How Many Posts a Day is TOO MANY?

I would say a post or two per day would probably be your max. Also, what's the content of these articles? Is it just thin content? If that's the case you're not going to get much benefit regardless.

The only problem I see with that many posts a day is that you might be abusing the pinger.

That would be my worry as well. Producing a few articles at 40-60% unique is one thing. 288 a day at that level and I'd think it would being dangerous. It sounds like you're trying to build too much too fast.

Good sites don't happen overnight.

Surely you jest.

My cloaked domains start out with 150,000-400,00 pages and can produce up to 2,000 new pages per day.

Not only is the 'content' just this side of 'letter soup' but it's... cloaked.

Yet despite the large volume of pages rushed into the index at launch and then further produced per day, the unreadable text and of course the cloaking - I have yet to lose one in over 2 years.

By your logic I should have lost at least a portion of my network and here I sit, still pulling a lot of traffic. "A lot" is 300-1000 unique visitors per site per day per domain I just clicked a button to create.

A manual reviewer would land on my page and define it as 'pure spam' if they didn't just boot it out of the index entirely for cloaking.

I'm speaking from a sample size of over 1k domains, mixed industries - anything from penis enlargement to kitchen appliances.

I suppose I could just be enormously lucky, but I'm laying a much spammier footprint on the basis of content production.

But to the OP: I'm going to assume this is ... semi BH content. I might be wrong, but if I'm not, I would try to randomize the content production is possible. Instead of one post every 5 minutes on the minute, try to batch them up in varying volumes. Something like 2-4 documents every 2-12 minutes, tapered at night if possible. That way your number of new documents per day is randomized as is the creation rate.

If I'm right and you are automatically generating those documents, your software may or may not have the ability to regulate and scale in that way, in which case I'd hunt down something a little more controllable.

It's been the thought in cloaking circles that "Regularity In Creation" itself can be a trackable footprint.

Thanks sir.

Shoot me a PM and we can talk in more detail if it would help. I've been doing the mass-splog (industrial scale spam blogs) thing for years and it sounds like that's where you are going with this project so I'm sure I can offer you a little guidance there. It's generally not for public consumption as the white hat's get... 'emotional.'

That having been said, I wouldn't close the rest of your business to do this. Continue to build lists, produce quality content with other sites, etc. Splogging should only be one part of what you do as a whole and should never form the base of your income.

It's worked for 10+ years, but that doesn't mean it couldn't encounter problems at some point in the future.

This is semi-true when it comes to splogs. It's desirable to be thematic with your 'content generation' but it shouldn't all have the same keyword for instance.

This is irrelevant when it comes to splogs. The idea isn't to create a great site.

I know, I know... with that last sentence I killed 3 whitehat's someplace. Hopefully they get the medical attention they need in time.

It's SEO inflation.

Last month the hype was only 1,000 words.

In 10 years each page will need to be 27,000 words, lol.

What about building a site for people AND a site for Google?