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Is This a Good Strategy?

by Carl Brown
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While evaluating my competition, I see about.com has a ton of pages competing for my niche. When I looked at more than a few of their pages, I'm finding a large number of them are just a paragraph (less than 50 words) and some are just a sentence!

They fill up the rest of the page with links to related pages on their site and a few off site links and the rest is adsense ads.

Those 1 paragraph pages rank well for the keyword (assuming the keyword is the title).

Each individual page's links seem to be almost completely INTERNAL links--the way wikipedia does it.

This looks like a great way to add 50 pages a day! I'm thinking about churning out 50 pages a day this way literally. I can always go back and add more content to each page.

A good strategy?
#good #strategy
  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

    While evaluating my competition, I see about.com has a ton of pages competing for my niche. When I looked at more than a few of their pages, I'm finding a large number of them are just a paragraph (less than 50 words) and some are just a sentence!

    They fill up the rest of the page with links to related pages on their site and a few off site links and the rest is adsense ads.

    Those 1 paragraph pages rank well for the keyword (assuming the keyword is the title).

    Each individual page's links seem to be almost completely INTERNAL links--the way wikipedia does it.

    This looks like a great way to add 50 pages a day! I'm thinking about churning out 50 pages a day this way literally. I can always go back and add more content to each page.

    A good strategy?
    I have also seen plenty of large store websites like amazon, best buy,walmart and many more rank pages with just a couple sentences product descriptions.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeshinobi
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  • Profile picture of the author CherylMorgan
    Good point..Can be incorporated.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Ray
    If you're churning out junk/spam, then Google will notice a footprint... Keywords that go to low quality pages are beatable. Really, About.com carries a lot of weight because of it's authority status. But it isn't 'about' your keyword.

    Build authority content about your niche and get relevant backlinks.

    If you're planning to put out 50 pages of junk every day, I would say that it's a bad strategy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michel Modo
    I never see those pages like what you say.
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  • Profile picture of the author intergen
    Yes having lots of pages indexed by Google is a good thing and is definitely part of their algo's. But a proper linking structure is also key. Amazon and Wikipedia do so well due to their linking scheme's and patterns.

    Check out how they link to other recommended pages on Amazon and how Wikipedia has several links to other pages on Wikipedia. I have a free on page SEO guide in my sig file below that goes over internal linking strategies such as these.
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