Niche Site Meaningless?

Is a "Niche Site" a waste of time?

[raveon]

Several post on the site talk about Google "seeing pages" not sites, they analyse the page not the site.

If I have 10 small niches sites on diverse topics then, if the facts above are correct, it should make no difference whether these sites are all on separate domains or they all exist on one website in different subdirectories or even subdomains.

Is this correct? Wouldn't this make the whole theory of "tightly focused" niche sites wrong?

Focused pages yes...Focused sites irrelevant.

I haven't been in the Forum for quite some time so forgive me if this is "old news" or is WAY of the mark.

[Brett_Tabke]

Themes/LSI has been a hot topic this last six months. If true, that moves us closer to g indexing sites in some measure instead of just pages.

[send2paul]

So - should we developing "Website SEO"? Are there certain techniques to achieving whole website ranking, (as opposed to webpage ranking), that we should be considering?

[Frequent]

While "niche" sites may not have much advantage currently with regards to the search engines they do have an advantage with regards to actual users.

If someone is looking for info on "red widgets" and they visit a site that has hundreds of pages of specifically red widget info they are likely to stay on the site much longer instead of just hopping back to do another search.

Also, niche sites have a much better chance of getting quality inbound links in my experience.

Freq---

[Gary_I]

I have also found that niche sites have far better adsense relevency across the site and therefore a higher ctr.

[spiral]

This is a bit off-topic, but one advantage of sharply focused niche sites is that they tend to do well in MSN.

[trimmer80]

I have always taken the approach of having many varied site styles. Some small niche, some large and broader. I have found that lately niche sites are harder to rank. This could change next week however. Build many sites, with different styles, different themes, different seo practices and large search engine updates are less likely to cripple you.