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 More options Jul 10 2007, 8:28 pm
From: alkenmrs
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:28:04 -0700
Local: Tues, Jul 10 2007 8:28 pm
Subject: Re: Two weeks in Google Jail and No Chance of Parole it would seem!!
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Thanks for your response Adam.

> Alan, it's actually more an issue of "substantiveness" (if that's a
> word :-) of content.

Well, at least you could spell it which is more than I could :-)

I am not too sure what you are getting at in respect of the articles
in the respective sections.

Some things have to start off in a broad sense but then the follow up
articles hopefully expand the main subject further. A sort of history,
why and how to scenario.

The different sections do start off smallish and broad in nature but
do expand over time with other articles that go into deeper detail, or
at least I hope they do. Having said that, from what you are saying,
perhaps I am seeing it only from my perspective and not from the
readers point of view.

One or two sections, namely the Coffee, Healthy Living and Sleep
sections are fast outgrowing themselves because of the increasing
amount of articles and sub categories that have been added over time.
However, the more recent additions have less content (around 20 or so
articles) but will grow over time, depending on the subject matter.

I would guess that it is these more recent additions that have
triggered this total deindexing from Google, so it maybe best to shift
them out of the way of this site and take it back to where it was some
months ago with some sort of broad theme.

Theming sort of went out of the window recently. When the site first
started, some 10 years ago, it was intitally the TV merchandise
section and the video conversion service. Being in the UK with a large
US customer base, video tapes from here could not be played in the US.
To get over that, the video conversion service was offered to those
customers to be able watch UK PAL tapes. Then DVD came along with the
same US/UK compatibility problems. Consequently, the Region Free DVD
section was born. Internet video and HDTV/HD DVD started to emerge, so
sections were set up about those subjects. The problem with all of
these subjects is trying to explain technical terminology in a
reasonably simple manner which is not always easy, so it quite
probably comes across and very matter of fact.

Some of the other parts of the site are self interest and I guess, on
hindsight, shouldn't be all lumped together under the same domain.

Alan

On Jul 10, 11:47 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:

> Alan, it's actually more an issue of "substantiveness" (if that's a
> word :-) of content.  A terse article on a broad topic is unlikely to
> garner much user or Google appreciation, regardless of its neighbors
> (e.g., simply spinning off these sections without appreciably
> expanding them is unlikely to be useful).


 
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