What is a High Quality Site?

Hey Steven thanks for posting the the webmaster central checklist as I haven’t seen it before and some of the questions are obvious. On the other hand some are interesting views that I haven’t thought about. Also the SEOMOZ vid was cool and shared some cool insights.

-Mark, to quote last part of your post “effort to drive the “little guy” off the Internet, so the corporations can have it all to themselves.”

This isn’t true. I used to sell on eBay and as the site evolved it seemed that way too. Truth is changes were made to weed out the garbage sellers that created nightmare buyer stories. The bottom line is huge corporations have a lot more dollars to throw at ebay, google etc. so of course they’re going to sway things in that way as they are far more trustworthy to the consumer/end user. We won’t get into the top level execs and all that LOL.

This whole post as well as your comment made me really think and even though the big corps are more “trustworthy”, the “little guy” can add a lot of value as well. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t like an underdog who does everything he can to help others. Are there still little guys selling on ebay and doiing well? Yes. Are there still sites by the little guy still ranking well? Yes. Are the crap MFA and micro niche just to rank well still ranking well? No, for the most part. Some are still ranking but most got slapped down.

Basically if you have junk sites just made to be set it and forget it they’re cracking down on that. There are “pro-bloggers” who are still doing well by search rankings as well as incorporating social media, having regular repeat visitors etc. I think that’s the way this whole Panda and Freshness updates are geared towards. So instead of making 100 crap sites, why not just have a few that you update regularly on a topic you are knowledgeable of (Steven-Martial Arts and his product he gave away in WF Warroom about 2 years ago used that as example) and update regularly.

For me this is exciting. I was bummed out when I found out affiliate marketing was this cookie cutter crap that worked 2 years ago. I have a few new sites/blogs I’m focusing on in a niche I know and can provide 1st hand experience. I have a few older sites still doing well and plenty of domains that did nothing or very little that I let expire.

All in all, use the old cliche of pick a passionate niche & update it regularly w/ unique content.

Good information – thanks! It always seemed to me that so many of the gurus were pushing quantity over quality because it’s easy to create a tool or system that can pump out a lot of content in a short time, which made it seem to buyers of those IM tools/systems that they were actually doing a lot. Looks to me like internet marketers are going to have to go at it much more slowly and deliberately than before. I know you don’t teach the fast and loose way, which is why I’m on your list and have bought your products. However, I think IMers are going to have to go beyond what they get in any specific course, just to set their efforts apart from others who have taken the course. 2011 was a hoot (a Googlehoot?), and hopefully 2012 will be more relaxed. However, the little negative voice whispering in my ear wonders if this is simply the next step in an effort to drive the “little guy” off the Internet, so the corporations can have it all to themselves.

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the ‘quality Site’ list. I’ve printed it off to remind me to check all of the factors when posting.

Regards,

Dave