Is This a Good Strategy?

by Carl Brown Posted: 14 years ago 7 replies

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?

#search engine optimization #good #strategy

nest28 14 years ago

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.
mikeshinobi Banned 14 years ago

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- Carl Brown 14 years ago
  
  I'm one of those few who get sarcasm over the web.
- TotalWebsiteControl 14 years ago
  
  Of course they do :]
CherylMorgan 14 years ago

Good point..Can be incorporated.
Daniel Ray 14 years ago

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.
Michel Modo 14 years ago

I never see those pages like what you say.
intergen 14 years ago

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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Is This a Good Strategy?

Carl Brown • 14 years ago • 7 replies

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.