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Common domain themes and crosslinking

         

Thirdcatgy

5:18 pm on Feb 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,

I'm interested in having multiple domains on a virtual hosting program with the only real difference in content being the actual location ( boston, ny, etc.) of the product. The plan is to have a central site which would link to each: www.widgets.com --- www.bostonwidgets.com - www.newyorkwidgets.com - etc.

My question is if search engines might frown on this, especially in virtual hosting environment? (If so, would separate IPs help?) I would prefer to have these individual addresses link up centrally (versus subdomains) however I'm a little concerned about previous crosslinking issues discussed in the forum.

Also along these same lines, would there be a problem with targeting unique keyword strings within each location?
For instance: www.widgets.com ---- www.nywidgets.com - www.nycwidgets.com - www.newyorkwidgets.com

Thank you in advance for any insight,

Billy

toolman

2:34 am on Feb 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The problem with the situation you describe is that I believe most of the se's are using a dupe filter in their routine algos now.

There would be little advantage to increasing your rankings by having only a few words different in each domain i.e, Boston, NY etc, with all the rest copy and pasted in each domain.

Unique content is the only way to go.

As far as the ip situation....I've never encountered a problem with virtual hosting as long as I wasn't linking excessively.

Thirdcatgy

4:27 am on Feb 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Makes total sense. Thanks for your comments.