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Please Help Me With Some Advice Before I Mess Up A Good Thing

by kphsax
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A couple of years ago when I first started experimenting with IM, I purchased a domain in a highly competitive niche. Not knowing much about what I was doing, I put a "canned" adsense site up, and after realizing after the fact how competitive of a niche and keyword it was, basically forgot about it.

However, recently I noticed a spike in traffic, and see that this site is now ranked in the top 10(Yahoo) for this very competitive keyword. My issue is that with the level of targeted traffic I am now getting, this canned adsense site is clearly not the most effective means of monetizing. There are currently 318 pages indexed in google, but all are generic article based pages with adsense.

My question.....will I lose my search engine ranking if I put a different site(using everything I now know about how to monetize the traffic more effectively) up at that URL.....is there a way to pull this off and maintain the high ranking. This is made more complex by the fact that the site sitting at the URL now is one of those canned generic adsense sites that is not really modifiable into anything decent. I'd want to put up something completely different

Thanks for Your Help Warriors
#advice #good #mess #thing
  • Profile picture of the author Brad Spencer
    I'm not an SEO expert. However, I would say that putting a list up there and building it since it is a competitive keyword would be better in the long run.

    You might lose that ranking. That could happen.

    However, don't look at it that way...long term does changing it make you more money?

    That should be your driving force.

    Just my opinion.

    Cheers,

    Brad Spencer
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Evans
    If you pull the content you'll lose the rankings... Pages are ranked, not websites.

    You could add new content with a new navigation system, but leave your old pages as they are and link to them using a sitemap. That way your old pages will still bring in traffic and the internal links from them to your new pages will give the new pages a slight SEO boost.
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