Picking up on a dazzlingdonna comment on seobook, has anyone got any data on fair sized SME sites which have content provision - the sort of 'experts in their field' articles and blogging which a lot of businesses have been using for longtail and differentiation lately? It sounds like some of these may have got caught in the crossfire?
I have no proper US data tracking at the moment but I'd like some warning when this rolls out over here if all those longtails currently sending traffic are going to ditch, and also I have a few links coming from quality articles (but lets face it, quality in the eyes of google is what counts here) on sites which I wouldn't call content farms exactly but might well end up in the collateral damage field when this rolls out worldwide, so if anyone has info on whether the links are taking a hit when a site drops rankings, that would also give me something else to worry about....