I'm working on a website on exercise machines. I have some big plans with it, so it won't just be some low quality MFA. I already have an exercise machines website at www.exerciseheaven.com. This site is 1.5 years old or so and it has a PR of 2. I'm not getting a lot of visitors on it though, I think because back when I started out with it, I used gotlinks to promote it, which might have brought me a penalty. Still, even though it has a low count of visitors, I get around 60$ per month off it. My question is this. Should I build the new site on top of www.exerciseheaven.com and profit from the age of the domain and the PR2? Or should I start a completely new site and let this one just rot away. I'm afraid that creating the new website on top of the old one will also get the penalties from before. Any suggestions?
Why not continue expanding the one that's currently up? Instead of creating a new site with new content, just add your new content to the existing site.. that seems like the most logical solution in my opinion. I'm interested in reading what others suggest.
You want your keyword to be in your domain name. You could always have one site forward to the other.
Yes, if I use the same domain, I will do a redesign of the current site, but I'll still keep the content that's currently on there, plus add the new one. But despite the solid, unique content, I'm still not getting high SERPs for those pages. I suspect it was the gotlinks linkfarming that screwed me over Will this get passed on?
I would stick with what you've already started. You are being indexed by Google and Yahoo so I don't think you're being penalized for anything. Just use good link building techniques in the future and try to optimize the rest of your site so it is more SEO friendly. There seems to be a bunch of areas within the site you can still work on to help bring your search results up.
Go with another domain for the other site, then give the current one a face lift (and that does include a new, improved and aggressive, yet ethical marketing and promotion strategy). The two sites may possibly be related to each other, but I doubt they'd be in the same niche, so you should be fine. Just understand that you'll have to devote time to maintaining and promoting both sites if you choose to do this.
Definently go with the one you have. If you are getting google traffic, you are indexed in google, then dont worry about any bad seo practices. You are in, and in is it !! Go with the old domain and promote that. If you have a new one, you have to rebuild old back links. Or you could do both, you can do a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new domain, and get traffic from both SERPs of each domain.
Kingkahn, if I read the thread starter's post correctly, he's got two completely different Web sites in mind, but he's not sure whether to scrap the old one for the new one while using the same domain. And if that's the case, then doing what you suggested could cause some problems for those who naturally linked back to the old site, as well as those who had bookmarked the old site in the first place.
You should by another domain. if you are targeting more than 2 keywords in Domain name, Than you should use " A - B " between to keyword A and B, i.e. let Keyword Exercise = A and Keyword Training = B, if you are selecting exercisetraining.com it won't make any sense of keyword, rather than you should choose exercise-training.com so you can get two keyword A as a Exercise and B as Training... Thanks, SEM Company Australia Wide Span Sheds
I think I'll try your suggetions and give the old site a facelift and add the new content there. I have a link on wikipedia for it, which I doubt I could get again Chaitanya, I think keyword1keyword2.com and keyword1-keyword2.com are the same.
if you are already making money from this site, whether its only $60, i would keep that site and continue profiting from it. you can build a new site and link to that from your old site. since your old site is already ranked and old, you can pass some PR juice to the new site and also get a related backlink.