theBear - 7:27 pm on Dec 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

tedster,

The most likely cause to weaken a site is tons of duplicate content caused by:

1: WWW/Non-WWW split site issues.
2: Site also indexed on the IP address.
3: Pages subjet to query string issues.
4: Pages subject to the / issue.
5: Pages subject to the automatic index vs specificly named index issue ( / vs index.html).
6: Pages indexed on port 443 (https).

The duplicate content get it right or perish thread was not in jest.

Once that tipping point is reached, well you've heard it here many times. CRUMP, CRASH.

[edited by: theBear at 7:35 pm (utc) on Dec. 29, 2006]