How long does it take you to make a FS?

[QuickDraw]

Originally Posted by MrYum

Looking forward to seeing the new content

As to build times, I haven't done a free site in a while. But, used to take about 4 or 5 hours including submissions. The way I build free sites tends to take a bit longer as I mirror the entire site for each recip table, then change up the text on all the pages.

Do you find more of your pages indexed by se's using that method? I've thought about it in the past, but always figured it was more trouble then it was worth.. Do you use unique directory names too? I think I might give that a try on my next go 'round.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by QuickDraw

Do you find more of your pages indexed by se's using that method? I've thought about it in the past, but always figured it was more trouble then it was worth.. Do you use unique directory names too? I think I might give that a try on my next go 'round.

I like to change up text with mirrors too, when I have the time for it. Although, I've noticed that google and yahoo seem to favor unique title tags more than anything else when it comes to making variance on mirrors.

But it doesn't take too long to swap out a few choice words here and there, and tweak your file names. If you can say the exact same thing but use a different words to do it then it's still unique.

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by QuickDraw

Do you find more of your pages indexed by se's using that method? I've thought about it in the past, but always figured it was more trouble then it was worth.. Do you use unique directory names too? I think I might give that a try on my next go 'round.

The Hippy is on the right track

I use unique directories and altered keyterms to adjust to the directory names. Also, altered metas and other text on each version of the site to keep them completely unique. Since I do 3 mirrors of each site, I end up with 3 entirely unique sites wrapped around the same set of pictures.

That said, when I first started doing them that way...yes, google seemed to like it. Over time however, that fickle beast has dropped a LOT of the pages. Yahoo still has most of them...MSN has more than Google, but far less than Yahoo.

Worth the extra time??? Honestly, that's a toss up