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If you wanted to add thousands of pages to your website, how would you do it?
I don't want doorway or unethical ways.
I thought about Mr. Rat's Amazon script.
What other ways could you add a lot of pages to a site quickly?
I haven't hit a thousand yet but I am working on it. I get public domain articles and write my own. I don't have any hard numbers but it seems like you need about 20 public domain articles to equal the traffic (and AdSense revenue) from a unique article.
I wouldn't use Amazon for primary content, you will have a hard time competing with them. I also have a bunch of old retired guys (and a granny) that need a hobby writing for me. For them it makes them feel important and for me it is free unique content. Plus all us wippersnappers can learn from the older ones.
Also try blogging every day. I wrote an article about something trivial and now I am getting a ton of hits from it.
I wasn't looking for a debate, just an easy to answer question.
monkeythumpa,
Thanks for that suggestion, but I was looking for on a much larger scale...thousands instead of 1 by 1.
Anyone else have any ideas?
We have an Access database of locations we offer our product and I wrote a VB process to automatically create and FTP the pages up to the web.
Are all these pages to be unique content?
Where does this content come from, files, other websites <eek> or a database?
The reason for the rising "debate" in your thread is because of the unclarity of the origin of the content you intend to put on the site.
So: **if** you have the content, there are many ways: if it's from files or a database, you can use server-side or local programming, such as perl, php, or asp, to extract the content from the source files and auto-generate the html pages.
While it's not a quick/easy solution, it's still easier than pasting all that data into the pages by hand.
IF you **don't** have content, there is no easy or fast way other than doing the work. If you hope to get these pages from some other source, such as other websites, or generate gibberish or redundant pages, this is where the argument of ethics begins to rise. Not only is that a bad idea for your site, it's going to bring a lot of trouble your way.
In the first case you'll find a lot of people willing to help you along.
What form is your content in? If it is a thousand different files in many different formats, written by many different people, you probably have soom real work to be done to create a workable web site. However, if it is information in a data base or a collection of similarly formated files, it may be rather easy. But the way to do it depends upon what form the content is in and what server side resources, if any, you have available.
I recently worked with a friend on the web site for the National Society of Widget Polishers. He had e-mailed local sections a spread sheet for them to enter date, time, and place info for their upcoming local meetings. After they were e-mailed back it only took a little bit of VBA in Excel to produce about 750 individual html pages to upload to the site. So now a traveling widget polisher can call up the national site, enter a zip code and date in the form, and be taken to a page with information about any local section meetings in that area. So it can be done and there are reasons why one might want to do it.
If you will be using a site that supports php and SQL there are other solutions (much shorter upload). So it all depends upon the details.
Just give some details and you will find many people here who are happy to help.
I was thinking more like an amazon web feed/store and stuff like that...maybe as an affiliate feed that has a large feed.
Although, you guys gave me another idea...How hard would it be to pull unique pages out of a database...say the database was arranged about widgets...roughly 20,000 entries?
Thanks for the help and suggestions,
Brandon
