Reply To: How much content do I actually need before launching a new site?

[blazonstudio]

If you’re looking to start ranking sooner than later, I would recommend having:

* a home page
* an about page
* a services hub page
* a service area hub page
* and a contact page

That at least gets you the fundamentals. Of course I would recommend having an individual page for each service you offer and each service area. The service area pages can range from:

* states
* counties
* cities
* neighborhoods

It all really depends on what you cover and what you do but that’s the essentials in my opinion.

So once you have your “on-page” covered, you’re definitely going to want to start networking and doing outreach to get links from other website owners. That’s how you build your authority and outrank your competition for the more competitive keywords you’re probably wanting to go after.

And of course having an FAQ hub with individual FAQ pages or having a blog where those can be question-related keywords is fine but the main goal with something like a blog is to build your topical authority (aka relevance) and help Google understand what your website is about. Blogging is just a really easy way to do that.

*(Disclaimer: I used voice to text via Wisprflow cuz I’m too lazy to type it all out)*