TheMadScientist - 12:05 am on Mar 31, 2011 (gmt 0)

I completely agree tedster ... people are looking for a single, simple answer, like those of the past have been, and that just plain doesn't seem to be possible any longer from what I'm looking at...

It's a very difficult challenge, especially if uniqueness or 'originality' is part of the score, because Site A may do something and Site B's owner may think 'Oh, this is the answer' and replicate what Site A does, and it could totally backfire, because by replicating Site A (in someway) they lower the 'originality' of Site B ... It's really difficult to explain what I mean with originality and uniqueness, because IMO it would have to be 'niche' specific on a very granular level.

If Site A in Niche 1 does [blah here] and Site B in Niche 2 finds a way to incorporate [blah here] then Site B may be the originator in Niche 2, which could be a benefit, while at the same time, Site B in Niche 2 replicating what Site A in Niche 2 does could be a detriment ... I hope this makes a bit of sense to someone, and I know currently they have a scraped duplicate content issue, but imo that's something separate Panda 'walked over' during the processing and will be fixed, independently.

Google's really turned in to a complicated issue to explain, because for me it's more of a 'concept' than a set answer, and explaining a concept with the complexity of G is very difficult for me...