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Most guides on the internet about building a website and gaining traffic tell you that the only real way to do it is to have quality content. And most webmasters seem to say the same.
However I am not sure it is. I have many sites which are in subfolders of other sites so that I do not have to buy hosting for each one and many of them have plenty of content on. However traffic is mimimal.
This led me to beleive that not having a domain name could be the cause of this. I aquired a Jerry Springer domain on eBay which I redirected to one of these sites and that site now has 10 forums members with hardy any promotion. Other sites which do not have a domain on them have tumbleweed blowing accross their homepage.
I have also considered other factors such as dynamic pages as much of my content, especially my sites with a lot of content are all server side and databased based. Although there are several sites that are not.
Do sites which are in subfolders get lower rankings on search engines? Obviously sites such as Geocities sites do but I have pages linking from the homepage that link them together and they are static pages. But I wouldn't count it out as search engines may think its one big site.
In my experiance sites without domains, whichout promotion and lots of link exchanges tend to get a pitterful amount of traffic. Does everyone else have a similar experiance?
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