Hello, This SEO stuff is worse than golf. Just as you think you understand something it changes)))) For months now with some success I have been getting SEO work done on my main Translation site. As an extra, I put a 1 page simple site on my domain www.livetranslator.net only a few days ago and already I am #8 on Bing with 4 visitors today, all of them then proceeding to my main site. So, does one put up lots of mini sites focusing on the domain rich keywords or re-direct the domain?
Why do you want to do this whole mini sites and then sending visitors to your domain, are you selling affiliates or something. Else, best is to promote and SEO your main money site or business site and create mini sites at Web 2.0 properties and send articles to article sites all with linkbacks to your main site/business site/money site. Create keyword rich pages on your domain and build backlinks to it, that should help you better.
To clarify, my main site is Liveonlinetranslation as per my signature but we currently only do English-Russian-English translations but plan to offer other language pairs later. My thinking is that the mini sites I have built and others I might still build will act as both an easier SEO job and as a filter. We receive many visitors looking for 1 word translations so most of them won't be long term paying customers. I therefor set up a site www.howtosayinrussian.com for those looking for "how to say hello in russian" and will place advertising/content hoping to send some relevant customers on to the main site. I also have the domain www.onlinerussiantranslation.com but don't want to make that my main site with future plans in mind. Other domains I have are :- englishrussiantranslation.net englishrussiantranslator.net russiantranslationonline.net russianwordfor.com meaninginrussian.com All keyword rich domains.
maybe G will see your strategy as a link farm - spamdexing may cause problems for you in the near future.
WOW! Don't want that of course. So to redirect or mini sites? www.Russianwordfor.com and www.meaninginrussian.com have legitimate basis' for existing. They will answer the top 50-100 queries for specific words in Russian. They'll also have phonetic playback as www.howtosayinrussian.com has now (still in progress).