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Many SEOs ignore the simple stuff. For example, don't neglect RSS feed issues or your sites ranking will suffer.

Keep your links relevant, your content original, and always avoid using aggressive page sculpting if you want to rank high in Google.

Now the googlebots are more efficient and effective at spotting bad sites and making the search experience better.

Google has publicly announced that they are trying to level the playing field of SEO by penalizing over optimization.

Keep focuses on high quality and unique content instead of trying to optimize for the algos. Low quality content on some parts of the site can harm the entire site if you're not careful.

One negative mark against your site is having too many ads on it. This is one way the algorithims distinguish high quality sites from low quality sites.

First and foremost, you want your site to be an authoritative source of information with comprehensive data and insightful analysis and facts.

Anything unique and original will send positive ranking signals to Google including original research, analysis and information.

Try your best to avoid stylistic or spelling errors. These are important ranking signals. Also watch out for factual errors in your site.

In fact, this is the prime objective of all algo changes. You always want to avoid at all costs writing duplicate content that overlaps various pages on your website. Redundancy is a key signal to the algorithims.

Panda is designed to algorithmically assess your website's quality. In fact, this is the prime objective of all algo changes.

For those SEOs negatively impacted by Panda, you should always stick with the basics.  Focus on providing the best user experience, and the algorithim changes will work themselves out.