internetheaven - 11:04 pm on Dec 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

What about the Title / meta description tags? Are they unique too?

Of course.

In discussing the Supplemental Index, I haven't noticed anyone talk about freshness for a while.

Hmmm now I've always disagreed with that. Many of the highest ranking pages in this type of industry (advice/articles) are the oldest and unchanged. What use is a news archive that changes each article every day? ;) I have only found the freshness helps with my commercial websites (i.e. products/services). As many people have pointed out in many threads, Google treats different industries/topics differently ... I would go a step further to say that even the keywords searched for dictate the "type" of search/algorithm Google uses.

internetheaven - a few more details will help your question to be answered: -what steps you have taken to eliminate duplicate content

Yes, I checked that out, there are a few copies of my articles about the place with scrapers but only a few and none of them have backlinks/PR/etc.

-how have you arranged your crawlability

Don't understand that question, we've already been crawled, and now they are supplemental. There is a main page which links to some of the articles and those articles link to each other. Each page is a max of three steps from main page, most are two.

-what is quality of your inbound links

High, very high. We only have one-way inbounds and nearly all have PR1+

-any deep links

Not as many as I'd like, but yes.

-how long has the site been up

Ah, now there are two answers to this. Firstly the domain is over two years old. The "site" has only been up for one year.

-any changes since it was launched

Yes, lots. Main page re-written several times, same with inner pages such as contact/terms/about etc. of course the articles haven't changed because they are date specific.