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Based on what seems like a general agreement that the Panda update has modified Google's algorithm and on page metrics such as Bounce rate, Time on Site & Page views per visit are now vital to a websites rankings.

What methods are you using to improve these metrics? Have they worked?

They didn't transcribe that video

I'll have to make time to watch it. thanks.

Thnak You for answering.

"- the sites which were linking to your site have been devalued,"

What would cause all these other sites that were linking to me, to be devalued by the seomoz linkscape algorithm? besides -some sites which were linking to those sites stopped linking to them.

If so, then there must be a global decrease of links? Did everyone remove their links? Maybe this is the general nature of the web, blogs get deleted.

I guess I'm asking, what other factors does the seomoz linkscape algorithm use besides links to determine domain authority.

Unless there has recently been a decrease of value attributed to links from low quality sites such as WordPress blogs and Blogger. I do have lots of links from blogs.

Currently my Domain Authority is at 36, I believe earlier this week it was at 39 and a few months ago it was 41 but I have no way of checking the Domain Authority history.

Why would my website's Domain Authority go down like this? I was hit pretty hard (well not so hard compared to other sites, but It feels pretty hard) by Panda 2.0 and I have been making many changes.

However, I am 301 redirecting the few removed pages.

All paginated pages (page 2,3 etc of each category) I have changed to "noindex, follow" meta tags.

For all "thin content' pages I am also using "noindex, follow". And all possible duplicated content I am also using "noindex, follow".

So the link juice should still be flowing. So where is my domain authority going?

Thanks!

What do you mean by category listings? I'm talking about category pages where each item in the category is listed.

I do link from product or item pages to each other using next, previous and related items.

Also I'm pretty sure about this but just asking, rel=canonical for page 2,3 should be that page and not page 1 ?

Thanks for the answer.

Does a link from a page with noindex,follow count as an internal link? Will the items on page 2 receive any link juice, if their only internal link is from a noindexed page?

What do you think?

Is it better to use the robots meta noindex, follow tag for paging, (page 2, page 3) of Category Pages which lists items within each category

or just let Google index these pages

Before Panda I was not using noindex because I figured if page 2 is in Google's index then the items on page 2 are more likely to be in Google's index. Also then each item has an internal link

So after I got hit by panda, I'm thinking well page 2 has no unique content only a list of links with a short excerpt from each item which can be found on each items page so it's not unique content, maybe that contributed to Panda penalty. So I place the meta tag noindex, follow on every page 2,3 for each category page. Page 1 of each category page has a short introduction so i hope that it is enough to make it "thick" content (is that a word :-))  My visitors don't want long introductions, it hurts bounce rate and time on site.

Now I'm wondering if that is common practice and if items on page 2 are less likely to be indexed since they have no internal links from an indexed page

Thanks!

if you don't want search engines to see the links, for example if you are concerned about too many links on the page,  then put the links in a JavaScript file and block it with robots.txt

Search engines can crawl regular javascript, whether they do or not, and how this will impact your site is not known.

Look for "browser and OS" on the left side menu of Google Analytics. under browsers

Currently my Domain Authority is at 36, I believe earlier this week it was at 39 and a few months ago it was 41 but I have no way of checking the Domain Authority history.

Why would my website's Domain Authority go down like this? I was hit pretty hard (well not so hard compared to other sites, but It feels pretty hard) by Panda 2.0 and I have been making many changes.

However, I am 301 redirecting the few removed pages.

All paginated pages (page 2,3 etc of each category) I have changed to "noindex, follow" meta tags.

For all "thin content' pages I am also using "noindex, follow". And all possible duplicated content I am also using "noindex, follow".

So the link juice should still be flowing. So where is my domain authority going?

Thanks!