Let's say you have a website about finding animal shelters across the U.S. but the domain isn't keyword rich per se but sounds catchy and this is the main site on paid hosting. Now, in order to drive traffic to said site could you create mini site on a separate hosting company with a different domain name that's keyword rich like animalshelterfinder.com? Then on that site have links titled "animal shelters in Kansas" where upon clicking the user is taken to the main site with the cool domain name, separate hosting, but ultimately the actual content. In this way the domain itself would be keyword relevant. The anchor text to the main site would be relevant. And the user still ultimately gets the type of results they want, just from a different website. Theoretically, wouldn't using a separate web host make it seem like its different owners, especially if the main site never links back to the keyword rich domains.
It would still be getting detected somewhere along the line, the SE's are not that daft. But tbh there really is no need to do these things as unless you are up to something really shady all this SEO hosting stuff is nonsesnse. Your domain name its self says to me you really ought not to be worrying about such things and it sounds like you have been led astray by those up to shady practices to me.
What if I used a keyword rich sub domain such as findanimalshelters.domain name.com and then created unique mini sites on those subdomains.
Not quite sure I understand your question but those sub domains would be treated as domains going by those sub domain names. So for exampe (though I may be picking out the wrong company/domain here) google.ask.com or google.about.com is to some extent being seen as google and not ask or about. Obviously this isn't completely and strictly true as I am sure (if it is about or ask that has the google sub domain) that the likes of Google know about and compensate for such things or I should I say I suspect they could, but that is the essence of how sub domains are treated. Suspecting something (like they might compensate) however and proving it is another thing of course, but in essence sub domains are treated as domains going by that sub domain name, at least to some extent hence why blogger or other such things get ranked for words and phrases.
Okay. See I've come to understand that building doorway sites with keyword URLs is frowned upon. That said, I was thinking of just building my doorway sites with keyword rich sub domains under my main domain. The market I'm in (which has nothing to do with animal shelters per my example) is a highly competitive market. There are already lots and lits of sites dealing with my topic, or something similar. What I'm doing is taking a feature of those sites that's always been sort of secondary and making it the sole objective of my site. The problem is, I'm having trouble getting people to see my unique idea and a lot of the sites in my niche have not taken advantage of keyword rich domains because they've always been secondary features. Tonight I'll purchase a couple domains and then I can give away actual details of what my site is.
Erm tbh I am lost on this now it's gone off on a wholly diffrent thing if i am reading that right....
Okay. Let me try to sum it up. So Google doesn't like people to interlink sites and will take action against site owners who create multiple sites that deal with the same topic. My assumption was that Google would know the sites were all owned by the same person because of the server and being under the same host. My initial thought was the by interlinking sites on different web hosts would leave Google to believe they were different owners. The reason I wanted to do that was to create doorway sites with keyword rich URLs. But you replied the search engines are probably smarter than that. So, since creating mini sites on a different web host linking to my content probably isn't a good idea and buying up keyword rich domains under my existing hosting provider is a sure no no I was thinking of building these keyword rich domains as sub domains instead. But since Google views sub domains as separate sites would I be penalized for having multiple websites with the same topic even though they fall under the same main domain?
For example. Main domain: AniShelt.com (just a domain I made up). Cool name hosted in godaddy and deals with finding animal shelters. Trying to rank for keywords like "animal shelter finder" or "animal shelters in Alaska". So my initial thought would be to create a domain called animalshelterfinder.com but using blue host Instead of go daddy then putting a map of the u.s. on that site with links to anishelt.com pages for each state. But apparently that'd be negative for seo, so instead I was thinking to create animalshelterfinder.anishelt.com or animalshelteralaska.anishelt.com and then put a map on that sub domain with links to each state's anishelt.com page. In that way, everything is clearly owned by anishelt.com but the sub domains would rank well for specific search terms.