Swanson - 1:16 am on May 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

Excellent idea, good to see a positive plan.

From my experience I can only give the following ideas:

1) Home Page canonical problems.

Change the name of your home page (to another default supported by your host) and then change all internal links:

So, if your home page was "index.htm" - change the name to "index.html" and change ALL internal links to go to your domain e.g "www.mysite.com". Create a new "index.htm" with a single link to "www.mysite.com" saying the home page has moved - do not 301 or 302 redirect, Google does not deal with it. Use Matt Cutts blog as an example.

This in my experience over the past few weeks causes Google to recrawl fresh as it is not using a cache for the page "index.htm" as it no longer exists. You can see the result by putting adsense on it to see if it is picked up now that Googlebot and Mediabot use the same cache.

2) Dropped Pages

Look at your web page template. If you can reduce the amount of whitespace, html comments and any other "white noise" in your page templates, and therefore increasing the content density in relation to the page size (sounds mental, I know but it has worked, especially in blogs). Things like head tags (get rid of anything but title,keyword,description).

And more, just need to take a break!