Site Scrapping Does Not Work

I’ve been receiving a lot of ping backs from other sites out there and most of them are scrapper sites.  I took a look at these websites and realized they have stolen over hundreds of pages and posts that other people have taken the time to write and publish.  With that said, I took a look at these site’s Google PageRank and found them all to be nice fat 0′s.  This is why duplicate content will not make your website do well in Google’s eyes.  Several years ago when the internet was young, site scrapping did work since search engines didn’t have the algorithm to check and see if the content could be flagged as duplicate.  Search engines and directories have come a long way and with millions more sites on the internet it is important that clean, original, and quality content is showcased more than already showcased content.  If you scrap content, all that content you scrap will be added to the “back burner”…

I Thought Content is King?

The phrase “Content is King” seems to be interpreted incorrectly by many “money chasers” on the internet.   I use the term “money chaser” since there are a lot of bloggers with the main focus of generating content for income where they are willing to set up some unethical system or approach to automatically generate content without writing their own.  This is definitely the incorrect approach.  If you want to gain traffic, add a little more TLC to your posts and articles.  I’ve experienced “Unique Quality Content is King” where quality will do greater than quantity in the long run.  Always remember, clean quality content will do much greater than stolen content, it’s common sense…

The Truth to Generating Quality Traffic

Quality traffic is as good as quality content.  If you want to target your visitors to a certain topic, then you need quality content to target them with or else your bounce rate will increase.  All these factors are important especially since it is used to weight your ranking on different search terms.  Another great way to generate quality traffic is by small niche.  If you have a website that focuses in on a certain topic rather than the broader approach, you will have higher rankings than other sites that use the all or nothing approach.  A website that specializes in backgrounds for mobile phones will do better in that area rather than a site that is simply backgrounds.  Or, even a recipe site that specializes in Indian food recipes rather than all recipes.  I’ve seen plenty of small niche websites that do amazing and convert a lot better.  Why go small niche?  The more narrow you niche out, the easier it is to create the quality content.  Imagine having over hundreds of categories versus having only 10 categories to work with.  As a solo editor, it is much easier to start off small rather than growing to big quick.  My recommendation for those looking into creating a new website is to go the small niche route, you will convert hell of a lot easier than trying to dominate an entire market.

“Do what you love and you will never work another day in your life.”