I am looking to put up 500 or so custom landing pages for URL's I own. I know that many have put up directories with template based step and repeat software where all the pages look basically the same but have different titles and domains. What do you guys recommend as far as page design programming and hosting 500 or so pages on the same hosting package? Let me know how this can be done in the most efficient manner if you would.
Well, WebHostingBuzz.com have a great package that will allow you to place all the sites under one account. It's real cheap too... In terms of design and information, I don't know what you want these pages to do so it's a bit tricky to say. I could knock together a template for them if you'd like, so long as you give me an idea of what you want from them...
Well the following is a name that I lost because of mis-management, look at what they did with the domain when they picked it off. www.railroadsites.com
So is that what you'd like for your domains then? You looking to directly generate revenue from them?
Yep, but if you just wanna get them all online, then that's probabally one of the cheapest ways to do it.
A landing page is just that, a page that links to other pages/sites/affiliate programs, I would like to put Adsense on each page, be able to customize the text a bit for each respective domain. Most of these landing page hosts do it automatically but I would want to be able to customize each page myself somewhat. See www.fordvanparts.com This is an automated landing page service I have about 60 names with these guys and you don't make nothing so I need to work my own program where I can move ahead.
Sure, I know what a landing page is, I just wanted to know exactly what you wanted... One good idea might be to use an RSS parsing script for content on the domains... You basically put in a whole munch of URL's that you'd like to pull content from and then it's published on the page... It updates on the fly, and would give you a little bit of munch for SE's... You'd just need to make sure that the RSS feeds are targetted to what it is you wanna be getting sales / clicks for... It's not the best SEO in the world, but It's certianly better than a kick in the teeth... Alternativly, you could do a DMOZ import and run ads on the pages, but Dup content is gonna be more of an issue with that than it would be with the RSS feeds...
What is the best way to host such pages after they are built, would one use 500 URL's, one for each page or like Shawn puts up his pages as sub domains of DP? What is the best way to do it for search engines and Adsense. I remember the goon from Zeezo was using all subdomains with automated templates that were programmed in .net
Well, the best way to do it would be to get 500 seperate ip's, 500 sites, and 500,000 pages of content written, but that's just not gonna happen If you just want a landing page, then I would personally use the RSS parser to keep content updated, and just have a simple, stock template that only needs to be tweaked for each site. But It's your stuff Anthony - I don't know what you want the end result be be for you...
Seems like there is another question about the same subject here at DP, look at this thread. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=8395 So what you are saying is to use content imported from other sites via a RSS feed, right SE? What about the best way to host so many pages and different domains, would using sub-domains be the best way or simply URL forwarding, right now most of the names are being forwarded into www.internetnamebank.com
The best way? Or the easiest way? The best way IMHO. Sit down and code 500 pages, all content rich, simply designed and easy to navigate. Google recognizes templates, duplicate content, similar and nonsense pages.. For the most part anyway.. They catch it eventually! Besides taking the time will pay off many more times over. It's worth it to do it right.
I'm suspicious about how Google treats sites like this.. . They are a dime a dozen. I leave the moment I land there. Others may not, and probably click on a sponsored link or two. Anyway, the leakers that makes sites like this group thousands of them by taking domains that expired and registering them dirt cheap. They try to ride on the possible popularity or previous ranking/PR and or backlinks hoping to profit off of mis-directed sponsor clicks. The only way this is profitable is if there are, as I said, literally thousands of domains involved. I mean look at railroadsites.com.. No PR, no Back Links, nada, nothing... Worthless. Too bad though. That would make a good name for those of us in the model railroading world
Well, the real question is how you would set up the URL's and DNS for that many pages/domains for the best SEO. As SE mentioned you could have content from RSS that would automatically change the keywords in the text so you would have a lot less duplicate content problems that way.
I have been doing keyword.domain.com. Though I have also done a mix of domain.com and domain.com/page.html, domain.com/site1/index.html, etc.. and a bit of keyword.domain2.com and keyword.domain3.com. All of this to make sure as many will tell you "don't have all my eggs in one basket." As for the RSS feeds.. I'd make sure to use javascript to code out the outbound links you have, and if there is a way, try to hide the inbound links from the feed itself.. Google will catch it IMHO.. Anyway, I think that would be a bit penal.
I wrote a script that generates 100 landing pages based on 20 relevant sentences, 10 relavant keyword phrases and 20 main keyword phrases. And Google loves the pages. I ran the script for my site at the beginning of the month and if you do a search for 'perl programmer miami', I'm number 13 I'm pretty sure I can adjust that script generate 500 unique landing pages.
It's not really ready for release yet (not very user-friendly at the moment). I'm planning to create a nice web interface for it and figure out a way for it to generate me an income. I don't plan on going anywhere so you'll see the announcement here, I'm sure.