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by Dave Guiri
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Hi guys,
I've only been seriously building IM sites a few months but have bought several excellent .co domains for a few local keywords. The keywords have stiff competition but i think i can break into the market if i try.

I don't intend to use these domains seriously for at least 1-2 years due to current workloads but was wondering if i should setup a blog on them and post a few articles each month to help its PR in the long run.

Good idea or not??
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Murdaugh
    Yeah.

    If you want to develop them for SEO purposes, as of now (and I'd guess in 2 years) there's a LOT of value in having aged domains with regularly updated content as opposed to undeveloped domains.

    Especially if you're wanting to rank for semi-competitive terms in the future, I'd definitely put some time into at least developing a little bit on some level in the mean time.

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  • Profile picture of the author SEOThomas
    Age = Authority and Power

    So yes build the websites as blogs and try to post every so often
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Much better to have some content on them than not. Even if you can't fully develop them, just posting some unique content to them once a month or even once every couple of months will increase their value.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Guiri
    Thanks everyone for your answers, makes perfect sense. I have 3 domains to cover 3 good keywords, would the fact that they come from the same host nameservers mean their link value to each other is nullified?

    How does everyone keep on top of producing a lot of unique content without outsourcing? I've heard of content spinning software but never fully believed in them. This seems to be my current challenge.
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  • Profile picture of the author youngsiteowner
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    Based on what I have learned, you should download WordPress on each and write at least 500 words of good SEO'd content about your topic. Then you should go and get at least 10 quality backlinks.

    That is what should get your site ranked in Google and you should have a page rank in a year.

    If I were you, I would write at least 1,000 words of good content instead of 500.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Johns
    I would definitely install Wordpress on them and start posting to them - even one a week or every couple of weeks will be good enough.

    Do some basic SEO on it too and a bit of link building and when you come to use them they should be decent authority sites.

    Good luck with it!

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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Guiri
    Setting the sites up and putting good content is fine, although my content rate is slow, i feel like i need to lock myself away to knock out 20 articles a month. Does the level of PR ranking from the initial links have any boost effect on the sites rank?, i've seen quite a few sites that have less links but rank PR2 quickly. And many others with more links but spread out PR1-3 and they only rank PR1.

    Would 10 PR3 links on top of good content kickstart it?, and then follow up each month with a quality article. Does everyone buy high PR links initially?, i'm waiting for my current sites to gain more "authority" so feel i may need to buy some good quality initial links.

    Sorry for all the questions, i'm just starting out and have been sitting in front of my computer for months learning and slowly building my sites and collection of domains.
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