Seo for Q&A site
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Hi,
I am working on a newly launched Q&A site. We have very few questions and users right now and very very low seo traffic.
In order to increase the number of users and seo traffic we intend to create a number of pages containing potential questions.
Each page would have the following structure:
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Question. Ex: "What are the top wholesale suppliers of coffee in China?"
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Some content. Ex: Are you looking for wholesale suppliers of coffee in China? Post your question here?
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Question form
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Some additional content
So there would be a page for wholesale suppliers of coffee for every country.
We would publish the pages gradually and the content would be unique but yet similar (ex: only the Country changes).
What do you think about this approach? Is it a good idea or can it be dangerous? We don't want to incur in any kind of penalization, we just want to give the possibility to people who are looking for specific information to find us and be able to post the request on our website.
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I haven't dove deep into the contents, but I'd look at their link profile and the keyword competition for the specific terms you've used to pull those those specific pages
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Anyone can give me a feedback on my last comment?
How can currency converter sites rank with so much duplicate content? -
Think about it from the user's perspective. It's so annoying when you're searching for an answer or a review and you get to a page that has the exact same question you are asking and then all you see is that there are no answers yet. This just turns away users, increases bounce rates and generally stinks.
As Google is trying to give the user the best experience, this type of tactic is not likely to be helpful.
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This reminds me of a lot of websites that got railed by Panda updates this year.
I seem to remember seeing a website which had several pages with similar content, it was like "How to make a fax from the Canada to Mexico", "How to make a fax from United States to Canada", "How to make a fax from Mexico to Canada" and so on (probably at least 50 of these pages.) Pre-Panda, they were dominating SERPs and rolling in the money, and now I believe they are no where to be found / may have restructured their content so it's less spammy, more of a resource, and overall a better user experience.
Having a lot of low quality pages like this on your website may hurt your overall rankings from what I've read, seen, and have tested.
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