site with many topics

bad for cross-site page rank?

[Rischen]

Hi,

I'm beginning to wonder about something.

I've set up a site that reviews various different online goods and services. Is that a bad idea to have different topics on one site? Can it effect page rank? Should a site rather focus on one particular thing?

My site does consumer reviews across a wide range of categories. All the reviews pages are one link away from the home page and all are optimized for phrases that are relevant for what I want to return but since links will generally come to my home page and its optimization on things like 'reviews and comparisons service' will I not get good PR on my actual reviews pages that optimize for say 'cheap website hosting' and 'free mp3's', etc. Or am I okay with links just coming to my home page and the bots will take the vote and spider my different pages for the content they have. It's something that confuses me. You often find a site with high PR on a page that obviously doesn't get linked to.

So, in a nutshell :) is it okay to have a site with lots of different topics. As you can see, I'm a bit worried and would appreciate your advice.

Thanks,

Rischen

[troels nybo nielsen]

Dealing with many different topics will not harm your website. Not directly, at least. But you may miss some advantages that you might have gained by keeping your website more strictly on one specific topic. I do not think you ought to worry, though. Just go ahead and build a good website.

[goodroi]

You can have one site with multiple topics as long as you have significant content for each topic. Using Webmaster World as an example, it deals with many different topics and each topic has thousands of pages with relevant content.

[mack]

What I have done in th epast is to use subdomains for each content area. Each area is run almost like a unique site, they do however share the look and feel and th emain www site acts as an entrypoint for the different content areas.

I feel this helps each mini site retain a theme.

Mack.

[Rischen]

Guys,

Thanks so much for your help and thoughts. I feel a lot better.

I appreciate your time,

Rischen