Content website of the year 2009 ....
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I own a network of travel sites, after all the changes that happened to past 12 months and so. I am really thinking if maybe my sites are worthless. I mean, let's be honest here. I understand what Google is doing. So i ask myself. If I wasn't trying to make a living with google adsense and affiliate sites... Would I still have these travel sites ? well the truth is NO NO...
Therefore should i forget about my content site ?
It is a punch of useless content. well some interesting information but it is a travel guide like many others online.
What do you think?
now it is better to focus on your product site or create 1 good websites rather than a network of sites that worked very veryyy well the past 10 years...
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Hey!
It seems that you already have the correct answer: "It is a punch of useless content.", "now it is better to focus on your product site or create 1 good websites rather than a network of sites".
Content without added value means useless, and therefore outranked by better sites.
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