Patrick_Taylor - 12:42 pm on Nov 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

I don't see changing your site keyword to "home" doing anything but harm, but I think it is worth looking at whether a standard sidebar loaded with long columns of internal links is seen by Google (and Yahoo) as somehow 'unorganic' and the mark of a 'machine-generated' site.

The exact opposite - internal links contained not in lists but spaced out within contextually relevant paragraphs - looks like a recipe for a certain amount of success on areas I have been looking at. This might not meet the needs of the user on a large site though.

I haven't made a deep study of this - it's just a hunch based on looking in the areas I'm interested in.