GrinninGordon - 3:13 am on Apr 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

wasmith

I am still not 100% clear but I do not think it is the cross linking between pages that is the problem, that sounds natural.

It sounds like you have solely targetted a certain key phrase on virtually every page. Now, for me that would already certainly say you would be stretched over 5000 pages? to provide unqiue content on each page.

From what I can understand / see, you got dropped for doorway pages / excessive focus on a single key phrase.

I theme as well, but not focus anymore (and I just got #1 for a really hard search term, and #2 for one of the hardest). What I do is;

1) Main Keyword Page "Widgets"
2) Directory / Information pages (one also targetted at my main keywords) - the rest are targetted at "Blue Widgets", "Red Widgets"
3) Product pages - targetted at "Round Blue Widgets", "Square Blue Widgets", "Nice Blue Widgets", "Gay Blue Widgets", "Cultural Blue Widgets", "Sporty Blue Widgets", etc.

Also, use a site map.
Also, put some of the more important product page links on your index page.
Also, have some related inbound and outbound links.
Also, don't do anything Spammy in the slightest
Also, make sure the html is good, fast, fat free and loads fast

I think your question about internal linking is mute. I think internal linking is key. But it seems your problem is you have 5000 pages for "Hormel sandwich meat"!