Thanks for that, I didn’t expect someone to have asked that question in another branch of the thread. I will read the whole thread next time. Cheers. FFMG
it works very well, with poor content or good design, CTR can be high and if the theme is good you can make some bucks. The only issue is getting some traffic, i'm working on it now. As for the site/hosting, my registrar (directi) has a DNS manager service (extra $0.5/year) that allows you to point the domain to their nameservers and from there to any IP. So I have all minisites in a single $7/month hosting account from a very good company, and use rewrite to keep the URL clean. Works nicely. As for own domain vs. subdomain... well, the big difference is that you can sell the domain.
If you setup adsense channels for each domain, this enables you to view the total no. of page impressions for a site.
What's the deal with ip stacks? is it really bad to have lots of sites hosted on one server and link between them? I'd like to have a server where I can set up a site and link to it from a related niche but there seems to be a lot of differing opinions on where Google looks down on these links as less "valuable" as they are from the same IP range. Does anyone know the real answer to this?
GoogleGuy says Google never bans IP addresses. Since I moved to a dedicated server I've always had all my sites on one IP address. I've had domains on the same server that range from being #5 out of 44,500,000 or #3 out of 46,100,000, to looking like it's banned.
Definately not a good idea to go overboard interlinking on the same IP address. It wouldnt be too hard for the SE's to figure out...
Not all of them at once. I got around 70 domains, and I'll do maybe 10 links in the footer or header. Many network sites link to there own sites, like devshed.
If they are going to crack down on anything it will be reciprocals (imho) they are easily checked. Avoiding being spotted as a recip it isn't difficult to setup your own site network such that you have to go through a dozen sites or so before getting back to the first. G will not penalise sites on the same IP address - why ? It's simple, many big hosting companies use a single IP address (or perhaps 2 or 3) for the front end gateways to their clusters. The clusters can and do host 10's of thousands of sites. Google do exactly the same, each datacenter IP hides many many machines. To differentiate between sites in such circumstances means looking at whois data and comparing it - not easy as you can hide the information with many registrars. Scott's site is proof that a domain name can make a big difference to how much money a site can make. protesto: depends on the domain name of your PR5 site. If it's a generic type name, then you can easily hang subdomains and folders on to it. If the domain name is specific then the subdomain might just look stupid - a domain like supercars.com would look daft with a subdomain like medicalterm.supercars.com where as it would work fine with a domain name like information.com. If you want to run multiple subdomains/folders, then pickinga generic domain name is pretty important (imho) - and the best are already gone.
When you say crack down on recips... wat are you referring to by saying crack down. Place less importance on them, or something else?
Are you taking the piss? I've seen you advocating the use of recips on this forum... so if your not taking the piss im hell confused.
oh yeah, next update everyone who trades links, uses link vault, the coop , got links, everyone who buys links, makes sites for adsense They all we be gone, its the new meek will in inherit the earth seo style
That last part confused me even more... but yeh your taking the piss... I've always been of the belief recips will always be beneficial. If at some stage the SE's did place less importance on them in their ranking algo, they still drive relevant traffic, so it would be foolish to stop getting them.
ROFL. By crackdown I mean place less importance on them (or even totally ignore them). I don't see it happening personally. Sites with similar themes have always linked to each other and always will. dcristo: although ferret77 was joking ( I think ), what he says does point out that we're all guessing. G could do whatever they want and trying to pre guess what they will do next is pointless. You just need to be in a position to jump either way when/if the time comes. Ferret77: G are going to drop everything other than sites that produce <10% CTR, regardless of what type of site it is editted: wrong way pointy thingy.
Some good advice I see what you mean. I'm just throwing up discussion to see what everyone thinks about the issue. ferret is gonna have to tell me when he's serious and not so serious, cause the guy/gal confuses me with their sarcastic remarks