I suppose that the thread starter wanted to point out that how important it is to write valuable and unique content. Hence, this forum..
With the SEO Service that I manage, we will turn people down for services if their website doesn't have any good content on it. It is much harder to give them a quality service & meet expectations using link building alone. What you are linking to matters a whole lot.
I think this time, when Google change its algorithem, it change the way it weigh different features related to ranking a website. I've done nothing new with my sites, which have been improving in Traffic and PR over the past year, in the recent months. However, the PR suddenly drop. My own guess is that Google used to focus on a few features, and my sites' PR have been increasing as I've been working on these aspects. But recently, these aspects are not weighed as important as they used to be, so the PR rank of my sites decrease. I'm not quite sure what has been changed exactly. Hope there will be some experts who knows the thing well stand out to share opinion with us.
If you continue to bump your own old threads like this for no reason, you WILL get banned. Just a friendly headsup.
To survive with Google's latest policies and guidelines you have to make website user friendly. Google loves a website which is loved by Google. Content should be unique, interesting and based on facts. Website navigation should be simple and less ads are above first fold.
Contentvisionz is in perfect agreement with you emily1. Thanks for sharing your view that sharing views was worthy of thanks.
i checked by reputation and this thread gave me 11 positive points... so i just bumped it to make it useful for people out there whom never came across this thread...