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I recently started a website (about one specific music genre) that basically have "content" section and also "user" section. User section is something like myspace, user can create his profile, manage buddylist, upload photos etc...
As for the content section, besides news and reviews, I was thinking creating something like encyclopedia for that specific music genre. This "encyclopedia" about this genre of music would be a lot of static articles about different artists and stuff like that. I would basically compose these encyclopedia articles from different sources online, including wikipedia. My question is, is this worth doing? Will I get blacklisted because of content duplication? I would not verbatim copy articles, just I would compose them from different sources, maybe add something new...
Should I forget the "encylocpedia" section and concetrate more on writing original content (like news and reviews)? I'm asking this because composing all those encyclopedia articles would be time consuming (there would be a lot of them), and I don't want to end up being blacklisted or similar.
As I said, there is user section for fans of this music genre, and users can create their profiles.. but in order to attract users from SEs, I should have some content on the subject.
So, do you think this "encyclopedia" section is unnecessary? Thanks in advance.
Should I forget the "encylocpedia" section and concetrate more on writing original content
It really depends on what you can bring to it. If you can offer new insight or save people time by bringing several sources together, then it's probably worthwhile. If the info is hard to find and you're good at finding it, then it's even more worthwhile. If the info is abundant, easy to find, and you'd just be repeating what everyone else is saying then no, focus on other aspects.
The way to approach it, though, is to write original content based on what you learn from the sources, not to lift a paragraph from each one and rephrase it - basically each encylopedia article you write is a standalone research paper on the subject. If each article is in your own words, you won't get blacklisted.
I run a music site linked to a printed magazine. All our reviews go on the site - with the hope of some Amazon income from sales (in my dreams!) - but get very few visits. Hits go to our clubs and venues directory and to our photo gallery.
I am still thinking about it... I actually made like 10 or so pages with encyclopedia entries (artists mostly). It looks nice to have some content like that, plus news on main page and also a review section. With all that content + user section, I would be able to make some pretty cool frontpage (like have one block that says "featured artist" - it pulls out 1 random artist, featured person - it pulls out 1 random user, featured review etc....).
Oh well, at least I will make some more important encyclopedia pages like "About xyz music genre", "Subgenres", stuff like that.
btw anyone here using adsense on a music-portal or similar website? How is adsense doing there, if say you have a site with content about specifig music genre (although a popular one worldwide)?
