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Taking My Niche Site from 25 to 500 Pages ... How Quick Should I Do it?

by Mangozoom
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Hi Everyone

I have a really good health related niche site that I have decided to take from 25 pages to 500.

The goal is to undertake really intense keyword research for each page and then create content and publish.

I easily managed 5 new pages this week, all really hot keywords, create content with 500 words per page.

Just wondered about the rate at which to publish new pages and what this may do to my existing ranking on Google (I have a lot of page 1 position 1 pages).

So basically if I published too many pages too quickly say 25 per week would Google slap me into oblivion?

If so at what would you suggest I publish pages and why?

Your advice needed

John
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesPenn
    Hi John

    I don't have an answer to your question, but I do have a health site currently at about 120 pages. Google loves (well, not loves, but close) it and I've added a new page approximately every week - maybe even 10 days.

    However, this is mainly due to laziness and I notice that when I add pages more regularly my traffic increases slightly.

    Perhaps we can work together at some point to boost SE rankings and traffic.

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    Originally Posted by John McEachern View Post

    May I ask why you consider this a possibility?
    Some times when I have updated a site before all the rankings dance a little before settling down.

    Just need to check as I am laying my plans.

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
      Hi John,

      I added over 500 articles to my website in 2 months.

      The site was allready indexed and was sitting with one page for it's first month.

      During those 2 months adding content, I made no effort to add backlinks.

      The site continued to climb the index although there were times when it would bounce around.
      I discovered that it was due to lack of my keywors in the articles I had just added.

      Am now slowly going back and putting in keywords in 3 places for each article.

      As of today it is ranked #8 on Google with 72 million broad match keyword.

      Site was registered in June this year.

      That is my experience in building out a site with a lot of content relatively fast.

      Hate to say it will work for you though.

      All the best,
      Ewen
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  • Profile picture of the author Rus Sells
    I don't think it matters to Google at all in regards to a negative penalty! On the contrary, if your adding well written content that benefits your site users how on earth could Google see that as a negative thing?

    I'd get the pages up as quick as I possibly could if I were you! Every day you don't your wasting traffic.

    Just make very sure your site navigation makes it easy for spiders to find all your pages so your linking structure is very very important. Make sure users can quickly find information on your site if they land on your home page. Have a search function and encourage visitors to use it also.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    I regularly build out niche sites with 100+ posts in a very short time, sometimes even at launch if I have all the articles available. I've not seen any problems at all associated with this.

    One thing though to bear in mind is that Googlebot typically won't spider the whole site at once. This is because the 'bot is coded to avoid 'spider traps', an old BH technique used to keep the 'bot on the site indefinitely by automatically creating new pages. Just have HTML and XML sitemaps and the full site will be indexed eventually. Also remember to build links to your internal pages, this helps too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      I regularly build out niche sites with 100+ posts in a very short time, sometimes even at launch if I have all the articles available. I've not seen any problems at all associated with this.

      One thing though to bear in mind is that Googlebot typically won't spider the whole site at once. This is because the 'bot is coded to avoid 'spider traps', an old BH technique used to keep the 'bot on the site indefinitely by automatically creating new pages. Just have HTML and XML sitemaps and the full site will be indexed eventually. Also remember to build links to your internal pages, this helps too.
      Brilliant help ... thank you
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      • Profile picture of the author cnrimgr1
        Curious as to whether there is an seo benefit from pages vs. posts or content is content and nothing else?
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  • Profile picture of the author Anup Mahajan
    I don't think there would be a problem. Google is likely to penalize if the backlinking is done too fast but as far as adding content to the site itself is concerned, there should not be any issues.
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    • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
      Originally Posted by anup.mahajan View Post

      I don't think there would be a problem. Google is likely to penalize if the backlinking is done too fast but as far as adding content to the site itself is concerned, there should not be any issues.
      I'll disagree with part of this statement. It all depends on HOW backlinking is done.

      I do not believe in any way Google will penalize the Wall Street Journal if they have 10,000 people link to an article on their website tomorrow.

      I do not believe Google will penalize Microsoft when they make a major announcement and thousands of sites pick up the news and link to the page on Microsoft's site.

      Likewise, I do not believe Google will ever penalize Microsoft, the U.S. Government, Universities, Amazon, or almost any site which adds hundreds, if not thousands of web pages PER DAY.
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      • Profile picture of the author Anup Mahajan
        Originally Posted by Barry Unruh View Post

        I'll disagree with part of this statement. It all depends on HOW backlinking is done.

        I do not believe in any way Google will penalize the Wall Street Journal if they have 10,000 people link to an article on their website tomorrow.

        I do not believe Google will penalize Microsoft when they make a major announcement and thousands of sites pick up the news and link to the page on Microsoft's site.

        Likewise, I do not believe Google will ever penalize Microsoft, the U.S. Government, Universities, Amazon, or almost any site which adds hundreds, if not thousands of web pages PER DAY.
        But all these are authority sites my friend. If a brand new site with no history gets 50,000 backlinks in a week do you think Google will view it favorably?

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