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Building An Authority Site: Preloaded Content Or Build Up Over Time?

by hyderkhan
7 replies
Hello,

I am in the process of setting up a Wordpress blog which I hope to build into an "authority site" (a site which has 100+ pages).

I plan on doing this by taking 100+ Ezinearticles I had written for this particular niche and loading them as blog posts on my own Wordpress blog.

The site is not yet live. It's still under construction.

Now here's my question:

Should I...

a) preload all 100+ Ezinearticles to my website and THEN open it for business?


b) preload maybe just 10 Ezinearticles, open it up for business, and then schedule the remaining 90 to be published gradually over the next 180 days or so?

Which one is better for SEO purposes?
Will Google sandbox me if they crawl my new site and see that it already has 100+ pages on it?

Which one is better from a user experience perspective?
Will users like to see a fully loaded site with 100+ pages, or do you think it might be better to gradually add content to the site, so that visitors (such as those who might either subscribe to my RSS feed or who might join my opt-in mailing list) will see the new content being added gradually?

Does it matter?

(By "open for business", I mean get my site indexed / get at least one back link to the site so that live traffic can start flowing to it.)

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Money
    Do it nice and slowly, nice and gradual. I've noticed this definitely helps in getting great organic LSI traffic--like extremely long tail keywords. I'd say make a post a day for a few weeks then once every couple of days.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I would definitely go for option B. I might also point out that 100 pages does not an authority site make. The content has to be solid and regular. If you want to truly build an authority site then your job is never done.
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  • Profile picture of the author Manuelcrc
    Rehashing a hundred articles does not make you an authority. Period.
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  • Profile picture of the author Victor Edson
    Taking articles that are already indexed on another website and putting them on yours won't make you an authority. On the contrary, it will make your site appear as it's scraping content, and a spam site.

    If you want to build an authority site, start off posting as MUCH as you want, then post 1-2 times per day for a few months and then back off to about 1 per day for a while, then settle at what ever amount you choose so that you're constantly putting out quality content.

    You can also use ghost writers to help grow your site, but make sure everything you're uploading is 100% unique content... THAT's what search engines are looking for if you want to be an authority site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Honest Abel
      I think things often boil down to this:

      Search engine programmers <try> to design the engine to favor sites that do things naturally - that show a natural pattern.

      This includes growing the site. If the pattern is natural, the search engines will favor it. This also includes how a site starts out. It isn't natural IMHO to start a site with 100+ pages.

      To me, it always makes sense to ask yourself if what you are doing shows a natural or an unnatural pattern.

      My two cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Hudson
    If you plan on using those articles, maybe consider hiring humanspinner folks to do a re-write before publishing. It may be worth your while to do this in the time of the farmer update. I would if it were me, and drip feed over time the spun versions. I would also add my own hired content or articles written by my own hand to mix things up a bit..just my 2 cents

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  • Profile picture of the author links900
    Well from my experience i can say that this approach is better,

    1. Make 15 to 20 articles pages in the inital go and also point out to authority sites from those pages.
    2. Do make conatct us,about us,privacy policy etc while launching
    3. Then Let the google bot crawl the site.
    4. Start adding contents regularly.may be every day or every other day.This will invite google bot again and again.
    5. Do it for three months and have patiance.You will surely start seeing results after 3 months or may be litlle earlier


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