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I’ve noticed that many websites that rank high with one or two keywords have hundreds – perhaps thousands of pages. They have a lot of content per page.

Just wondering if someone has a website that is well optimized, relevant backlinks (in which does not help (my belief) – but I personally use it to gain referral traffic) and has at least a few thousand pages that have basically a thousand words per page (and pages are added every day) – will this website eventually become an authoritative site and possibly have the chance to rank in the top three of a two KW (popular) niche?

Please answer only if you have a website of this calliber or experience in building mega-sites. I’m not interested in people who "think" it should be this way or not – I’m not trying to be a jerk – just like to know what your EXPERIENCE of this is. Thank you.