Satallite Sites

I have registered domains with 6 sites with good keyword searchable domains for satallite sites.

On these sites I will put unique content.

I hear you cry 'focus on your main site' and 'these sites will have page rank 0 and will not carry any value' I no. But the ideas is to drive traffic through more than anything rather than for page rank purposes. Furthermore, im doing what my boss tells me to do.

So I am goin ahead with the satallite sites. Whether this is a waste of time or not. Its happening.

What I wondered was the best way of going about it.

Each site has a different host. And the same template. But the content on each will be different. So each site, 1 way link to main site.

I will also optimize each site as much as possible.

Is there any thing else anyone can think of to further optimise/drive/increase???

Cheers

6 sites x 2 hours SEO a day - 12 hour days ahead for you

Good luck.

But seriously, why are satellite sites still the favourite thing to do for ill informed MD's? They just cant help themselves can they.

Tips:

1) Get some good, cost effetctive writers off get-a-freelancer
2) Build an SEO friendly CMS system so they can load the content.
3) Pay a link builder to build links in (these sites are not your brand so this is not too bad).
4) Set up a sign-up on each site to get some decent mailing lists.
5) Don't get caught in the trap of thinking that one day you will be able to link from these PR5 beauties back to your main site, because by the time you get there SEO will have moved on.
6) Talk your boss out of doing this.
7) Learn how to sleep 3 hours a night

Google is starting to look at the html code in terms of design. I would make sure they are all designed differently.

I think links will be a massive part of SEO for many years to come, but other then that all valid points .

Have you got info on this? Am interested to know more if you do.

Just want to check that you are doing this right:

Did you register the domains with unique names, email addresses and other info?

Are you going to keep all these sites independent of one another (no interlinking)?

Is there anything on these sites that indicate that they are owned by the same person e.g. email addresses, affiliate id codes etc.

You mentioned that they all use the same template, won't your competitors be able to instantly tell that all of these sites belong to the same person and are all pointing links to your site. They will find out when they check your sites links.

Tread carefully and good luck!

All the addresses are registered to us. Were not trying to hide the fact we own them, and are branding each site with our logo. I don't mind if competitors know that there ours.

Is it not a good idea to interlink them? I thought it was a probable no no. But is it a definate? this is one of the questions I wanted to resolve by opening this thread.

Well if this is the case then you are walking a fine line. Google will allow limited interlinking between your own sites, but you could get penalized if you overdo it.

If these sites are for referrals and not links then nofollow the links to your main site and go wild.

If they are for links, then take the time to draw a diagram of what you propose to do. Then draw a diagram of what natural linking looks like. Compare the 2 and base your decisions on that comparison.

lol....


Explain to your boss about ROI and Opportunity cost...

Wow, I am glad I found this thread. I have 3 sites all with unique content and over the past 2 weeks I was interlinking them. I was purely linking them because I believe my readers would be interested in my other 2 sites. I just spent the last 30 minutes adding 'no follow' to ~ 100 links. I hope it's not too late because my main site has nice organic traffic. I'm learning!

Good move, glad you found the forum in time. Why take the chance when so much hard work has gone into those projects.

This sounds just like what a recent client I have picked up has done. Drop me a PM and I will give you some info on this and you may have some interesting feedback for your boss.