Aiming to publish a 300 page website

[sren]

I'm building a site, researching and writting content.
At this point I've written around 50 good articles in my language.
What do you guys usually do?
-To publish the website and update it day by day?
-Or perhaps write a lot more of content, and publish it all together when you have 150-200 pages to upload?

(Adsense is part of the plan, of course.)

thanks.

[kensav]

I just started a new site last week with 4 pages total. Today I have 9 pages total with 7 articles, an about us page and a contact page.
Next week I hope to have 15 articles written and then I'll start to accept articles from other sources.

[jetteroheller]

I started several theme oriented sub domains last year.

I published them usual as soon as the had around 60 pages.

Now the have grown up to 130 to 400 pages with all the updates in the last 12 month.

[sven1977]

I usually wait until I have about 20 pages ready. Then I publish all of them at the same time.

[dibbern2]

I publish 6 pages, never more. After that, I move on to the next topic/mini-market.

[uhwebs]

dibb, your sites are only 6 pages? and you make money?

For the original question I'd say publish now. No point in waiting weeks/months to put the other content up when you can start right away in getting visitors, links, SE rankings, etc.

Plus people may want to come back to see what is new, and adding new stuff periodically will make the site more sticky.

[gendude]

If you have 50 quality articles, that's about 50 more quality articles than some sites launch with ;)

I say publish now with your 50 articles, start getting into SEO (don't go the cheap route, it'll haunt you later on, i.e. the link farms the pay-for-banner-exchanges, etc.).

Publish an article or two a day, wait a few weeks, and then add AdSense. Yes, you could make a few bucks, but really, at the start, you need to worry more about getting more content (I was only half joking about the 50 more quailty articles), getting back-links, making sure your site is positioned well for the SE's, getting a few regulars who are either going to link to you, or help you out word of mouth wise.

Work on getting submitted to the good directories, and maybe sites that you would link to.

The fact that your not rushing into this, and that you already have a good amount of content, bodes well for the future of your site. Some people just throw sites up with a few cheesy articles and links, with AdSense, from day one. People don't go back to those sites. You set this up with everything you already have, run it for a few weeks (or months even) without AdSense, let it build up backlinks, etc., naturally, and you'll find yourself in a good position for AdSense.

[miedmark]

Guys, publish whatever you have written right away. I don't see how waiting to have 20 pages ready and publish them all at the same time could be a benefit.

As for updates, yes, update them as often as you can. Fresh content matters as well.

[Swebbie]

publish whatever you have written right away

Correctamundo! Get your new content up on your site IMMEDIATELY! What's the big deal? Two reasons...

1. The sooner a new page goes up, the sooner your regular visitors can enjoy it and maybe be enticed to buy something from you (or click an aff. link, etc.).

2. You'll "train" the search engine spiders that yours is a site that changes and has new content going online often. They LOVE that sh*t!