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Can You Get Traffic/Money Off Sheer Content Volume?

by Builder154
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What if you just put up tons and tons and tons of content? Even if if not keyword targeted at all. Would long tails alone add up so much that you would end up with a lot of traffic and could make a significant amount?
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  • Profile picture of the author Bambu
    There many people who use this strategy to bring in traffic.

    The thinking goes like this:
    If you wrote an article a day that targeted a low competition keyword that , for example, receives 200 searches or so a month, and were able to rank these pages in the first position of google, you could expect to get about 2-3 visitors a day per page.

    This doesn't sound like much, but if you do this for a month, your site would be receiving about 60-90 visitors a day. If you kept this up for a year, your site would get 720-1080 visitors a day. If you kept this up for 5 years, well you get the point.

    The key here is to target really low competition long tail keywords. There are some niches where even the long tail (<200 searches a month terms) are super competitive (think payday loans, credit cards, acne, etc). So this method might not work as well there.

    It helps if your site is well interlinked and has high domain authority.
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    • Profile picture of the author Builder154
      Originally Posted by Bambu View Post

      There many people who use this strategy to bring in traffic.

      The thinking goes like this:
      If you wrote an article a day that targeted a low competition keyword that , for example, receives 200 searches or so a month, and were able to rank these pages in the first position of google, you could expect to get about 2-3 visitors a day per page.

      This doesn't sound like much, but if you do this for a month, your site would be receiving about 60-90 visitors a day. If you kept this up for a year, your site would get 720-1080 visitors a day. If you kept this up for 5 years, well you get the point.

      The key here is to target really low competition long tail keywords. There are some niches where even the long tail (<200 searches a month terms) are super competitive (think payday loans, credit cards, acne, etc). So this method might not work as well there.

      It helps if your site is well interlinked and has high domain authority.
      No I'm asking about if you don't even do any keyword targeting at all. You just write and post a lot of blog posts with a lot of content.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by Builder154 View Post

        No I'm asking about if you don't even do any keyword targeting at all. You just write and post a lot of blog posts with a lot of content.
        Just what the warriorforum does, in a similar way.
        Same could be said for amazon, wikipedia, digitalpoint, squidoo, etc.

        Of course I am assuming you mean that you do have some
        topic in mind for each page of content, not just ramblings
        about nothing.

        It depends on if google picks up the site as some sort
        of authoritative/trustworthy/ site. That can happen by
        having the site and stuff on it go viral.

        If you have time, patience, and willing to work hard, it could happen.

        In fact, it's what everyone should be doing, niche or no niche.

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  • Profile picture of the author Builder154
    So does anyone have an answer to this? Can just posting a ton of content end up getting more traffic and income than keyword targeting everything? In the time it takes to keyword research everything you do, you could just write a few more posts and get long tails on all of them?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You could do that but you'll probably end up spending a lot more time creating new content than what you would while researching & creating focused content.

    Just because keywords have massive competition doesn't mean you shouldn't go after those keywords, even If you don't think you'll rank the [exact] keyword phrase, those same pages will pick up some longtail, over time you'll know which longtails are generating good/consistent traffic. Make sure to track the incoming search traffic/keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author Builder154
    Well I've done a few keyword researched sites. They really bored me. I just don't have much interest. And the topics I'm interested in don't have any great keywords to target (I know cause I researched pretty hard, no luck).

    So lately I've been doing nothing. I could be writing a few posts every day on topics I care about. I'd probably end up with hundreds of posts within a year. But they would be totally untargeted, just writing what I actually want to say.

    So the question is whether it's worth doing this. Or whether I'd be better off not wasting my time and doing something else entirely than making websites.
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