I am noticing more and more as time passes that in the race to #1 in Google some people are getting rid of subpages and linking to new keyworded domain names. For example, you might have a model toys website. rcmodelsnewyork.com and you get clever and have an index of say model boats model cars model aircraft etc, you get the drift. but what I see happening out there is rather than this rcmodelsnewyork.com/modelboats.html you get this rcmodelboatsnewyork.com What is happening is clear, Google gives a lot of weighting to URLS that have the keyword in them, so webmasters in stead of having 5 subpages are having 5 new domains all linked. As you mouse over the index you see all new url's. Some time ago I wrote to Google and received no response as to what their thoughts are on this trend, are we as webmasters going to have to do this to stay ahead? I know from competition on my sites that some are creating dozens of new domains keyword stuffed to get higher in SERPs. What's your thoughts? We all know that if 2 sites had equal links, equal content, equal tenure and were pretty much the same Google would favour the keyword stuffed domain. Thanks.
well it's certainly an interesting approach, will work great to a certain extent, but cannot work with every possible site.. what if u have thousands of products, u are not going to create thousands of sites or are u.
Oh, personally I think the whole thing sucks, but it is being used by people, they are dividing their sites up into many URLs. I agree, large sites would be tough but smaller sites, maybe sites upto 10 pages this is viable and happening. Google isn't smart enough yet to see that whois registration details, also the webmaster could put the other sites in different names, of course different servers and IP addresses will give more link juice too.