"1. Google is VERY smart about how people can try to game the system and they WILL NOT RANK pages with low content value--you know this!"<p>If that was <i>actually</i> true then perhaps you would have more full time in-house editorial staff (instead of canning them all). If that was <i>actually</i> true then perhaps I wouldn't see any of your scraped pages ranking in the search results. If that was <i>actually</i> true then you wouldn't be scraping 3rd party content into almost all your pages.<p>But its <i>not</i> true...and so we are back at the beginning again.