WebmasterWorld’s administrator, Tedster, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld that takes a deeper look at the May Day update by looking at sites that should be impacted by the update and were not.

Tedster does something you rarely see at a WebmasterWorld thread and picks apart a specific site that is doing well. Then you have some really well-known and respected SEOs come in and discuss why those sites are doing well in the May Day update and others are not.

He posted, in part:

The goal, figure out why these sites are doing well in Google and replicate it so your scraper can do well also.

Here are some, not all, of the responses on what some top SEOs feel is working for these sites:

He then says this is similar to Google Place Pages.

Finally, Aaron Wall:

This discussion and thread is just going to get better, so keep an eye on it.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Update: I didn’t realize that this thread was private. Now that I posted the quotes, removing them doesn’t make sense (it is out there in the feeds already). Trust me, there is a ton more discussion in the thread. I only pulled out excerpts from the thread – so this is one reason to become a paid member of WebmasterWorld.