Advice for a New Blogger

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by LocalWriteUps, Mar 23, 2010.

  1. #1
    I am trying to get some feedback on the following idea:

    What would be better:
    1) Having site with several unique, niched blogs (for example food.site.com, cars.site.com, SEO.site.com)
    or
    2) Get individual dn's (example food.com, cars.com, SEO.com)?

    I would love to hear your reasoning behind your answers as well :)

    Thanks!
     
    LocalWriteUps, Mar 23, 2010 IP
  2. shabbirbhimani

    shabbirbhimani Well-Known Member

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    #2
    I will prefer to select one niche and get off the ground before moving to the second because I never believe that $1 from each 100 blogs is equal to $100 from one blog.
     
    shabbirbhimani, Mar 23, 2010 IP
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    bloggingwithchris Peon

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    #3
    I am little bit confuse on your topic. can you explain it widely.
     
    bloggingwithchris, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  4. LocalWriteUps

    LocalWriteUps Peon

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    #4
    Certainly, what I'm trying to get at is I have a couple niches/topics that I want to write about (video games, tutorials, and employment-career advice). So, my question is: should I get one domain name, and create sub-domains (like videogames.site.com, tutorials.site.com) or is it better to just get separate domain names for each niche (videogames.com, tutorials.com).

    I'm curious to see what are the pros/cons to each option.

    Thanks again for being interested, would love your advice & feedback.
     
    LocalWriteUps, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  5. LocalWriteUps

    LocalWriteUps Peon

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    So, in essense, it would be smarter for me to just get a niched domain name, instead of a generic dn?
     
    LocalWriteUps, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  6. scheng1

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    do you have time to take care of a few blogs? Maybe you can try out with one niche blog, and see if you can update everyday. If yes, once that is established, you can start a second blog.
     
    scheng1, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  7. zk5182

    zk5182 Active Member

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    #7
    Pick on niche and blog ...you cant be an expert on all niches, once you get a hang of it then you can start another niche
     
    zk5182, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  8. LocalWriteUps

    LocalWriteUps Peon

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    @scheng1: I definitely have the time and want to launch several niche blogs.

    @zk5182: Thanks for the advice, I will consider this approach.

    I'm still not quite getting answers to my end-question: what's better -- several niche's under one domain name, or individual dn's per niche??
     
    LocalWriteUps, Mar 24, 2010 IP
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    I would think individual domains would be better.
     
    BarbaraACF, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  10. LocalWriteUps

    LocalWriteUps Peon

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    #10
    Thanks! Finally someone got to my question :D

    Is there any benefits to page rank, or other statistical, in having several subdomains? Or, does that hurt SEO... and ultimately the desired rankings, etc.?
     
    LocalWriteUps, Mar 25, 2010 IP