I recently had someone say a resource page is a bad idea. What do you think?
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I have a resource page on my website: www.joeborders.com
an admin on the google webmaster forum said I should get rid of it. That google might look at it as spammy and gaming the system. Either that or greatly expand on it and make it more complete. I haven't updated it in a while and its far from complete. What do you think? Boot it or grow it?
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Joe,
As EGOL points out, you can make an argument for either side - keep or remove. It's really up to you.
Things to consider:
- Is there a demand for this in the marketplace?
- Is your page currently ranking?
- Is the page useful to your audience? Is it visited repeatedly and for some time? Is it shared with others?
- Is there something better already out there? Can you beat it?
- You said your page is already incomplete and outdated. Are you willing to update and maintain it on an ongoing basis?
- Would you get more bang for your buck spending that time on something else?
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In general I would guess that there aren't very many people that visit and/or use my resource page. Does that mean I should probably get rid of it?
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You can pick any activity... blogging, guest posting, infographics, video, whatever... and you will find evangelists and naysayers.
In the end, it does not matter "what you do"... instead the impact is determined by how you do it and how well you do it.
I don't know anything about your business model or your clients, so I can't give good feedback on what you are doing. Only the end user who you are successful at putting your page in front of will be able to judge if you have a good product or are wasting your time.
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