What does it mean to have thousands of "pages of content"?

[interwebink]

first of all - I've really learned a lot from this forum and look forward to giving back when I get in such a position.

I've got a lot of questions on top, people must think mine are stickies!

anyway, I've read in many threads of people having thousands of "pages of content" - generated/outsourced/compiled over years.

Is that literal? A single site with thousands of pages of unique content on a single topic? I surf a LOT, maybe in the wrong places, but that seems like a rediculously big site.

Am I misunderstanding something?

[Das Capitolin]

If you're referring to my thread, it just celebrated three years on the web, and has nearly 11,000 SQL content IDs... which leads me to your answer:

PHP/SQL-based CMS websites usually work on a system of content IDs, and in my case the main site has 11K while the forum has 2K. This could break down several ways (for each). The site has about 10K single-page URLs, and the remainder all have between 2-30 pages (with dynamic page URLs for each). The Forum has 2K threads, but each thread has one or more posts.

In my case, I don't count the forum at all because it's not really what I would define as content. On the other hand, we really do have 11K of unique items on the main site.

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[artek]

These are the sites that started small, less than 100 pages, proved them self to be good idea, and then they grew up for years with need of relevant content pages to address more and more related issues or keywords.

[Lame_Wolf]

A single site with thousands of pages of unique content on a single topic?

Of course you can. Take cars for instance. Look at how many reviews you could do. Then, there are car parts, driving schools, garages, best place for petrol, rallies, and so on.

Or gardening... 1000's of types of flowers and plants. Each could have reviews, how to grow etc. Then there are gardening tips, tools, general care, nurseries, bug prevention etc etc.

Easy to do if you are an expert in your chosen topic.

[brotherhood of LAN]

"Unique content" is subjective... and one's idea of unique may be "unique enough to fool a search engine" or "quality content not to be found anywhere else".

[LifeinAsia]

A lot depends on how broad the topic is. Something like "Underwater Basket Weaving by the Nomadic Tribes of Southeastern Africa" might be hard pressed to generate hundreds, let alone thousands, of pages of content. However, something more broad (like travel in Africa) could easily have thousands of pages of content, especially if you add some discussion boards, user reviews of local hotels and businesses, etc.

[tangor]

The topic needs to have some depth, say something like fan-interest or a profession. Ecommerce sites can have thousands of products and each product page is "unique content". I have a little hobby site that's going on 14 years and have around 1,700 pages of unique content.

[jmccormac]

Web directories would be the classic example of sites with lots of pages. Some newspaper sites also build considerable page counts. As for individual users, it depends on what the topic of the site and the level of content added each day.

Regards...jmcc

[JasonDX]

I have 13,000 pages. Its possible if you have user generated content.

[interwebink]

JasonDX, is that forum speak for comments?

[jetteroheller]

I have 5500 pages in German and 3000 pages in English

All own content generated over the years.

Most of it since 2004

[interwebink]

Das Capitolin-
I think it's funny that you should mention your post because I wasn't referring to yours per se. But you obviously identified with it.

To me having that much content is a great multi-year feat.

I just started a new (to me) venture, a niche site. It's a topic that I'm intrested in, lots of general knowledge to know and lots of products in the arena.

It's a trendy lifestyle topic and top affilliates on cj have a 3month and 7day epc of about $70 and $30 respectively. My strategy will be to backfill 20 or so pages of general knowledge to start with a goal of 2 articles/mo. I'd eventually like to add a forum after a few months.

At that rate it'll take me years to get up to thousands of articles but hopefully I'll see some results before i hit the 10k pages mark :)

Does this sound like a decent plan?

[fearlessrick]

In my niche, I have well over 5000 pages, which could realistically be expanded to upwards of over 100,000. I'm not kidding. It's a narrow topic with incredibly deep reach. I call it my retirement plan, though, I have to admit, Adsense has spoiled me a little. Instead of focusing on the core, I have spent the last couple of years on other interests.

Thinking I should get back to work. Creating 100,000 pages takes time, you know.

[Das Capitolin]

interwebink:

More important than sheer quantity is still quality. If your pages offer visitors a better understanding/experience than the other sites, it won't matter if you only add ten pages a month, or a hundred. Good luck!

[jmccormac]

This is rapidly turning into a "my site has n thousand pages" thread. :) Mine has over 300 Million with approximately 2.5 million new pages added each month. However the quality and uniqueness of the pages matter - especially when it comes to search engines. Otherwise you are just hoping for the Long Tail effect. The other key aspect is the ratio of repeat to new vistors.

Regards...jmcc

[jetteroheller]

My student who started summer 2008 has now beyond 2000 pages own developt content.

All articles all photos created by him

[interwebink]

very cool, what is the tuition for the JetteroHeller class?