Using 200 domains to market one set of products

[Tmellis]

Hi,

I am looking for some advice - i hope someone can help.

I have acquired around 200 fantastic URL's in my business area and i am looking how best to use them.

I am thinking a range of websites would be best, some informational with links to our main site to boost SEO, some featuring our specific products e.g. (blue-widgets.com) featuring all our blue widget products, (norwich-widgets.com) featuring all of our Norwich widgets etc. All aimed at driving traffic and sales from one main site.

I know Google isn't going to like this but i genuinely want to make them interesting websites, good design and content, all selling our specific products.

Questions:

1. Will having the same IP for all 200 websites be bad? Will it reduce possible SEO and ranking in Google?
2. If so, would having close range IP differences (as hosted on the same server) make any difference to Google rankings?
3. Would it be worth the incured costs to pay for hosting on many different servers?

Thoughts and comments are all appreciated.

Thanks.

[g1smd]

Almost anything you do, unless your company is the size of Ford or IBM, is going to look a lot like spam.

Most of the stuff that you see recommended elsewhere is spam.

[ecmedia]

My experience shows that building one great website is all you need to succeed on the web. It is easy to add content and develop a brand with just one domain. 200 domains are unlikely to help you and will take too much effort to manage them. I am not sure that the benefit will be 200X.

[whitenight]

if you really want it to work, your best bet is separate C-class IPs.

good luck.

[HuskyPup]

Are you intending to have unique content on each URL?

Are your widgets sales aimed globally or nationally?

Are your widgets sourced globally or nationally?

Try this link for some advice:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[wheel]

If these are basically fresh domains with no history of content of backlinks, I personally wouldn't waste my time. (I've got many dozens of domains in my niche that I couldn't be bothered to use. Someday....). Your efforts would be better used elsewhere.

If they have history, distinct backlinks and content, then seperate IP addresses, seperate nameservers, seperate domain registration companies, privacy on the whois, and so on.

And ideally seperate content and layout. But realistically with something like that I'd probably initially consider a CMS like wordpress to manage all the sites.