Comments on: Whitehat VRE Empire: Why Multiple Sites Make Sense

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:15:44 +0000

Khaled: Strictly speaking, separated IPs is better, yes, but if you’re doing whitehat stuff I don’t feel it matters that much. The key is to only interlink sites that are related… then it doesn’t matter what the IP addresses are.

By: loans

loans — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:32:54 +0000

Great point. I hadnâ€™t really thought much about how people make bank off of those free services.The sub-domains though have their own domain name and are treated as separate sites.

By: Cincinnati SEO

Cincinnati SEO — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:51:21 +0000

Very excellent article. I’ve always found multiple sites to be absolutely vital in any SEO campaign. One other benefit is that sometimes you never really know what’s going to strike a chord with prospective customers, and testing multiple sites/domain names/layouts/ad copy all help to narrow in on higher conversion rates.

By: Khaled Alwan

Khaled Alwan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:53:24 +0000

Do you host the multiple sites on shared hosting, or purchase a different hosting package for each mini site? If they all have the same IP address would it not reduce the effectiveness of what you are trying to achieve.

By: Website Design

Website Design — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:59:20 +0000

Though I agree in many cases having multiple niche sites is better than have one big catch-all site. It really depends on the topic and type of site. I run a movie website that we have chosen to make big instead of break it up. The benefit is we have all the user data tied into everything.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:13:50 +0000

Another positive to multiple sites is that it is less risky. Some sites will perform better than others. If you only have one site and choose a bad topic then you have invested all your time and energy into a dud.

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:19:17 +0000

Some people say .info domains are penalized, some say they aren’t… best advice is to try it for yourself and see, I guess.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:23:04 +0000

Godaddy (and maybe others) allows registration of .info domains for only $0.99 for the first year, so I’ve been using those a lot to get the so-called “keyword rich” domain names.

What I don’t know is if .info domains are penalized at all from an SEO perspective, in addition to the fact that I’m only registering them for 1 yr (which I hear the search engines don’t like as much as longer registrations).

By: The Single Black Woman

The Single Black Woman — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:43:24 +0000

So this was actually my plan..building a network of blogs that could utilize either adsense or payperpost as it’s primary source of income…I had a couple of blogs set up but I realized ’cause of the time constraints and what I like to write about it was difficult to pull off now.

I’m (sort of) doing the flagship blog bit but the problem with that is that the current time constraints are also hampering those efforts as well.

I’m going to have to think about this some more…though I like your series and will come back to read the rest and keep up on what ‘s to come.

By: Manfred

Manfred — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:31:17 +0000

I thought Google Media and Google SEO spiders work separately. In order to avoid conflicting situations. For instance: The SEO spiders could give an unfair advantage to websites with Adsense.

If thatÂ´s not the case then it would be of no use to get get multiple hosting accounts, in order to get different IPs.