How to make 50 000 pages

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[marttali]

i'm not much of a poster, i prefer to read. But every now and then i stumble into the thread(s) where someone claims having 50 000 pages, indexed or not, it really does't matter.
How the hell they manage to make 50 000 pages? I naturally assume they are content rich and not cloaked or something similar. If i build 10 pages a day, it takes me 14 YEARS to make that amount of pages. Could someone explain it to me how this could be achieved?

[benihana]

database driven sites.
;)

[edit_g]

An awful lot of products and a data entry team. Both preferably someone elses.

[lazerzubb]

As stated CMS system or large product systems, pretty much all big bookshops have a huge amount of pages online.

[Rumbas]

Start a forum [google.com] ;)

[chris_f]

Sites that advertise generate their own content. (i.e. The visitor places an ad and that site gains a page (or more) of content).

Chris

[SlowMove]

Here's a directory that was put together after spidering the Web.[bleep! -rcj] I found it in my log files. The only problem is the programming involved in running that kind of site.

[edited by: rcjordan at 2:50 pm (utc) on June 27, 2003]
[edit reason] sorry, no specific references to sites. [/edit]

[Hawkgirl]

One product. LOTS of keywords. A large chunk of content that you can slice and dice several dozen ways. A few days of spreadsheet fun. Lots of language manipulation. Push the button - zap! Thousands of pages, one for each keyword.

Or so I've heard. ;)

[TheWebographer]

Yes database driven websites like our Online News site. We probably post 20-pages per day and store them in a database.

Over the years it adds up. A larger organization would post even more.

[SlowMove]

database driven sites.

What if there is no data? How do you quickly start from nothing and wind up with 50,000 pages?

[edit_g]

What if there is no data? How do you quickly start from nothing and wind up with 50,000 pages?

Two words: Affiliate Programs.

[agerhart]

How do you quickly start from nothing and wind up with 50,000 pages?

It depends: are you looking to end up with 50,000 pages of quality content or just content?

A 50,000 page website can be made easily with slightly different content for each page, but it isn't quality content - content spamming.

If you want quality content, it will take some significant time.

[SlowMove]

Forgive the ignorance. This is really interesting. I use Commission Junction. How do you implement this kind of thing?

[SlowMove]

It depends: are you looking to end up with 50,000 pages of quality content or just content?

Just money. Affiliate program money.

[dcheney]

Many of us with larger sites (my main site is roughly 25,000 pages) have spent literally years (over 7 for me) creating the data that drives the site. IMO, there is no simple or quick way to create a lot of _good_ data.

[edit_g]

good_ data

This is the point you will have to wrestle with. Keep in mind also that bad content doesn't sell as well as good content.

[SlowMove]

there is no simple or quick way to create a lot of _good_ data.

Not adverse to hard work. What about the software used to run the thing?

[Hawkgirl]

Keep in mind also that bad content doesn't sell as well as good content.

But a lot of bad content will sell better than no content at all. ;)

[dcheney]

My site is database created (custom Paradox code) but staticly served. So the database generates the changed pages, and I upload them like any ol' web site.

[gopi]

If you are a affiliate , get a DB-Dump/datafeed from the merchant and just write a script to create static pages out of it ...

In 10-15 minutes you would have created thousands of pages :)

[SlowMove]

If you are a affiliate , get a DB-Dump/datafeed from the merchant

If I'm using Commission Junction, will they setup the db-dump, or should I deal directly with the merchants? What about the tracking code?

[SlowMove]

I found it. CJ calls it their "Scheduled Data Transfer Guide"

Now the concern is using duplicate content. I'm guessing that there are a lot of other sites using the same data.

[gopi]

>> Now the concern is using duplicate content

True , if you use it the same way as others ... You have the raw data and with some creativity and programming effort you can create a unique and also useful site ...

For example , with datafeeds from different merchants you can create a price comparison site - combine it with amazon's xml feed you can now add product reviews from people ... Creativity is the key here :)

[PRNightmare]

I would venture to say that the "true" developers here, when they speak of their 50,000 page sites, are referring to database driven sites.

You understand. You have a database of, oh say 50,000 products. Then, you make a single web page that looks something like....

http#//www.yourdomain.com/productID=1

That, in my opinion is the only way one dude can make sites in the tens of thousands range.

Unless you're into spam. Then buy some software and make some horrific pages. People love that.