Google should offer webmaster notifications through emails and Webmaster Tools, like they do so well with since 2007 and has lately bumped up to issue notifications of doorway pages, unnatural links, cloaking, or even generic site issues and wordpress installs being out of date.
So why not tell webmasters if they have excessive or worrisome low quality content and thus need to fix the content on their site in order to regain trust and rankings in Google. [seroundtable.com...] Well put RustyBrick. +1
Too much pain, confusion and financial hardship for folks out there on this one not to support your view. Any +2's or inputs from others?
Shaddows
1:46 pm on Jun 23, 2011 (gmt 0)
Letting you know you have a problem, and letting you know where and what that problem is, are two very different things.
"Excessive and/or worrisome shallow content detected" is not the same as
@Shaddows - very true, but it would be a wake up call to focus on the onpage factors. This and gathering community knowledge would be useful.
freejung
6:33 am on Jun 25, 2011 (gmt 0)
Panda is designed to destroy entire sites, not try to find the best, most relevant content on a page by page basis.
If that's the case, then why leave a handful of the best pages on the site with rankings intact? Why does it appear to matter where your content is in the link graph in relation to specific pandalized pages? Why not just demote the entire site uniformly? For that matter, why leave it in the index at all?
