Is content no longer king

... if new pages don't get indexed?

[berto]

It used to be that, if I created a new web page, Google would always index it.

With deep-inside, low-level pages now being excluded from Google's index (the site: search reports a loss of 1/3+ of my pages from the index), is it no longer true that Content Is King?

I have ideas to create dozens and dozens of new, tightly focused, detail-oriented pages. Trouble is, it is only natural--given my site design--to link these pages four or five levels deep.

Post-Big Daddy, it seems that the Google crawl/index depth is based on PR. With my site having "only" a PR5, this implies that these new four- or five-levels-deep pages will never be crawled, or if crawled, never be indexed.

From a SERPs standpoint, what's the use of creating these new pages? If SE visitors will never find these new pages, why bother?

Whatever happened to Brett Tabke's oft-repeated dictum: "Build one page of quality content per day. Google loves content, lots of quality content. Broad based over a wide range of keywords..."

If a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

[Animated]

age of site and content are the most important ones.

[wanderingmind]

I know these two interesting sites. One registered 8 months back, with a PR 5, single page 3 para text. Nothing else. No inbound links at all, the people who created it never bothered to get any, and there was nothing on the site worth linking to. I, like a know it all, gave them a speech about inbound links and PR and hah! They have a PR5! And the useless text on that page ranks for some phrases too, somewhat like a decent PR5 page should. Content king? The same situation exists for the second site with 10 pages or so, no links at all, never had any - and PR5 again! Content doesn't seem to be king, but the king (google) seems to be very content!

[soapystar]

inbound links of any kind (except recips) are by far the most important.....

[quixote]

Content doesn't seem to be king, but the king (google) seems to be very content!

Excellent wordplay! :)

[RichTC]

Ive noticed some sites can rank very high with a simple small amount of text with the keywords in it a few times.

One site is just one page has just three lines of text on it about the site comming soon with five outbound links to authority sites on the subject on the page. It has a number of anchor inbound text links to this page due to press releases about the site comming soon and it ranks 2 out of 150 million sites, a major keyword term - Proof that indeed content is no longer king!

[Komodo_Tale]

Has anyone done this?

When you create new pages or content, put AdSense ads on them for a few days. Make sure your new pages get some clicks. Then, a couple days after the AdSense ads begin showing relevant advertisements you can take-off the ads.

This way you know that one of Google's bots have scanned your content and uploaded it to the Shard Server.