Hi Hiren :) I think you’ll find our guide to siloing for defined website themes useful: http://www.bruceclay.com/seo/silo.htm

Sorry Jessica, I wasn’t clear enough, so here is my case scenario:

Site#1 – less supporting pages in their theme/silo but more content on their homepage and then we have site#2 with less homepage content but a large silo with supporting content, in the past #2 outranked #1 but now #1 jumped #2…. are you still with me? :)

I dont think a large site with tons of disjointed content ever worked for anyone but here we have content themes
but maybe because of its size the relevance is somehow diluted!!

Hi, Emma — right — people from different industries and backgrounds have varying perspectives on what quality writing is. That’s a valid point.

I think it’s a matter of people getting used to the idea of Web content writing and how it differs from other types.

But that still doesn’t solve the problem of what one person may find valuable over another.

I’ve actually read some tips with takeaways I could use on various subjects from some of those sites that may be dubbed “content farms” — not the norm but can happen.

Thanks for your comment, Emma!

Hi Joel — so a site that has more concentrated themes versus a large site with tons of disjointed content?

What one group of readers believe to be quality content could be of a completely different standard to a seperate group of readers. This is especially hard when you are trying to make your site accessible to all readers from a lexical and syntactic perspective.

More complicated terms and longer sentences (with more complicated clauses) would indicate a higher standard of writing to me, but unfortunately, we are in a world where information needs to be
presented very simply to readers, especially in complicated fields, like finance. Would this simple way of writing constitute ‘high quality’ in the Google bots’ eyes..?

Panda has really upped the ante on finding a style of writing that suits readers’ needs and satisfies the bots.

Size doesn’t matter any more, its time to get rid of the extra weight and focus more on quality.

I’m with you, Kent — I think Panda is generally a good thing. Where it gets tricky is Google deciding what quality content is and translating that into an algorithm. Will Google’s definition of quality ring true for everyone? So far, Google has said the data shows Panda is blocking a majority of the sites that users block as well. So, we’ll see.

Those pesky scraper sites … thanks for commenting, Subhakar.