Comments on: Five reasons why you should have more than one web site

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By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:08:41 +0000

Sorry Chris, I mean to say that it is a good idea, but the reason of farming links for yourself is not it You know… this whole “doing the right thing for the wrong reasons” type of deal.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:47:44 +0000

I appreciate your argument, but I feel like you take it into a circle. In effect, you argue against my idea and then basically support it in your final sentence.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:30:53 +0000

Having 10 sites or so will not have a significant impact on Google’s PageRank. Besides, they can easily figure out a common owner and decrease the value of links. Worth yet, a larger network will be slapped with a title of “link farm” (it’s not like you’re the first to come up with such idea) and at this point you’re doing more worse than good.

Bottom SEO line is that you need quality links from related content and to get such, you’d need to start spreading your own content thin out. Bad.

The correct reasoning should have been to group related content under their own domains, as to have a number of strong, niche oriented sites. Good.

By: forum overzicht

forum overzicht — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:47:46 +0000

I linked several domainnames to my main site, in holland they cost around 1 euro for a country domain. You set the dns to the main and voila.

If you think about it, some populairnames get hits from people who just try out the domainname. Sometimes it can get you an extra 50 visitors. Not bad

And then there’s always people who have domainnames so that when you mistype existing names you get on their site. I’m not sure how many google has but alot gooogle gogle etc

By: ffl

ffl — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:08:32 +0000

engines will sometimes detect duplicate content, so be careful making duplicates. Not a bad idea to build multiple sites though. They become ugly over time but traffic will keep coming in. Just dont try to build them all at once

By: Online Marketing Mentor

Online Marketing Mentor — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:20:55 +0000

Great ideas here. It’s better to fire more than one shot in order to really succeed online.

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By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:53:11 +0000

Another idea I have is to create a national company out of thin air. It would be so easy to do. I’ve tossed the idea of creating a national real estate firm or maybe even an insurance company (something that I can use generic imagery on). You could create it in a few days including the design and copywriting. If you had a dozen sites you could link it up and start getting some leads through it. It would be quite funny really.

I could also do this locally, for example, create a number of design firms out of thin air and create great sites for them. That could get messy though, that’s why I haven’t done it.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:50:18 +0000

Steve – I’d say that the main benefit to me besides SEO efforts has been that I’m an expert in a variety of fields and it’s allowed me to connect with people. Then they want to do business with me. In a number of ways I don’t know where my sites will be in 5 years. I’m sure though that I’ll be a lot farther along than if I hadn’t started these sites.

A good example is my ArizonaCoffee.com site. I started that and just kept posting. It has taken me about a year to get to this point (site is one year old next month). For the first 9-10 months the site had an ugly layout, nothing fancy, but it drew a crowd.

You just have to start. But at the same time, you have to be passionate about the topics you plan to write about. That’s the trick. Coffee for me is a lot of fun. So I did it and it works great. Another site of mine is Ketchup Week and that site hasn’t hit its peak yet. My hope is that it will towards the end of this year once I put it through a Tornado redesign.

By: steve mcfarland

steve mcfarland — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 01:44:09 +0000

Is there more to this than the SEO benefit? I’m still undecided about how much I want to invest in that element of web design, and a dozen domains certainly exceeds my mental SEO budget, unless there are other reasons (that can’t be accomplished with subdomains, like the specialty-site concept).

By: alexander

alexander — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:36:19 +0000

If you keep all websites at the same host this is something google will take notice of and because of that lower the importance of the links from the other sites (since they can see that its (likly) the same person owning them all).

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:53:54 +0000

Okay, I shudder at the thought. You have suddenly doubled (at the minimum) your content management/maintenance. You have diluted your brand, although I will acknowledge that you refer to a master site. God forbid you have localized/translated content anywhere out there.

From a usability standpoint, if you’re cross-linking all of these sites you’re going to impact the experience once the user arrives.

I applaud the DYI effort here, but I’m missing something. I wouldn’t apply this strategy to client sites.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:35:15 +0000

Very good points. Link building is the most worthwhile (but difficult) task when it comes to bringing in traffic to new sites. But when you have multiple sites yourself, you can easily manage the quality (and targeting) of those links.

Good post