should I nest my websites?

all from same industry

[rrl]

I build and position sites for many clients (around 100 and adding several per month) that are all in the same industry. For some of them, their terms are pretty competitive. When I roll a site out, I generally announce in on my site using their main search phrase in the hyperlink.

In almost all cases, my site (not the client's site) will rank at or near the top for that search phrase. Eventually, the client's will, also, but sometimes not as high. It generally takes alot more work to develop backlinks, content, etc.

So as an experiment, I rolled a site out and made it www.mydomain.com/newsite and forwarded their url into that directory. Their site popped up immediately and had my PR minus 1.

What I'm wondering is if I should make a habit of this and if in the long run adding several hundred pages to my site that are all focused on the same industry will help get my PR boosted and therefore the nested sites.

[Brett_Tabke]

Do a "target bio page". Build a page where you say flattering things about them with flattering photos of their product, and then link to them from that page. If all else fails, use their about page for that content. SE's won't see it as spam, duplicate, or suspect content. win win win.

[rrl]

I have that, that's how I roll out their site. I then have a portfolio page with a link and description of their site. Often times this portfolio page is among the top couple of listings for their primary set of keywords, sometimes ranking ahead of their site.