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Our homepage has a few hundred links and our index pages(pages that link to our spintext pages) have about 900 links on them with no content.  Our SEO guy said we have to keep the links under 1000 but I wanted to see what you guys think.

I thought Panda was in July, this appears to be around mid Aug that the drop occurred.

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Yes, we have 1.2m pages with content generated from spintext like algorithms.  I'm not in charge of our SEO strategy I'm the one that has to develop it but when i hear them blaming load times(my problem) instead of content(their problem) it really makes me question how well they're really doing.  I've been trying to tell our "expert" load times are not the issue but yet he keeps coming back to us with that instead of changes to the content.

I'm pretty sure they indexed about double of that at one point and then the pages that appeared in their index cut in half one day. Again our SEO guy told us this was normal and that we need to speed up the pages and release more pages.

We have around 1.3m total pages, Google currently crawls on average 87k a day and our average page load is 1.7 seconds.  Out of those 1.3m pages(1.2m being "spun up") google has only indexed around 368k and our SEO person is telling us that if we speed up the pages they will crawl the pages more and thus will index more of them.

I personally don't believe this. At 87k pages a day Google has crawled our entire site in 2 weeks so they should have all of our pages in their DB by now and I think they are not index because they are poorly generated pages and it has nothing to do with the speed of the pages.  Am I correct?  Would speeding up the pages make Google crawl them faster and thus get more pages indexed?