We're obviously targeting authoritative sites which do do reviews.

OK... same crappy product getting no authentic reviews.  Suddenly a ton a reviews appear on "authoritative" websites.  Somebody did something to make that happen.

So Google has real people just combing the web for these types of cases? No algo?

They have a really simple algo that catches this stuff.

Product A exists for years and nobody is sayin' anything about it.  Then, BAM, a ton of crappy reviews appear on a bunch of crappy sites..... Somebody did somethin' to make that happen - especially when those reviews appear on sites that do not make a practice of reviewing products.   Engineers not required.

I am confident that the images make a great impression on visitors.  Just, would some assessment done by Google, for example, Panda see them as non-content above the fold.

You never know what google is doing.

Sometimes I have wonderful images that are relevant to the topic of an article and become part of the article's content.

I have been posting them below the

but above the content of the article.  These images are big and beautiful and I am certain that people like them.

But, I honestly have the same question that you have.  Is this pushing text content down "TOO FAR FOR GOOGLE"?   I honestly think that my visitors enjoy these images... but they don't determine the rankings of my pages in search.

I think that it would be nice to see more.... "This was my problem, and here is how I fixed it" posts on YouMoz.

Keep up the great work!

Nice work!

I used to live in a town that had a couple thousand people..  It was the largest town in the county.  The county was large enough that it would take 1.5 hours to drive from the northwest corner to the southeast corner - not because the distance was that great - but because there were few good roads in that direction.  Many of the people lived on an unpaved road and most of the people had a well instead of water service.

In the entire county there was one tiny hospital, a few grocery stores and enough stoplights that you could count them on your fingers.  But there were more campsites than residents and the population of the county would double the day before the first day of deer hunting or trout season.

If you had a healthcare emergency you better be right with God.  It could be an hour before an ambulance gets to you and another hour before you get to a tiny hospital with a couple GPs and one surgeon and then transferred to the hospital of a small city another hour away.

In some parts of the United States people use town and city names when they talk about where they live or where things are located or where they are going.  These people usually live in towns and cities and that is how they think about places.

However, many people live in rural areas - not in any town or city.  These people often use counties, instead of cities when they talk about where they live or where they are going.

The lower the population density the more likely they are going to use counties instead of towns and cities.  Why?  Because the tiny towns and cities where they live are unknown to most people.  Everyone has heard of Pittsburgh and Cleveland but nobody has heard of Gassaway and Erbacon, yet they probably know the name of the county if they live in that region.

People who live in cities "don't get it" when they hear rural people talking about what county they are from... but people who live in rural areas understand city people talking about what city they are from.  This shows that rural people are smarter when it comes to geographic locations. 

lol....  Something like that might get fantastic action if it is on one of the big newspaper sites.

TheDude:  Thanks for sharing this information.  Sorry that this has not worked as expected.

I am surprised that the spectacular prize has not produced a spectacular impact.  Really puzzling when free money isn't like throwing gasoline on a fire.

Good luck.

I do this on lots of pages.  LOTS.

Many of my pages have an

title

at the top of the page and a short description beneath it.  That short description is also used as my meta description.  Sometimes I add a few extra words if it is short.  I don't think that this hurts me a bit in the search engines.

My client purchased over 500 URLs...

OMG!   I would allow at least 400 of them to expire and buy beer with the savings. 

It's impossible for you to take the time and effort on each domain, so the entire campaign will suffer. Instead focus on a single domain, and build that up to cover the areas you want to.

I am in complete agreement with William.  I would work on one site and only use a second domain when my main site was killing the SERPs for a specific topic area (not a keyword - a whole topic area).