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reading through grind's thread, and hearing about the "good" sites ranking best...

What exactly does a "good" site consist of? You guys have a checklist or something?

WebableTrev

What I look at is unique content.

Pages indexed in google, more is better, the more unique content on the pages the better.

Alexa rank, its somewhat useful to determine traffic. Traffic unique views and page views are important. One unique view = one person, ideally.

Page rank, this is a big factor for determining your listing in google for keywords. The higher the page rank the better the website ranks for keywords. Ever wonder why wikipedia is on the top of nearly every word? They have huge page rank (8 or 9 I believe) because all their sources are no follow and have tons of internal and external links.

Revenue, a website with a great click through rate is good to have. If 500 out of 1000 people buy/click/use whatever it is you want them to that is an incredible website.

Speed, fast loading pages.

Graphics, if it looks good bonus.

Seo look in the urls if you see things like www.mysite.com/fourms.thread1223123231232.html thats bad.

Looking at Wicked fire you see http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-que...good-site.html

Thats good because now if someone searches "fundamental properties good site" it has a chance in google.

Well thats all I can think of right now.

WebableTrev

Just for Lulz:

Jingo

A good site would primarily look clean and appealing.

Not a site filled up with a lot of stuff... and just putting you off.

It should be easy to navigate. All sections properly silo-ed and linked so you can find your way around.

Unique content is a must but it should be good and readable... well not just readable but informative and engaging to some extent.

It should be atleast 40 -50 pages, 100 or more would be preferred.

PR and age of domain would obviously help.

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"Good" is still going to be a subjective term in most regards, but here's how I see it...

I have a general checklist to refer to kinda like Trev said. Fast loading pages, lots of unique content, easy to navigate, etc. All the stuff that makes a site useful and usable. You could even go through that Google document leaked earlier this year (their updated manual review guidelines) to create a checklist. Really, what better checklist than Google's own?!

Then each item would have sub-items based on the site's topic. For example, sometimes good content only requires highly useful articles, but sometimes it means infographics, expert interviews, how to articles, resource lists, calculators, tools, etc.

Also, take a look at sites you absolutely love. Perhaps Amazon.com, but also the top sites in whatever niche you're targeting. (If you don't know the niche, scrape some related forums and see what sites people link to frequently.) Then make a list of everything you like about those sites. Make sure your niche site has all the features of the best sites in that niche, then try to add even more features based on top sites you've seen in other niches.

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