Mega site? or lots of little ones?

[Mark Hazeldine]

Hi, this is my first post! Hi to everyone.

My plan WAS to build a huge mega site for mainly adsense and a bit of Amazon plus another affilite program. I am going into a HUGE niche, well it's not even a niche, it's a multi billion $ industry, BUT contains several hundered niches within it. I was planing to have one domain, and slowly build the site up, one little section/niche at a time until it's huge.
But i read recently that it's better to have tons of little sites all linked together. Or, even, NOT linked together (to reduce options to not click on the ads). I wonder whether this route is cost effective though, because it involves buying many more domains and hosting accounts, which surely would make my costs higher?

So my question is, should i make one mega site, or about 200 reasonable size ones, or even both? And see which does best? What are the pros and cons of each?

Thanks, Mark

[farmboy]

Well in that case, is cross linking bad?

I refer you back to message #25 in this thread.

Try reading this thread - [webmasterworld.com...]

Then do a Google search for crosslinking penalties.

If you want to believe it's not a concern, you can find plenty of support for that belief. If you want to believe it is a concern, you can find plenty of support for that belief. And if you want to believe it's a murky topic, you can find plenty of support for that belief.

FarmBoy