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Originally Posted by chadglni
I thought this method died out 10 or 12 years ago.. Looks like it's been extended upon instead.. Is this still a good way to generate traffic? I'm guessing with enough niches and a good keyword density ratio/no duplicate content, aim for some long tale searches..on a large enough scale bound to catch some page impressions?
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This method works just fine today. Maybe even better than before. The only difference is that 10-15 years ago it was possible to fill your sites with tons of unique but garbage texts and get good position in SERPs.
Now the uniqueness is not as important as user experience. 10 years ago Google was unable to spy on surfers (nobody was using Google analytics, there was no Chrome browser, no Android etc). Today you need to keep surfers glued to your site (they have to spend much time there, open many pages, bookmark it etc), because Google knows everything.
The best way to do it is to provide the content your surfer expects to see. Just give them tons of relevant media (videos, images etc) and Google will love your site. 10 years ago you could hire a "copywriter" from India to clog up your site with unique but absolutely senseless texts and that worked. Now you don't need anything unique.
Look at the top of Google SERP's for any adult keyword and you will see tubes there. Click any link and you will see a video player and a shot non-unique title/description. There is no unique but boring texts written by "copywriters". There is only a few-word title and video, which is just nothing... but everything that your surfer is looking for. When you are searching for some hardcore action, you won't read long boring text pages and will close them even before they load, but you will definitely stay on a video page or image gallery. Google is not stupid today and knows it very well.
To sum it up. The automation method works perfect nowadays and even better than before. Just use do it wisely. Tons of
relevant media, right site design/layout, good navigation, search functionality, tags, content categories etc will do the trick. The content can be non-unique at all, but it must be sorted out, categorized and presented in useful form. Your surfer activity factor will grow up immediately and Google will notice that...
The text spinning/synonimizing is still very useful BTW. Not to get better positions in SERP's, but to get more SE traffic from low density keywords, because if you have 100 sites with a same video, but with different keywords in the title, you will get more hits. E.g. lots of people search for "teen with a toy", but someone may type "nubile girl with dildo". Using text spinning/synonimizing function on your self-populating sites, you will target almost all possible search phrases. And course you can target the people that speak different languages. The auto-translate feature works out of the box.
That's why my plugin has "SEO" in its name ;)