I'm wondering if someone can give me some advice on how to handle a situation. Up till late 2006, I wrote technology content (I was the only writer for the site) for a top 10 web property. I wrote several thousand articles and reviews (both blog posts and articles based in a template). At the time I left the company, I was averaging about 1 million page views a month (went from 30,000 page views a month to a million a month in about 4 years). I left the company to focus on other ventures and over the last 2 years I have been paid a small fee for my content to stay live on the website. Now the company has hired a new writer and has offered me the content I wrote. I have exclusive rights to the content and it is original material written by me. I am trying to decide what to do and my choices seem to be: Sell the content as it is for someone to build a site on Build a website with the content to use as an Adsense site I'm leaning towards building a website with the content and imagine it will be quite a bit of work. With all of that said, here is my question. How will a new website rank with search engines, the company will take down my content so it won't be duplicate data? I'm really not sure I want to put in the work in building the website but if I can get the articles to position the way they did in the past, I might try it. I do understand I will lose the promotion capabilities of the network I was with and also the thousands of backlinks I built. Any ideas? Thanks
If you're worried about the effort to create the site, also be ready for the work involved to get that site enough quality links to rank well. A site can be put up in a few weeks, but it can take months to get traffic.