I was wondering, from experienced people, I seem to see this pattern on my other sites but wanted to make sure because I haven't been with a website that was really popular purely because of google traffic. What I wanted to ask was, say you have site A: Site A has its own niche, and every day writes its own articles about the niche. Over a period of time, with each article bringing in new google traffic from new keywords, will the google traffic become cumulative, as in, will unique visitor traffic keep going up significantly over the months?? (if you didn't understand above): In other words, if a website writes frequently, fresh content with keywords, but they aren't the most amazing or traffic-rich keywords, will the website eventually become extremely high ranking, receiving thousands and thousands of uniques daily eventually? OR --- will the website require some new unique fresh quality keyword, where this one article they write, gets to be so popular on google that it brings in most of the visitors and the site grows from that? (if you didn't understand above): Popular site over time? a) content 1: xxx reads content 2: xxx reads content 3: xxx reads eventually --> popular? b) content 1: xx reads content 2: xx reads content 3: xxxxxxxx reads content 4: xx reads and because of content 3 --> popular? Sorry for the long confusing thread, hopefully some of you experts will read it.
If I understand you correctly, less searched keywords and phrases make it easy to rank higher in Google, so the traffic from lets say 10,000 pages can equal the traffic from 1 page that ranks well for a highly searched keyword or phrase.
thats what i understood from that... but my head hurts a bit now, so will have to wait till my hangover is...well... over before i even attempt to put a decent sentence together.
Yes I know that's true, but my point is. Should I be trying to write ultra amazing content that just becomes extremely popular and get my website popular --- or should I keep going with frequent posting of fairly good content and hope that the traffic from these small ranks add up and eventually the site becomes popular?? Should I keep making standard articles for decent keywords, or should I begin to make some crazy headline content like "get rich in 10 minutes!" kind of crazy attractive articles.
What you are describing as more to do with links, and domain authority than sheer volume of content. An expression is often used in SEO "A rising tide floats all ships", what this refers to is if you have say 100 pages of content and have a lot of links to 95 of them the 5 without links will also rank high. Digg is a good example, a new submission will often rank high pretty quick with no backlinks just because of implied authority being on the Digg.com domain. So to answer your question, amount of content is only half the equation, but yes more content = more possible keywords you can be found by.
I totally agree with 'sweetfunny' and the more keywords you might get ranked on the more visitors to your website after all