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Originally Posted by epitome
That isn't always the answer though ... here is a weird example I have of my own:
I have a tube that has videos and keywords. Nothing more. It has increased in rankings.
I have another tube where I carefully wrote good descriptions without keyword spamming. It lost rankings.
It's things like that which leave me scratching my head. I thought unique content was good? Tube A is way less unique than tube B yet it is outperforming it!
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"the answer" now is more vague (to us) than ever. only google knows whats really up but all of their responses to panda have been about user experience and satisfaction. so something about your site that gained rankings may be what goog is judging to be a better user experience. keywords or the lack thereof may not be the deciding factor between those two examples - unless they are in all other ways identical
but even then... google has been tweaking and rolling out these changes frequently. i believe they said the new panda results weren't gonna settle for a couple of months? so everything is shaken up now, could be your site that's winning today may be losing in a few months (knock on wood
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