Guys,
With you all the way on this one. I'm 2, 2 and 2 for all the above yet 400-odd in SERPs, tho' top 5 in Yahoo!
I've got a theory that I'd like to run by you which I posted to a seperate thread yesterday,
"1. URL confusion. Mixture of yourdomain.com and
www.yourdomain.com.
2. On internal links mixture of
www.yourdomain.com/anypage and .../anypage.
3. When using session ids (e.g. for member login page) links can be generated with session id as suffix. This can, and has in my case, result in two copies of linked page in index.
4. Old, pre-launch copies of your site. In my case this is a site sitting on some free web space. No longer indexed by Yahoo!, Google still index it.
The problems in my view affext like this,
1. Duplicate content penalty.
2. Poor quality signal.
3. Duplicate content penalty.
4. Duplicate content penalty."
My view is that if you've got a mixture of the above you're going to get a serious spam penalty.
Any of this apply?
Regards,
pne