One niche site versus two seperate niche sites?

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    Hi everyone, hope the holidays treated everyone well.

    Have a question I am curious on.

    Is it better to break a niche site into smaller niche sites themself? Example, if you have a site selling widgets that sells blue widgets and green widgets is it better to keep the main site or to set up two different sites? one that would concentrate on blue widgets and the other green widgets?
     
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  2. wguttrid

    wguttrid Peon

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    Or to futher explain, if someone wanted to sell garden supplies and at first starts off selling garden hoses and then after some time starts selling shovels, and then even futher down the road starts selling rakes and so on so forth as there inventory builds up.

    Is it better to start with the a garden hose site and as you learn and grow just to open up additional online stores? Or would it be best to start with a main store and add inventory to that one site as you grow???
     
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    popedope Well-Known Member

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    Do it all in one site - your SEO efforts will not need to be replicated and as long as you do it all correctly, you shouldn't worry about being kicked off Google :)
     
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    Ya I like the one site idea better and as I grow and learn the better the site will be as the inventory builds up.

    Any other insight guys and girls?
     
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    dnk Well-Known Member

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    I prefer multiple sites, depends on who your competitors are
     
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    blackhumor Active Member

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    I prefer the one site...

    More pages, less SEO effort, more visitors... :)
     
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    jordanthegreat Active Member

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    One site. It is easier for you to manage. It is also better for the customer as they may want to buy both a garden hose AND a shovel and therefore would prefer to make all the purchases in one place. Or, they may go to buy a garden hose and, while browsing the site, see a shovel that they like and add that to the cart as well. An extra sale that you have otherwise not made if the shovels were sold on a separate site ;) .
     
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    Hey guys thanks for the information. Think for myself I will stick with one site and add inventory as I go. As I am new to this think I will have an easier time managing one site as well as doing all the SEO for one site. Also as mention hoping that a customer might see something else on the one site and make an additional purchase that he would not have been able to make if I had multiple sites!

    Thanks again, seems for every question I have I think of a couple more. lol.... Another item I can add to my plan and close off though about the mulitple versus one site.
     
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