Many niche sites ... or 1 site with niche categories ?

Hey all,

I was wondering about the following ... I have a few niche ideas wich in fact are reasonably related to each other...

I was wondering if it would be a better idea to have a seperate website for each category , or if it would be ok in order to have 1 site with for instance multiple niche subjects,...

Then I would treat these categories as seperate sites and try to attract traffic for each category as if it were a different site ....

Is this strategy correct?

Onesolo..

 

I like the multi-site concept... but its hard to mantain

 

Yes ... But why do you like that more than a catagorised site ?

 

well if you want to have multiple niches on the same domain you'll have to set homepages for all: subdomain1.domain.com, subdomain2.domain.com etc or even domain.com/directory1 , domain.com/directory2 etc... but if you want different site for each niche you'll have just domain1.com, domain2.com etc whick looks much better...

also the domain name should be related to the niche and it's kinda hard to find a domain name good for different niches (unless you want a brand, something like yahoo but it will be hard with SEs)

just my opinion

 

i agree to drhyperlaur, domain names should contain your primary keywords, and its harder to get a domain with desired keywords in it now. however you can put your keywords in your sub domain easily. plus ease of management. though i wont recommend your-domain.com/niche1 etc (sub directories) as SEs reward sites with their primary keywords in their domain (including subdomain) above directory levels.

 

build one but start and work well on one before starting another sub project.

 

i think that multiple sites are better. this way, if one of your three categories fails, the other two have chances to make some revenue. if it was all in one site, visitors will feel unsure what type of site they are veiwing if your categories are wide-range meaning one is food, one is technology, and one about parenting for example.

 

It is good to have multiple site if all is related. Then, visitor maybe able to browse longer with relavant site.

 

Is that really true? It seems that you can take almost any domain name and prepend or append something to it and bam... It's available. Googlebot is not going to really care.

 

Yes, you can do that, as long as the keywords are in it.

 

I would go with multiple sites with multiple keyword domains... it will be harder to maintain and you will need more time.

 

different sites.

would you invest all your money in one stock?

 

If you're just starting out, I'd recommend one site with the topics as subfolders, not subdomains (but the topics must be closely related). It's tough to get momentum going in this internet game when you're first starting out. Having several sites just dilutes your focus. Focus your time and money on one site and build it up with good content rather than spending time managing and building links for several sites.

 

I agree. One site with different categories is going to be easier to maintain that lots of different sites. I have a niche site on dog agility but there are several different topics on it and it works very well. There is a section on dogs' names for example. Children who visit the site love to send me the names of their dogs to add to the list.

 

Some hosts (like hostgator) you can use domain forwarding with subdomains, so example you could have www.rugbyworldcup.ws and www.springboks.ws , but springboks.ws actually just displays springboks.rugbyworldcup.ws . I like this idea because you can still have related topics in one website, that is just a forward from the actual domain name. How about that ?

 

multiple sites will dobetter in the long run IMO

 

I am creating a new blog after a so-so success of the first one. Multiple sites allow better customized content sites hence better positioning and branding!

 

If feasible, the multi site approach works better. You have more stability as well as you are spreading risk across multiple sites (drop in SERPs, etc)

 

If I was you, I'd build one website and work on content content content and once thats earning steadily then you can experiment with new websites. I would however pick seperate domains for all of them.

 

I believe that it looks more professional to have separate domains, instead of using sub-domains. There are instances when a sub-domain would still be appropriate. An example would be if you had a membership site, use the sub-domain to give more access and content.

Good luck with your sites.

Charlie Plyler