I'm not sure "penalized" is the right word. Perhaps "ignored" is better. Google doesn't want duplicate content in its index, so it tries to figure out which site holds the original text.

You can...

If you just want to build sites that will make tons of money from Google ads, then you need to build sex/relationship sites (not porn), pharmecutical/drug sites, and well, look in your spam folder. ...

Many sites have tens of thousands of articles/tutorials/etc. So no, I don't think you can overdo that. Every page is a potential landing page for a visitor who was searching on Google.

There are...

That's pages per visit, not hits? Wow. That's really, really incredible. You have a very sticky site. I'm going to stop by and try to learn from you.

-T

If he's going to manage the PPC campaign himself, then he's smart to be allergic to it. However, if you're proposing to run it for him, then he's crazy to assume that his limitations apply to you...

For one of my sites, 7.59 pages/visit.

-Tony

I wrote a few posts a while ago that outlined things I was doing to keep members & get better conversions. Here's a recap:

Remove barriers to entry. When I put my site up for review on a few...

My site is smaller than yours. I run a forum site with only about 2000 members. I also have a couple technology sites. Here are the things that caused a rise in traffic:


PR Web press release...

If your service really is for posting resumes, I imagine that you'll get eaten alive by the big fish in that pond. How will your site compete against monster.com, guru.com, and the 100 other sites...

The numbers work against you, for a while. People see a forum with 25 members (or 100 members) and think, "bah, there is no one here." Later, when you have 5,000 members, people sign up more than...

Don't you need to have the Alexa browser bar installed for Alexa to know what sites you view? I think so.

So, if Alexa saw lots of traffic and then none, wouldn't it be that someone with the...