So I took about 115 popular search phrases and created 115 search-phrase.html files. Within these files I had a standard two paragraph bit and just replaced the keywords with whatever was relevant. So if the keywords are "Blue sign posts" I would make a page called blue-sign-posts.html and put two paragraphs of a generic statement with the keywords mentioned about 3 times. To make one called red-sign-posts.html, I just replaced the keywords in the paragraphs and uploaded it. Finally, I made links to each of these pages from my index page with the name of the link as the tag. To throw off the duplicate content filter at random places on the page I pasted product descriptions as an "example" of the products we carry. It's nonsense, but it should make it so that only maybe 60% of the page is actually duplicate. Is this going to get google mad at me?
Is your generic statement related to your page focus at all? Is it going to get customers mad at you?
No, the generic content is made to be fitting. It's stuff like "We carry blue sign posts and have over 2,000 examples in our database! Many places sell cheap blue sign posts but they're usually of lesser quality.....blahblahblah" like that. I just replace "blue sign posts" on each page with a new keyword, so I have 115 pages. The only difference is the keywords and about 4-5 unique product descriptions at about a sentence each for each page. That's the part that worries me, how much duplicate content is considered duplicate content? Also, will google drop my website for duplicate content, or just not index the other pages?
I would say that you will probably get banned but you could try it on a domain you dont care about and see what happens. Only problem is that it would take a while for the search engines to ban you if its a new site. But if you are using an existing site with good rankings and you do get banned then you have to start all over again. So its a risk and only you know how big a risk. The other thing is is the standard text something that will lose you visitors?
There's no doubt that spamming keywords in URLs like that might get you in trouble. The thing is, would you take the risk? Because probablly you'll get spotted in 3 months from now, or maybe tomorrow. Good luck, Scorpiono
I seriously doubt it but I can assure you that more than likely none of your pages are going to rank highly for those keywords unless you have backlinks from outside of your website pointing to those pages with some relevance of the keywords you're using. On the positive side, you're learned a very good way to format links. On the negative side, why on earth would you waste all that time creating 115 individual paged when you could have used a 301 redirect to one PHP file to generate the pages dynamically from a database? My advice - Take the positive part of what you've learned and apply it to generating legitimate content, not search engine spam. Quality should always take precedence over quantity. You're on the right track, just apply your learnings with "quality" and you'll be rewarded far more than if you try to find cheats or workarounds.
Google won't care if you built your site poorly. You just won't rank for the keywords as well as you would with true original content. It was probably just a nice effort and a good cause but a true waste of time. JMO
Well I heard bad things with google and redirects, plus if someone told me they did that I would think it's shady. Less shady sounding if it's hardlinked html pages. I built a script to do the work for me. Here's what I did, REP if you like it I popped up google adwords keyword tool and put in a generic but appropriate keyword. When it came back with suggestions I organized it by search volume (either month or average, you pick) and exported it to csv. I then built a single html page with a few generic paragraphs and links to products. In the paragraphs I put <text> as a placeholder. Then I built a small script to go to excel, grab the keywords, back to dreamweaver and replace <text> with keywords. Once that was done I set the script to 'save as' key-word.html (or whatever was the keyword). I then pasted the original list of keywords into dreamweaver and used the following regex: Find: (.+) Replace: <a href="http://www.mysite.com/$1">$1</a> This created links based on the keywords and linked them to the correct pages. Finally I just slapped a table around them and put it on my index page. Sounds like a lot but it was maybe 10min. If anyone wants the same thing I can make it for them.