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Yup Paddy is right.

I would read this blog post about PageRank Sculpting that Matt Cutts wrote http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

And I also found this video useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IE4WLPLZQ&feature=share&list=PL841CB8F9F31BF5D5

Just found this through the search and wanted to say it was really helpful, saved me the time of asking myself and waiting for replies

Good question!

Google will boost the ranking of new content posted for a small amount of time because of this"freshness update".

It was explained really well by these legands http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-freshness-update-whiteboard-friday.

Also check this out http://justinbriggs.org/methods-for-evaluating-freshness.

So in answer to your question (and I'm no "expert" so this is just my opinion) keep posting new content regularly to rank for those keywords where google are knocking you after 1-2 weeks, and see it as a way to drive traffic.

I don't know of any other way, maybe someone can share some further insights

In your example the links that do not have the nofollow attribute would get 20 each.

Well actually it would be something like 19.5 each because they take a tiny bit off everytime it's passed on (otherwise the system wouldnt work mathematically).

Paddys Displays is correct, ignore what I'm saying if I'm confusing you - apologies.

There are a few good ones. Check out the link profile of www.housebuyfast.co.uk (my website) for an idea of the ones I have used.

No worries

We release property every week and I do a blog post about each one, probably 2-5 properties each week then smash it out via social media (facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc). This seems to work quite nicely, though I only have to sell it once to be fair.

After this, we will also email the property out (with new content from that week), this gives that page a massive boost in traffic, which definitely slows down the process of dropping off the rankings, in my opinion.

So perhaps do a weekly email about new products and include some relative content in the email as well (as Matt said, link to the products in the content too!)

Doing this I have been steadily climbing up the rankings for my main keyword, last week I went up 15 ranks according to SEOmoz Pro! (It’s been about a month or two since I started doing this).

I think my main problem is that the site has a lot of old pages. Also the main pages need a bit of on-page optimization, so this may be something to look at as well J

I hope you can view this. . .

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/advanced-wordpress-seo

I watched it just the other day, it was awesome

We have the same problem as well. They've been ranking for a long time with dodgy tactics.

Totally agree with EGOL though, staying clean is the key, play long term!

Lots of good signs in Webmasters with impressions and crawl stats

Hey,

Unless there is a specific reason for not using a plugin I would install Yoasts SEO plugin. It is much easier to manage all the meta stuff with.

Here is a link: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

It's also totally free

You can read more about the meta discription on the offical google website here

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812

They do use meta description, though bear in mind they don't have to. So you will find that in some rsearch results they will change it.

You can read (and watch a video) about the meta keywords here

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

That's Matt Cutts, who is head of web spam at google.

Hope that clear things up for you!

That's why I'm probably not getting listed then! Haha