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Old September 6th, 2006, 02:41 PM
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One Hugh site Vs. Clusters of niche sites
I'm working for a large high tech company as a full time SEO
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We have one main site (PR 6) and additional 21 sites which are either small niche sites which are related to the firms main theme and others which are local sites in different languages.

All sites are hosted on the same server and that cannot be changed for various reasons.

In addition the company has distributors all over the world.

There is a request to consolidate all the sites into one Hugh site.

My question to you SEO professionals colleagues , in terms of the ramifications on SEO, which option is better?

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Without knowing the details, one main site, as long as all content is themed and/or related, is usually the way to go. A mega-site will become a keyword magnet that will exponentially expand your potential keyword prescence. Your online competiveness can only be enhanced and such a site will also allow for incredible SEO and SEM focus, i.e. you look after the parent... all the children are gone.
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I used to build lots of hot dog stand sites... then I built a big site that whipped them all with a lot less work. Now almost all of my energy goes into just three sites.
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Without knowing the details, one main site, as long as all content is themed and/or related, is usually the way to go. A mega-site will become a keyword magnet that will exponentially expand your potential keyword prescence. Your online competiveness can only be enhanced and such a site will also allow for incredible SEO and SEM focus, i.e. you look after the parent... all the children are gone.


Thank you for your input, the question is if a separate domain name Niche site which is very focused and targeted and being
linked from the main site is not preferred by Google and the other SE.

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SEO_AM philosophy has my vote.

Pour all the content into a single domain and then 301 redirect all the other existing domains to the top level page of the new sub-sections will allow you to drive 'links' deep based on everyones specific interests.
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There is a request to consolidate all the sites into one Hugh site.

My question to you SEO professionals colleagues , in terms of the ramifications on SEO, which option is better?


without a doubt - one huge site. the ring of small sites will get u blacklisted in search engines. web rings are highly frowned upon.

also, there's an unnecessary depriciation of link value when transferring between sites.

one huge site has no bad points, so long as it's uptime is 100% and it's securely registered (if you lose it, you're buggered).

thus, concentrate on the huge site, with just a couple of smaller ones to divide your potential losses.
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