I have asked about this before, but hope nobody minds me raising it again. Having tried this out and thoroughly analyzed the results, I want to create a separate website for each of my clients products. There are approx 50 different totally separate product areas which are only very loosely related. At present, all products are on companyname.com. After introducing producta.com - sales for this product rose by 80%. I put this down to the physcology of having producta.com - a dedicated website to the product and not having to "find" the information on companywebsite.com. There were no SEO implications, as companyname.com is not ranking particularly well on the keyword and producta.com was sandboxed so the results were using MSN and Adwords. Having satisfied myself that this microsite way was the way to go, I’m bothered by how I can do this without getting bollocked by Google. I use asmallorange web hosting and I'm not sure of the best way to go about setting up these microsites. Asmallorange is shared hosting. If I create an account and split it up using reseller options - all my microsites will be on the same IP and I'm concerned this could be considered domain spamming. Asmallorange are unable to provide me with new C-Class IP addresses and I hear this against the IP regulators t.o.s anyway, as they should only be used for technical need and not the "vanity" of seo (there words not mine). If I create separate hosting accounts for each microsites, which asmallorange is cheap enough to do it with - I'm going to be taking pot luck as to what sites are on which IP and inevitably some sites will end up on the same IP. There is no heavy cross linking or black hat going on and I'm not really concerned with driving traffic from companyname.com to productA.com. But I am intent on the microsite way. There is inevitably going to be a little duplicate content and there is no way around this, for example “about†pages,"contact details" and technical details about the product where you can’t change the content. Perhaps I should consider removing these products from companyname.com to avoid duplicate content? How can I implement this without being bollocked by Google, because Adwords has got to be a short term thing until rankings can trim the spending right back. Hope that all makes sense and sorry for the long post! I’m actually loosing sleep over this so hope you can chip and help me out.
I think i would go with sub domains. Search engines would expect them to have the same ip address anyway
So create producta.companyname.com and point productA.com at this address? Would it be acceptable to then work on ProducA.com from an SEO viewpoint? Thanks.