Deep deep page indexing.

[spock0149]

Hey folks,

I've got a lot of deeeeep pages that have the following type of folder structure:

my_site . com / {niche-area} / {US State} / {US City}

I'm hoping to get picked up by the search engines for when people search for the niche topic in their city and/or state. They've been up for months and just aren't getting indexed. There is unique content on each page.

As you can imagine with the {US State}/{US City} structure I've got several thousand pages, so writing articles for each page is not a realistic way to get indexed.

I was reading a warrior thread that I can't link to just yet, and got some good ideas on indexing.

The following were suggested on the thread:

Stick Adsense on your pages (even if you remove it later) as this forces Google to spider you.
Setup an Adwords campaign to your domain (Google has to spider you to determine your quality score).
Search for your domain name.
Perform site: and link: searches on your domain.
Visit your site using accounts with some of the most widespread ISPs (eg AOL) since their logs are used to find new content.
Email links to your site to and from a Gmail account.
Stick Adsense on your pages (even if you remove it later) as this forces Google to spider you.
Setup an Adwords campaign to your domain (Google has to spider you to determine your quality score).
Search for your domain name.
Perform site: and link: searches on your domain.
Visit your site using accounts with some of the most widespread ISPs (eg AOL) since their logs are used to find new content.
Email links to your site to and from a Gmail account.


For my specific needs - what would any warriors recommend?

I'm thinking the adsense...

[dvduval]

The problem with such a strategy is it is very difficult to produce enough content with such a plan and the end result are lots of stub pages. This is an area that google has addressed in recent years. Some "mash up" type sites have been able to get through, but mostly not. You have to have a really "upscale" mashup going on, or more likely you'll see the stub pages bleed off your pagerank, and the pages won't come up in the serps.

[spock0149]

Hmmm - so this could actually hurt my site. Interesting.

I just read your link in the phplinkdirectory and found the insight valuable. Might try updating some of these pages using the disqus tool you talked of.

Thanks,

Spock

[dvduval]

Originally Posted by spock0149

Hmmm - so this could actually hurt my site. Interesting.

I just read your link in the phplinkdirectory and found the insight valuable. Might try updating some of these pages using the disqus tool you talked of.

Thanks,

Spock

Thank you, yes, Disqus is easy to install and while much of it is in javascript, what it can do is push down your bounce rate. I'm pretty possible Google somehow calculates bounce rate in their algorithm now, but that would be open to argument. Personally, I'm convinced they do.

[spock0149]

Originally Posted by dvduval

Thank you, yes, and while much of it is in javascript, what it can do is push down your bounce rate. I'm pretty possible Google somehow calculates bounce rate in their algorithm now, but that would be open to argument. Personally, I'm convinced they do.

So just the presence of disqus can decrease the chance of negative ranking?

You know, I see a lot of sites I'm in competition with following the stragety that I'm trying to implement, e.g / {niche-area} / {US State} / {US City}.

You think it's possible with a bit of effort with the unique content?