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The "Not Selected" isn't cumulative.   The "Ever Crawled" is though.

I have a large Wordpress content site.  It was hit by Panda on a very same day that my "not selected" multiplied by 8.  I don't think it was a coincidence, and I didn't make any large changes to the site besides the regular addition of about 10 posts per week.

I've been able to effect a downward movement on the not selected count by removing/redirecting things like "replytocom" variable URLs in the comments section;reworking print and email versions of each article, etc.   It very slow though, only reducing by an average of 100 per week.

Needless to say, I think the not selected metric means quite alot.

Pingdom says your page is 5.5mb big.  But it loads pretty quick for me.

You can do alot better.  Here's my recommendations.

1.  Optimize your images before uploading.  I would recommend the WP-Smushit plugin which does it on the fly, but lately the yahoo api hasn't been working.

2.  Switch the W3 Total Cache.  It does the same thing as Super cache, but there's some additional goodies.

3.  Using W3TC, you should enable minify and combine for all the css and js.   The plugin allows you to combine all your css and js in two files (from both your theme and other plugins).

4.  Consider using a CDN.  Again W3TC makes it easy.  I use amazon cloudfront, and it's amazingly cheap.  Essentially, you keep your current hosting, but actually serve all css, js, and images from the CDN.  It makes an enormous difference.

Well I think you should focus less on making it seem "more natural", and actually allow it to be natural.  Once you do that, there's no mixing and measuring anchor text as if you're a chemist.   No worrying about ratios to dilute and all that nonsense.

But that's just me.

yes, do not include the http://www

and yes, there's no space.

Looks like he's already implemented many changes since this question was posted.  At the time, he was running just Supercache, now he's got W3TC, MaxCDN and he seems to have optimized some of the images.

Definitely agree with aiming for 1Mb or less per page, though.

Changing that isn't likely to result in much improvement.   It might actually have a negative effect if proper 301 redirects aren't in place.  And even if you do the 301's correctly, there's no guarantee the search engines will see it the same.

You'll get better mileage if you change the page's titles and the content to better satisfy those keywords.

Also rather than listening to what other people say, you should probably check the actual search volume of these keywords and compare.

First, you cannot prevent link juice from being distributed or spent by nofollowing a link. The link juice still flows, it just doesn't go anywhere ..it just evaporates.

Second, nofollow is like saying you don't trust this page or you can't vouch for it. Why would you tell Google that you don't trust your own pages ? For that reason, I never use nofollow on internal links.

Third, I don't think you even need to worry about those pages getting juice. It's natural. It might be even a quality signal in Google's algos if they can see that you have a contact page, or privacy policy, or details like an address or telephone number on the about page. Bad sites tend to not have those things.

Neither ranks better than the other.  Wordpress produces HTML pages and can even produce .html permalinks.  Google treats them the same.

The benefit of using Wordpress (or any CMS) is that it makes it easier to manage the content and structure of the website.  Some say Google has preference for Wordpress but that's only because out of the box with even the default theme, it meets many basic seo requirements.  That ..and about 15% of all websites use it.

I don't think you should do it by screen size.

If you're using Wordpress, then install W3 Total Cache.

Among MANY other essential things, it will allow you redirect visitors based on user-agent to EITHER:

1.  another theme that's better suited to particular sets of users (for example, one wordpress theme for mobile, and one for tablets, one specially for iOS devices, etc).

2.  or set it to "pass through" so you can handle mobile management with another plugin like "Mobile Smart", which i use.

3.  or set it redirect to m.domain.com which is what you want.