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Yes, I agree, I feel that my page 1 placement was more due to my searches based on my geographic location.  That is my biggest concern at the moment, that other customers in my area are not finding my site anymore.

I'll definitely remove those footer links that serve very little purpose other than to direct users to content that they can get from the main navigation.

To get a better idea of how Panda works, or Google Search Algo in general...  does it look at my site as a "whole" when it scores the value of sending users to my index page?

For pages on my site that obviously are only meant as a "product" with simple photo, sku and price.  Does that mean it would see it as very thin content, and penalize my site as a whole?

@cooper-12 Hi Gregory, thanks for taking the time to look. So the part that concerns me is about the https://www.stephita.com line, it shows stephita.com again, when I compare other SERP they show the title tag, or something different. I'm just wondering what part does Google parse to populate that part? So this is next to my FAV ICON graphic

Thanks for giving me a better understanding of how Panda works.

I agree, I'm targeting my local market, but I noticed when using "google.ca" (vs. .com)  Searching for the keywords "wedding invitations" (without Toronto), does yield a few of my local competitors (along with the big boys like vistaprint) that have leapfrogged me this past year....

So if my site had, hypothetically speaking, 1000s of product pages, but with a simple one line description, along with photo and price to be simple.  Would Google penalize me for having THIN content then?

Lastly, does PageRank matter anymore?  My site was a PR3 - does that matter when the other local competitors that have leapfrogged me are all PR1s?

I'll make an effort to improve the THIN content pages.  Assuming I've "fixed" all issues that the Panda Algo doesn't like - how "soon/long" would it take to be "out of demotion".  Is it re-calculated daily, or only when there are Panda updates (how often?)?

Is there anyway to flag a "product page" so that Panda wouldn't look at it?  I'm just thinking in the case where I create 1000 product display pages, does that mean I would really need to write 1000 content HEAVY pages?  --  Sorry, I just realized there is the META NOINDEX method...

If my site is built 80% product pages, and I suddenly add the NOINDEX meta tag, will that negatively impact the result?  Or would that benefit me in this situation?  It was never my intention for any searchers to land on any direct product page.  My main focus for any searchers is to reach my main index page.

Is there a "magic number" of number of words to make it a suitable content page?  (i.e. NOT-THIN)

I really appreciate you helping me out with this!

As always, I appreciate your knowledgeable feedback on these issues.

I'm cleaning up my site, and removing some of the 'black-hat' SEO techniques that I had thought worked 5 years ago...  I had created a script to generate "doorway" pages on my site.

i.e., if you searched "wedding invitations" + random city, like "wedding invitations thornhill, wedding invitations richmond hill, wedding invitations brampton, etc...

http://www.stephita.com/wedding/invitations/thornhill

http://www.stephita.com/wedding/invitations/richmond+hill

http://www.stephita.com/wedding/invitations/brampton

My site is listed on the first page for most of these "wedding invitation city" type searches.

Assuming my site has already been "Panda Demoted", does it make sense that these links are still on the first page for those "long tail searches"?  Is it because of these specific pages that my site's index page (www.stephita.com) has been demoted in SERP when searching for the broader "wedding invitations" locally?  ** I hope I am making sense here **

I used to have links in the footer and sitemap that would lead crawlers to these "doorway pages", but I have removed all traces of it from the site now.  How long will the pre-existing indexed pages live in their results?  Should I take steps to pro-actively remove them?