What are Content-Rich Sites

What are Content-Rich Sites and Why Have One? 

A content-rich site is one that has lots of informative articles up at it, usually centered around a theme.  Most sites can’t quite pull off being WikiPedia, so they specialize.  For instance, you could do a site for dog owners.  Possible articles on that site would cover

• How to figure out what kind of dog you want 

• Where to get a dog 

• How to deal with a puppy 

• Life stages of a dog 

• House-training puppies 

• Dog training 

• What to feed dogs 

• Whether to get more than one dog 

• How to socialize dogs with other dogs and with cats 

• Exercise needs of dogs 

• Training dogs to do tricks 

• Treating fleas 

• Common dog ailments and when to go to the vet 

• Dog nutrition 

• Taking your dog on a trip 

• Getting a pet sitter or boarding your dog if you don’t take him on a trip

The articles you’ll want to have on your site should be short enough so that someone can read them in about 5 minutes.  This means you want to stick to articles of 250 to 750 words, with 300 to 600 words optimal.  To give you an idea, a single page in a published novel has about 300 words

Of course, your real purpose in putting up all these nice little short articles and changing them out frequently is not to just put information out into the world.  It is to have a site that people will come back to so that they will see the Google AdSense ads, and click on them, and then you will get checks in the mail.    That’s a key point, so I’m going to repeat it: