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I have a large number of newish unused domains which have been parked, not earning any money and aren't in any search engines. I want to put up 1 page of content for each site with adsense and 1 forsale link back to a new domain which is intended to sell these domains over time (of course). I'd just like to get a few pennies from them in the meantime, and if anything shows promise I'll develop it some more. The new domain sales site will link back to each of these 1 page domains. I'd then attempt to get the domain sales site indexed by the search engines, which of course would then filter thru to these other domains.
Because of budget constraints I originally thought to have 1 hosting account for the domain sales site and put all the 1 page domains either on a sub-domain or as a folder for the domain sales site. But as I understand it this would be considered too spammy for the search engines. Yes/No?
How to over come this? Would 2 Hosting accounts with different hosts in different locations, one for the domains and 1 for the domain sales site, do the trick?
Any other suggestions?
But as I understand it this would be considered too spammy for the search engines.
YES.
If you just want to earn some money out of your unused domains then Google AdSense for Domains would be a better option instead of making a one page site with AdSense into it.
If your sites generate more than 750,000 page views per month, AdSense for domains is for you.
I'm looking for a way to get them into the search engines so they might generate some traffic (and a few clicks). It seems to me that by having the selling domain indexed with links to the individual domains, then they would get spidered also. I'm being realistic here also, no great expectations.
Anyhow, the main thrust of my question still remain unanswered. How to set this up hosting-wise so as to not appear spammy to the search engines. I'm not trying to cloak any spammy behaviour here, I just want to avoid any difficulties which I'm aware are out there with regards to linking groups of domains. I'm not looking to link all the domains to each other, just a straight up-n-down reciprocal link between each individual domain and the selling domain.
For all the unused domains, I will suggest that you go for hosting each of them on to a different IP/Server and make a one-page website out of it.
The advantage will be that it will be having a very high weight for your keywords used on those one page sites and Google will happily rank it high on SERPs (Although it will take some time indexing your new domains).
Downside is that you will have to lookout for hosting (n) numbers of your unused domains. You can opt for many free domain-hosting providers or go for a small package of web hosting.
Just keeping your selling domain on a different IP will not do the trick and you might get banned by Google for spamming!
I appreciate the selling domain has to be way removed from the other domains. But isn't there some other compromise solution for all these other domains? 1 hosting account for them, each in their own sub-domain for example, and each domain/page/sub-domain with 1 link to the selling domain? I guess that sounds too spammy too. Any other thoughts appreciated.
Good luck.
No problem with the keywords etc, most of them are entirely different subjects except for maybe those where I have both the singular and plural of the domain name.
I agree with the subdomain solution but you have to have substantial (at least 30 pages) of content to justify the sub-domain.
Why is the volume of pages important?
