Of course quality is what we all strive to put out here... well the guys that want stable earnings... what about quantity of content? what is the average number of adsense pages do you guys have? Do the top adsense earners publish lots of dynamic content to leverage search traffic and adsense earnings?
I think the answer to your question is yes. At least from what I've observed. And I don't even think that quality really matters that much from what I've seen. As Shawn and others have pointed out, the real trick is the number of visitors. I've yet to verify this myself as one site is now getting hundreds of page impressions a day with no earnings while another single page on a site makes more money on a regular basis than the total sites put together.
i think quality and quantity probably are big factors... im a adsense newb but if you think about it... let say u wrote the best quality content on mortage loans or mesothelioma (im sure u guys heard of that one ) , you would have to get thousands of bl's to rank well for those keywords to get traffic... the key to success is leverage... whether it be in adsense or any other business... One page of Harvard Grad Writer Quality Content vs 40,000 pages of so so content... i would take over the 40k pages any day
Not sure about the SEO end of things, but in my recording studio world, a website popped up that tested hundreds of pieces of gear on the same song. This had never been done before. I know it racked up 20,000 unique hits the first weekend without any search engine support at all. Not bad for a brand new site. This may support the idea that content quality is preferred. Then again, 20,000 hits isn't a big deal when you have 40,000 pages I guess. Brandon
I'm not saying that quality is not important. I strive to build quality content on my sites. I'm just saying that it seems to me that in order to make money, quality seems to be second place. A lot of crappy sites with tons of ads seem to make a lot more money than some good quality ones that don't try to integrate the ads to look like menues and other tricks. So purely for making money, quality comes second place to quantity and plain getting people to click on ads. Quality does attract visitors. There's just not guarantee they'll click the ads.
It's six of one half a dozen of another. In a way it depends on where your traffic comes from. If it's from referrals from other sites then you need good quality content to get that traffic. If you rely on traffic from search engines then half decent content mixed with good SEO that gets you the rankings will be good enough to generate income. Long term income isn't likely to come from sites with crappy content (they'll get dropped from the index at some point).
Great content will deliver one a great pagerank over time, and thus a better ranking in Google, which equals more income. So yes, it does matter, it just takes time (for one's site to be backlinked, recognized, and then spidered by google). Stuart
hmmm, please explain the link between pagerack and ranking in Google. Great content will not in itself bring in good page rank. Good marketting of the site will.
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't Google's SERPs based, at least in part, by a site's PageRank (basically the amount of inbound links to a site)? Stuart
Although PageRank is driven by the amount of IBL's, it is more driven by the amount of PR passed by those IBLs. You can rank highly by driving 1000's of low value PR links into a site and that won't necessarily give you a high PR on your site. Equally I can gain a decent PR simply by having a few very good quality IBL's. Good quality in this respect being ones that pass larger amounts of PR to my site. So you don't necessarily need lots of links to get high PR, but it won't make you rank well. Edit: I must be getting tired. I've read this over and over and I'm still not sure it reads correctly. What I'm trying to say is: Buy 10 PR9 links and you will have a high PR site (possibly a PR8) but still not rank well. Buy 100,000 low PR links and you could still have low PR (<5) but rank well.
jlawrence, I agree with what you're 'trying' to say. I have 2 sites with a massive number of inbound links. One has a PR 4 and the other 5. They rank very well for some high traffic keywords in their niche. Another site I have has few links and a PR7, and it's not even in the top 100 for even obscure multi-word phrases. Traffic is at less than 100 uniques a day. At least the text links are worth a good dollar on that site ;-) k
I know what you are saying jlawrence. There doesn't seem to be a solid answer concerning the relationship between PageRank and SERP. However, I believe it would be safe to say that if one has quality (and original) content, the site will more than likely, find it's way up the rankings over time... I guess that's the beauty of Google. Stuart
You've hit the nail on the head there. If you have quality content, you'll pick up more natural links. Which means that the site will find it's way up the ranking over time. If you have poor content then you have to do much more work to get the site up the rankings.