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May 26, 2007
Content is King
Having a great website idea usually the first step down the road to the time and place where you start getting visitors. To get those visitors, it is important to have useful and unique content around your topic or series of topics so the search engines have a reason to get you in their index and start ranking you well for several keyword phrases. You can roughly estimate that each page you build will bring you 1 – 5 visitors per day – not a lot of visits but it illustrates the need to have 100s or 1,000s of pages of content if you want 1,000s of visitors.
There are many websites where the main focus is on good content. Sites like HowThingsWork.com and LifeTips.com are good examples of websites having great success with the content idea. I recently discovered a new site trying to crack into the content provider realm called ForBeginners.info. This website is beginning to add sections of content on a variety of topics like mortgages, web hosting, and sudoku puzzles.
ForBeginners.info is a good example of how to start with a small amount of content and continue to build new content until you have thousands of pages of unique pages with great information bringing in thousands of internet visitors. Eventually, if enough great content is added, web surfers will begin to recognize your site name as branding begins to occur from multiple search engine result sightings.
While building 1,000s of pages of unique content takes time and work, it is probably the best method to create a successful website. In future posts, I’ll discuss methods to speed up unique content building and how you can get your visitors to create your content for free.
Posted by Idea Man at May 26, 2007 01:18 PM
Comments
This is so true. I see many websites online where the owners are unsure why they aren't getting any visitors. The fact is, they have put together a quick 10 page site and that's it.
If you want to make more people aware of what your website offers, you have to add good quality content often to encourage others to come back again and also provide 'word-of-mouth' referrals to others.
Every business or organization, either on or off-line, relies on other people's recommendations to survive. It's amazing that people still don't seem to realize this in an online World.
Posted by: ian@doolallys.com at July 7, 2007 06:45 AM
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