How Many Articles Do you Prepare Before Publish the Site?

Recently I got one point, before publishing your website, prepare at least 40 articles.

The steps are:

1. Write at least 40 articles, and post them on the website.
2. After 40 posts are done, then change the robots.txt file, enable the Google Index, and submit the sitemap to Google Search Console.

How many articles do you prepare before publishing the site? and Why?

If we prepare a lot of articles before publishing, is it better for SEO?

Others may think differently, but it's my opinion that that strategy seems unnatural.

If they're prepared & scheduled, that's one thing. That's just easy management.

But as google spiders attempt to crawl a new website and they see 40 articles, to me that doesn't seem right.

It doesn't matter, try to maintain a higher number of info article compared to transactional/commercial.
Ideally 80:20.

PHPInjected said:

Others may think differently, but it's my opinion that that strategy seems unnatural.

If they're prepared & scheduled, that's one thing. That's just easy management.

But as google spiders attempt to crawl a new website and they see 40 articles, to me that doesn't seem right.

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This is interesting, for a new website, suddenly has 40 articles, it is unnatural. but for the spider, maybe it can crawl more content the first time and analyze more.

For a new website, is the analysis of website relevance slower?

If we give a large number of articles when we first publish the site, then the spider crawls a large amount of content for the first time, will it speed up our relevance analysis in this Niche area?

I recently launched a site and did a big mistake. I thought I will be able to write and add articles later but this aspect gets ignored because of so much other work. One should have at least 30-60 articles prepared.

I have asked some similar questions previously and the answers might help you:

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/q...-the-first-months-of-starting-a-blog.1414103/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/q...my-blog-be-indexed-by-search-engines.1381117/

What the fuck? post them as you write them. Who said there is a threshold on a starter site to have a certain number of articles before you let it index? that's total bs lol. People come up with shit to make their lives complicated for no reason.

I just jump directly in with no articles published. I don't see why a normal website would have 40 articles ready when Google first finds them. Unless someone has done split testing with multiple sites, I wouldn't trust that X amount of articles is the ideal strategy to improve your traffic from Google.

ensky said:

For a new website, is the analysis of website relevance slower?

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Take a look at @4ry4n reply as those article threads have informative comments.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're speaking on the Google Sandbox. It does exist for newer websites.

Take a look at this thread from a member who had everything done right, but his website was less than 30 days old (be sure to read the thread comments as there is more info): https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-to-increase-the-crawl-index-rate-for-my-new-site.1422864

ensky said:

Recently I got one point, before publishing your website, prepare at least 40 articles.

The steps are:

1. Write at least 40 articles, and post them on the website.
2. After 40 posts are done, then change the robots.txt file, enable the Google Index, and submit the sitemap to Google Search Console.

How many articles do you prepare before publishing the site? and Why?

If we prepare a lot of articles before publishing, is it better for SEO?

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My site goes live even with zero posts.

I gradually begin to add posts, the older your site the more likely it is to rank. So it makes that your site goes live as soon as possible even with just a post while you add the rest, then you could continue to add some more going forward

I agree that there is no any threshold of articles number before publishing a website.

I would publish a website with as little as 5 articles and then publish articles everyday as soon as they are ready. If I have 40 articles ready I would also not hesitate to publish them at once. I would make sure that they are interlinked well for the crawlers benefit. And later, I will add at least one article everyday to keep the site refreshed.

Honestly, I never paid attention to this sandbox thing. I have got adsense approval of one of my websites well within 2 months of making it LIVE.

No mate, you don't need to prepare 40 articles before publishing your site. You can post as much as you want or as low as you want.

There is no limit no rules to post articles.
You can post as much as you can, But starting with 100 articles site looking fulfill of content.

DeadJoe said:

What the fuck? post them as you write them. Who said there is a threshold on a starter site to have a certain number of articles before you let it index? that's total bs lol. People come up with shit to make their lives complicated for no reason.

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you cannot publish these days, you have to speak to the president of the US to do it legally and show the certificate on your website to pass the review

doing any content related business is strictly prohibited and google quickly reacts when new, non US people attempt to post on the internet

I think starting a website without preparing the articles is just thinking of doing it later on. If you have articles prepared you can quickly fill up the website and you can make proper silo structure to get the proper link juice from all the articles. Internal linking is one thing and tropical authority matters so if you have already articles prepared it makes more sense in internal linking. If your niche don't have many articles to write then you can probably do small articles link them to money pages and several things.

40 articles to start with are enough in my opinion. i have a lot of websites which are sitting dormant because i started them without articles and never able to do that. That's why i think have articles written first.

You don't have to schedule your content. I believe it's only done when you try to hide something. Like randomize dates on pbns to make google think your pbn is not a pbn. Or you want to schedule your backlinks cause building 555 backlinks in a day is suicidal tendency.

For me i instantly published my site when it had 1 article. Then gradually add more article

Hi, Google does limit the number of pages it crawls and indexes based on your Page Rank. So if you don't have a lot of external links, then if you publish 10 articles a day they may not be crawled or indexed in a timely fashion. The higher the authority of your site, the more content Google will index, and sooner

One month of content I prepare in advance. It is useful in case there is some issue with my writers.