The "mugshot site" thread round here reminded me of this: I notice although they are less prevalent in the SERPS these days (Panda knocked a lot of them out), so-called "database sites" are still very common, and there must be people making a killing with these. What is a database site? It is basically where you leverage a massive dataset that you have got, scraped, downloaded from somewhere (they can be bought on certain IM forums), like a list of all the cities of the world, or a list of all the world's hotels, to basically generate a database-driven site which doesn't really provide that much in terms of extra value or functionality but has a huge number of pages.
“Database sites” - people are still basically getting away with it (and earning a mint)?
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The "mugshot site" thread round here reminded me of this: I notice although they are less prevalent in the SERPS these days (Panda knocked a lot of them out), so-called "database sites" are still very common, and there must be people making a killing with these.
What is a database site? It is basically where you leverage a massive dataset that you have got, scraped, downloaded from somewhere (they can be bought on certain IM forums), like a list of all the cities of the world, or a list of all the world's hotels, to basically generate a database-driven site which doesn't really provide that much in terms of extra value or functionality but has a huge number of pages.
For example, the cities sites typically create a page for each city, add a Google map, add a weather forecast for the city, latitude and longitude information and, er, that's about it. And in the absence of any other content to rank for "Crmničko Polje, Montenegro", these kinds of pages are still ranking, and probably cumulatively (these sites can have MILLIONS of pages) bringing in a great deal of traffic.
So come on, come clean you people, who is doing this, and are you or are you not banking all the way to the Seychelles with it? And also how are you getting away with putting Adsense on these sites which are basically thinner than a wet piece of tissue paper?
What is a database site? It is basically where you leverage a massive dataset that you have got, scraped, downloaded from somewhere (they can be bought on certain IM forums), like a list of all the cities of the world, or a list of all the world's hotels, to basically generate a database-driven site which doesn't really provide that much in terms of extra value or functionality but has a huge number of pages.
For example, the cities sites typically create a page for each city, add a Google map, add a weather forecast for the city, latitude and longitude information and, er, that's about it. And in the absence of any other content to rank for "Crmničko Polje, Montenegro", these kinds of pages are still ranking, and probably cumulatively (these sites can have MILLIONS of pages) bringing in a great deal of traffic.
So come on, come clean you people, who is doing this, and are you or are you not banking all the way to the Seychelles with it? And also how are you getting away with putting Adsense on these sites which are basically thinner than a wet piece of tissue paper?
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