), and used to be better in the past (38% in 2009), but on the Google side it is now 46.33% whereas used to be 57% in 2009. Referral traffic is about 50% bounce rate and used to be worse in 2009 at 53%. Please, note that in 2009 our business was going great. 2009 was the best year ever and we always take it as the reference the reference year. I am aware that we need to get that down furthermore, but it is hard to understand how to do it. If I look at our website, I don't see anything misleading or anything for which users can be scared away, but maybe I need someone that can think more "out of the box". I really appreciate your help and brainstorming! All the best,

Thank you guys, I agree with you and I think I have to remove the prices from the structured data. Our prices are not really "lower" than competition because our music is very high quality, and quality must be paid. So, I think it is not good for us to have pricing display, and you gave me confirmation to this doubt. Now: do you think it is easy to remove the pricing from Google results just as removing the structured information from our product pages? Is there any other way (or additional way) to tell Google "We don't want you to show our prices?". I also read that Google may associate natural search results with Merchant Center datafeed (we are on there), and if that's the case how to solve it? Thank you again.

No more thoughts about Panda? Is it really already forgotten by the big SEO community??!!

Thank you Paul, I have just voted and left a comment! Let's cross our fingers! That tool is great, but can be much improved Thank you again.

And what about "external"?