Less relevant articles?

[zulufox]

I am building a large content site on training widgets. (Not really... but lets pretend)

Looking through all my article ideas so far, it seems like there is about 300 core articles, that is articles which are heavily searched topics and really vital to the site:

Example:

Tools for training your widget...
Basic Commands for widgets...
etc.. etc..

But apart from those 300 there also seems to be literally thousands of less relevant articles:

The history of training a widget...
Where widgets came from...

These articles could bring in visitors who would otherwise not find my site, if they like the history of widgets maybe they own one and need to train it.

Has anyone had any experience with using less relevant articles to tap new sources of visitors.

[bufferzone]

Why not start with keywords/key phrases. As I am sure you know, you can find tools on the net allowing you to test keywords/key phrases and to find combinations of these that will yield a certain amount of traffic. Find all relevant keywords/key phrases for your core business and write articles optimized to fit all the different combinations.

Your analysis should show you which combinations should yield the most traffic, which again will show you which articles to write first. Work your way down the list