How to use my time: Make my site bigger or make link wheels?
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I have a site which consist of about 500 pages. It's the biggest of it's tiny niche, and I'm making a livin' out of it (it gets me clients). So this is important to me.
I have access to tons and tons of non-copyrighted relevant texts. This text is not on the www, and thus would be unique to google. All though the text is relevant, it's not really useful for my visitors.
How to use this text and get the most of my time spent?
1. Making thousands of articles on my website, with internal linking to the "selling" keyword pages?
2. Use text to make a lot of link wheels - eventually linking to my main site?
Thanx a bunch!
And if you have other suggestions I'd love to hear'em out -
great response, I love the....
_"I would give these texts to my competitor and hope that he puts the dead weight on his site." _
You make a very valid point.
Content needs to be engaging, and if the content is just that, you stand a good chance of uses sharing your content.
shares = exposure = more visits = more sales
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All though the text is relevant, it's not really useful for my visitors.
What's the goal here?
Are you trying to get useless traffic or weight down your website with a bunch of crap?
I would give these texts to my competitor and hope that he puts the dead weight on his site.
I believe that a small compact site with highly relevant pages competes better than a huge site with a ton of irrelevant crap.
I want my sites to be lean, mean fighting machines... not fat, out-of-shape wimps.
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You asked about linkwheels. Don't do it.
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Unless the content can be re-written into something useful, I wouldn't bother publishing it. It will do you no favours to have content that no-one wants to read. You want visitors to be excited to know you have produced something, not groan and look away
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How would you make use of the content, then?
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You do have to be careful of what you write and make sure it is of interest. If you just suddenly publish a load of articles (well, you would stage them anyway) that no-one really wants to read, as already said, you will get a high number of bounces and very little time spent on the pages / site.
Unique content that is applicable to your audience is the way to go
Andy
-- Oh, and steer clear of Link-Wheels. Old tricks that you will get nothing from any more. Google want to see content, content and more content
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Oh, I never really thought of bounce rate..
It's outdated documents regarding my niche. Let's say you have a site about "How to climb mountains the modern way", then my documents would be stories of old-school mountain climbing. Relevant, but useless and uninteresting.
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Can you elaborate on your "unique but useless" (my paraphrase) content? Normally I'd say to get as much content as you can out there but if it's not useful it might drive another signal you don't want: bounce rate.
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