Exactly how it sounds - how do you guys go about creating sites with thousands of pages? My site has less than 70, and it's taken me 3 months to get to this point.

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Depending on what you do and what your site is about there are many ways. Some will use blogs, crap page generators or other mean to do this. I inflate my site with crosswords. I put a puzzle every day in french and english, so 2 pages a day. They are randomly generated with the game I made and try to sell. I added a button on my version that I click and it makes the html page for the puzzle. So it takes the time that my game takes to generate the game, about 45 seconds. You have to think of things you can add that are relevant to your site and visitors.

I try to keep as much as possible in a data base and use the data in a couple of different ways. eg 1000 roducts in 40 categories by 20 manufacturers... I've got a new one with few pages and no other way other than adding useful content to pick up the page count so I've been talking with Owlcraft about his bookstore. (soz Owlcraft, don't intend that the bookstore won't be useful content)

When we get it fired up I'll make sure to repost.

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One must remember that generating tons of "crap" pages will make your visitors think your site is CRAP.

Size of a site, although of some importance, should not be one of your primary drivers unless your subject matter requires it. We rank in the top ten on many keywords that are super competitive (5-15 million pages) and have less than 100 pages in the site. We focus on one-way BL's from relevant sites, NOT tons of crap pages.

This sure doesn't explain all the super-crap pages which currently have top 10 results in some niche competitive keywords. Of course ... it's not like those top rankings are actually generating any conversions. Now, if I could get my pages up there, it would generate some serious cash.

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I think for someone in your field setting up a message board would be a great idea, or at least consider creating a system for site visitors to submit their own comments.

You can also utilize cross promotion content.

If you know that your site visitors are interested in Product A, that also probably means they'd be interested in Product B and C. Try to find ways to develop related resources and information on that.

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Never put in the life of your website with "crap pages". Think about all the time consuming and the effort involved in making a "crap site". And when your customer gets to the "crap website" it's going to see all the "crap" that somebody has in his "crap website" and by default when you have so many customers that see all the"crap pages" they will respond according to the "crap" that has been given to them.

Ok now the best way to rank well and not having to put up with a "crap site" is to take a full reading of our friend Seo-guy free seo tutorial Read it from start to finish. I have been in the webdesign for so many years until a few months ago I decided to pursue the expansion of my small web design company and add another product that is SEO. I have been wandering many forums until I got this site and have been reading mostly until now. And is because this forum is not the biggest in posts as others are, but the content that SEO-guy has is far more rich than in other, so I was compelled to start posting here. This is the same for your customer.


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P.S. The repetition on the "crap thing" was only to add some spice and see if it ranks well on the SE please don't take it personal. I apologise in advance, just in case.

Make a travel site, subscribe to xml feed and create 40-50,000 pages in 1 day. This type of sites are very much present in abundance, but only few make to SEs. I think for good results only hard work in writing unique and valuable content would help in long run.

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Once you get past a few dozen pages, you are invariably looking at some sort of mechanical methodology. That doesn't mean scraping and making copies of other people's work with the serial number filed off. To take an example close to my heart, one dilligaff mentioned, I have a package that will tack an Amazon bookshop that specializes in books on your site's theme (as you define it) onto your site; bingo, there, do you choose wisely, are 9,000+ extra pages, and they are honest, fair, relevant pages.

Or, as someone suggested, you can look for feeds or other content sources that can be honestly and openly re-used. Search Project Gutenberg for books relevant to your topic (all the books they have are in the public domain), usually old classics) and put them up on your site a page for a page (or thereabouts). You might have to use your imagination or stretch a little conceptually, but any books about spies would do--use your imagination.

You have to think creatively. Where can I find large amounts of material at least peripherally related to my topic and yet in the public domain? Search the US Printing Bureau (or whatever exactly they're called--Gov't Printing Office, some such) for anything at all you can use, as just about everything they have is public domain.

In short, that is the magic phrase: "public domain".

Good hunting.

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And presenting products, manufacturers and relevant information as unique pages isn't crap... nor is providing useful resources.

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