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Getting started, should I setup my domains with unfinished content?

by fredzhing
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Hi,
I'm quite new to the world of internet marketing and I'm learning lots each day. First thank you WF community for a all the great posts, it has helped me a lot so far.

My situation:
I have scouted some niches. Grabbed some good domains on the topics.
I hear that domain aging is important. So while I'm still working to get the content done, I'd like to start the aging.

So my thought was, setup a blog with a few posts around the topic (no high quality content yet) with some adsense.

Or create an astore with products in the niche.

Should I do this? I am not expecting any big cash from it but it would help me getting started, learn the analytics tools etc. once some traffic starts dropping in.

But what about the evil google bots. I assume they will somehow find my pages, see that there is some content and maybe decide that it's crap. Fine for me I don't expect anymore yet. But how does that influence my sites future? Will the search engines hit me with some kind of punishment that even if I add super high value content later on they will think "hey thats the website with the content_crap_flag, set the default ranking to -10000 and have it work the score back up to 0+ first before we even consider the page again?

I hear Domain Parking does not count as aging? is this true?

Any other ideas what I should do in this situation?

Thank you for your time.
kind regards
Fred
#content #domains #setup #started #unfinished
  • Profile picture of the author lionking654
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    At first welcome to WF. Ok now U have domain.. so R U hosting it in any hostings service like hostgator or someother?

    And reagrding content, U can just create posts normally, google just wont see your keywords in your content, instead keywords plays a vital role in Title, anchor links and most importantly backlinks.

    After writng some posts in your newly site, create articles and keep a link back to your newly site, so the more U have backlinks, the more U will get benefitted for ur site (most importantly high PR backlinks)
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    • Profile picture of the author Wills
      Just go and get stuck in and learn by your mistakes. Even if you feel the content isn't great, do you really think the google bots are going to know that?

      They are only a machine after all, it is the human eyes you want to try and worry about.

      No website is perfect, so for the starting: the sooner the better. You will learn a lot faster that way.
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    • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
      I don't think Googlebots can really tell if content is crap or has spelling mistakes or poor grammar so don't worry about them it's about your visitors not bots. It helps when the spelling is good or the grammar correct, but there are a lot of people out there whose second language is obviously English who do perfectly well.

      Just go ahead, set your blog up and experiment. Your content will probably be quality up to some of the sites I've seen, but I call good information and your thoughts laid out in a way that people can understand quality.

      Rather than publish all of your content at once it's best to use the schedule feature so that you keep the search engines happy with regular updates. Add an astore too, videos, images, whatever to make it interesting.

      Google slap, sandboxing don't worry. Initially I get a site or blog to rank in the top 10 within hours, then they drop into a black hole for a while until Google decides where it wants it to go and that's normal. Invariably they end up back in the top ten after a few days, sometimes weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author iamsuneel
    If you are not scraping content and you are following good spelling and grammar rules, then Google will not slap you.

    Many SEO professionals have affirmed that Google is looking out for grammar mistakes too in order to judge the quality of the articles. So, check that your articles no matter if they are rewritten have considerably good grammar and spellings.

    Sandboxing might not be confirmed by many people around, but it might be referred to as Google slap. It is there so watch out for it.

    Always prepare 5-10 articles beforehand and use drip feeding to get valid credibility.

    Dont forget Google webmasters.

    And also do not forget other search engines. Google is not God.
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  • Profile picture of the author Taruru
    Hi
    I am in the same dilemma, just starting out, and tripping along the way. The answers are quite informative and hope to make some greater headway over time.

    Regards.
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  • Profile picture of the author fredzhing
    Thank you all. Maybe I'm a bit too concerned before hand.

    But what about domain history. If somebody has a domain e.g. topcontent.xy was using the domain to host abusive, bad grammar and scraped content. now some other guy buys the domain and starts a good quality website with the domain, is that a fresh start for a search engine or is the history somehow playing a role?

    From what I have read, google is now punishing content farms with lots of poor quality content. So somehow the machine must be able to determine whats low quality and what is high quality.
    Thats why I am wondering if the ranking by a search engine is always calculated as a snapshot of the current content at the time of checking or if there are some history effects too.

    But you are right, I should just start. But I think I will not use my premium domain and niche to experiment, I'll save them for when I actually know most of what I am doing :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
      Originally Posted by fredzhing View Post

      Thank you all. Maybe I'm a bit too concerned before hand.

      But what about domain history. If somebody has a domain e.g. topcontent.xy was using the domain to host abusive, bad grammar and scraped content. now some other guy buys the domain and starts a good quality website with the domain, is that a fresh start for a search engine or is the history somehow playing a role?
      You can check domains in the wayback machine Internet Archive: Wayback Machine to see if they have previously been used and what for. Also do a search site:yourdomain a few days after you have set it up and added your sitemap to google etc. if you find your domain has been deindexed for any reason then make sure that it complies with what google wants and apply for it to be reindexed. But it's unlikely you will have this problem so stop worrying.

      Originally Posted by fredzhing View Post

      From what I have read, google is now punishing content farms with lots of poor quality content. So somehow the machine must be able to determine whats low quality and what is high quality.
      Thats why I am wondering if the ranking by a search engine is always calculated as a snapshot of the current content at the time of checking or if there are some history effects too.
      Google has been rearranging things rather than punishing and it's the human eye that can detect differences in quality. From what I gather the most relevant effect to us is that when you post your content, even if it gets scraped and copied your site or the first that it is posted on will end up top of the heap for that content and that is good. Unless you are planning to post poor content I really wouldn't worry. Heck there are those who have blogs filled with spinned so many times nobody understands it content and they don't seem to have been affected.

      Originally Posted by fredzhing View Post

      But you are right, I should just start. But I think I will not use my premium domain and niche to experiment, I'll save them for when I actually know most of what I am doing :-)
      Yes please! Personally I would put something on those domains even if it's just the Google for domains thing. My first lot of hosting disappeared on me and I hadn't backed up my sites. It was about a year before I rebuilt one of my domains and found it had been deindexed during that time, it took quite a while to get it indexed again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Torreylee
    I usually do publish SOMETHING just to get the aging process started if I just bought a bunch of nice domains, but I have never left one for more than a month before I really get to work on it. But for me it only takes an hour or so to get some original content up, as long as it original you will be in good shape and just come back later and put in the good stuff.
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