Quality vs. Quantity - pros and cons

[RobWynkoop]

Hello friends, I am new to posting on the forum, but have been hanging around for a while. I have more than a basic knowledge of SEO strategies. I have had several sites rank on the first page for a variety of different keywords.

Unfortunately, I've never surpassed about 2,500 uniques a month, but I have made a few dollars through Adsense and Amazon affiliate links. I wanted to give you an idea of where I'm at with my IM experience...

Question is this ... I'm thinking about shifting into starting a new site with top quality content only. I was a journalist years ago and have no problems creating thorough, unique content.

I sometimes feel that the low quality (i.e. cheaply outsourced content solely used to create a larger footprint and benefit from search engines) results in less repeat visitors in the long run.

If I were to just focus on blogging about a niche topic and maintained very high standards of journalism and content, combined with high PR backlinking... what is the potential?

I feel like a site like that would make me more proud of the project than just cranking out another niche article site with outsourced low quality articles and mass profile and blog comment links.

Thoughts on this?

[ddDonPaul]

the quality is better of course. you must write for people, not for search engines. this is were most people fail ranking their sites in google. i just made that mistake and i know

[ashleysmith12]

hi
its always the quality if quality is good then you can get high amount of traffic very easily, so rather then low quality and high links trust on good quality links.

[mikeevee]

Definitely quality.

I have tried both.

One of my decent well-written, interesting sites earns more than 100 of my autoblogs added together.

[HorseStall]

The shift with the Panda update is definitely toward QUALITY vs Quantity. Sites with low quality but large quantity were penalized.

[sackboy127]

Indeed, if you provide high quality content on your site, visitors will want to come back for more!

[alexschmidt]

hi,
obviously quality is better than quantity because visitors like to read quality posts and search engine like to see that also. focus more on blogging & do maintain high standards of journalism that you are doing now.
if you have quality posts then people will share it among themselves using facebook, twitter and other social media which will get you more traffic to your website along with good search engine ranking.

[PhilTurpin]

I have been pondering this very same question just recently (as a noob at IM).

It's pleasing to see that people seem to subscribe to the quality over quantity approach (mostly). That was the approach I was expecting to take, myself.

I'd like to throw a slightly different spin on the question, though...

Let's assume that the Panda update hasn't happened and you can still get great results from using the quantity over quantity method. Would you?

I ask merely to satisfy my own curiosity, that's all

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by PhilTurpin

Let's assume that the Panda update hasn't happened and you can still get great results from using the quantity over quantity method. Would you?

Panda has nothing to do with backlinks.

[weheartcontent]

I believe that quality content was the sole reason my Amazon site survived all the updates and was able to rank quite easily despite the competition. So yes, definitely in favor of quality.

[marcell12]

exactly, quality should be given first preference by anyone.

[uoftenwinny]

Quality is the most important thing, when the it's good quality, you can try to add the quantity.

[guillermophilips12]

Originally Posted by ashleysmith12

hi
its always the quality if quality is good then you can get high amount of traffic very easily, so rather then low quality and high links trust on good quality links.

well said, agree with you.