SEO for 1,000,000 page site
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Dear All,
I hope you can help me with another question about doing SEO for a large site:
1 - My domain is 11 year old, all time was a parking domain
2 - We have 10,000 articles - unique content (500-1500 words)
3 - the remaining are automated content, however, they are also unique with data (numbers, figure)We are going to launch it in 2 weeks, and intend to do the following things:
Stage 1: first 2 months - only post 10,000 articles with unique content, NO using automated ones.
Link building: get 5-10 authority links pointing to it, either article writings or link pages (authority links Yahoo directory/Dmoz)Stage 2: month 3 to 6: gradually put the automated content online while still posting unique and well written articles.
Link building: Start building links with PR websites, article submission.Do you think there are any problems with this plan? and if 5-10 links can improve our site ranking, given it has a lot of unique content?
Thank you very much.
BR/Tran
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Hi Steve,
"Thank you! automated here means the API service which we are purchasing (IE: Flight schedule), we also add up more useful information to make it unique, so we strongly believe that the content is not only unique and useful to readers."
I found find it VERY difficult for anyone to present a way in which this data above, described, can be unique.
Sure, it can provide some value, in the same way that sport scores are updated on lots of websites.
But does the content really provide value? Value means adding commentary, editorialism - something more - to what is already standard.
If the concept is large enough, you might be able to pull some higher authority links into place, giving the project lift and wheels in organic results, and then strategize on further ways to build.
I would be focusing initially on pitching the value of the site to older style websites and ancient directories, locating those through research and competitive back-linking. In fact, you should be prospecting and researching / bucketing this data now.
At the same time, start creating stellar new content, publishing often in your blog so that the percentage of "truly" unique content is increasing daily.
Hope this helps.
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Dear Moosa
Thank you very much, it is a good idea to have guest post on other blog, but it is considered as buying or unnatural linking? should we slow down the speed of putting the content online?
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Dear Keri
Thank you! automated here means the API service which we are purchasing (IE: Flight schedule), we also add up more useful information to make it unique, so we strongly believe that the content is not only unique and useful to readers.
My only concern is that: if we are putting too much content in short time (6 months) given we have very few inbound links, will Google put as to sandbox?. We are just thinking that content is KING and that is the only thing we should focus on, then Google will like it. Correct?
P/S: we invested huge sum of money in content, so we are very reluctant on how to launch the website in a good way that helps us with our Google ranking.
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SEO for 1,000,000 page site.... the remaining are automated content, however, they are also unique with data (numbers, figure)
Sounds like professional spam.
If your automated content is genuinely good content, then you are going to need about 1000 deep links of at least PR3 to PR4 to get all of these pages indexed. Those links should hit hub pages deep within the site that force spiders down there and make they chew their way out through all of these automated pages. Those links must be permanent or google will forget these pages and drop them from the index.
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Ok, your questions sounds like you want to verify if your strategy is right or not... In my personal opinion SEO strategy can be different from person to person because everyone can use different tactics to attain success and there is nothing wrong with this!
In my opinion, you are focusing too much on the quantity of content and missing the fact that how you are going to marketing each piece of content and grab real people’s eye on that! I think what you should really consider is to focus on marketing of your content and how exactly you are going to cater people to the website to read your content... No matter how quality your articles are but if you are not going to market it, it will drown in the deep sea of content in the online world.
Try to limit the content that you are going to make live on your own blog and consider outreaching to other similar websites within your niche and write on their blog as a guest author (instead of article submissions).
You should also exactly define your off-page strategy about how exactly you are going to get links on each article that you are going to make live... from links i mean quality links... dot run for blog comments, forums and directory shits...
As the business goal was not define so it was difficult to come up with a solid answer but i hope that this information worked out for you!
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Am I understanding you correctly in that 90% of your content is automatically generated? Is there any value in the content for the users, or is this strictly for the search engines?
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