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Is there any advantage when building free sites to buy a new domain for each new site? I build quite a few and I have found no traffic benefits from buying a new domain for each new site. But maybe I am missing something :)

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Maybe not for each site but if you are doing different niches it might be a good idea to buy keyword specific domain names for each niche.. :2 cents:

i may be totally wrong here, but if you interlink each domain name, it could be good for search engine ranking.

There are many advantages:

Easy to remember name for the surfer
Shorter URL
SEs appreciate different names
It's more professional
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:2 cents:

I know guys who have just left up the old domains and pages and still getting traffic from them.

But then they do have great content. :1orglaugh

No, not needed.

No need for multiple domains.

Directories do help with SE targetting...


We need some more free site building partners!
Hit my program up, use my original content and get paid every week!

Total bullshit

and most of his other reasons were about as intelligent as well.

And just in case anyone thinks I am being unfair to our professional friend do the maths on this.

He says that you should buy a new domain name for every free site that you build.

The expert free site builders turn out a free site every day. So that is at least 7x$9.00 - to keep the figures nice and round for each week.

That equates to a cost of over 3k for the first year just for domain names.

For the second year you can double that figure because you have the renewal costs for all those domains you bought in the first year plus the cost of 365 new domains for the second year.

Now you can see why smp's advice is not even worth :2 cents:

I've been building free sites on a regular basis since 1999 - I have precisely 3 domain names that I use for free sites. I have numerous free sites on page one for various good SE terms.

:winkwink:

Thanks for the replies.

There's some good information there :thumbsup

subdomains an do the same work much cheaper

lol


the answer hell fucking no,just have on the root a hub or something then use different directories for you freesites

root/petite/keywordfolder/ etc. this is what i do...i alternate between 4 domains

edit- you mean freesite(index,main,2-10pic galleries) right

great post, i was wondering the same thing... I just started doing free sites a week or so ago, got a good collection built up that I will be submitting after the first of the year.... :thumbsup

:1orglaugh


I didnt mean that kind of sites:thumbsup

Who has some examples of some of the bigger freesites out there?

Do you have ICQ/AIM/MSN?

I think it used to be extremely important for the search engines, but from the looks of it I don't think it matters anymore. Most of the top ranked pages on google are now like http://blahfreakingblah.biz/blah-ble...bber-blat.html

Depends on how you set up your pages.

As the other Steve said dont go on anything you have seen so far in this thread.Many of the so called tips are a waste of time if not actually harmful.
If we are talking about Google and we should be as they are the only one that counts at the moment they want you to have bigger sites with more content covering more niches rather than lots of little ones.

Thanks for all the replies :thumbsup

Hi Swami. Have you any urls of what you think Google calls a bigger free site?

Thanks.

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That has not been my experience.

Swami - are you going to be on the Gold Coast for the Aussie webmaster convention in January?

Just look at whats placing in the serps at the moment.They are hub sites that have become an authority site that google give a lot of respect to.One of the google reps at the last SEO conference last month said they google wanted people to build bigger sites rather than a lot of little ones.
Probably not ,the other Steve.I am not far away as I live on the sunshine coast but it seems more like a blokes weekend and I am a shy retiring sort of girl.:Graucho

There's still money to be made in this space.

Pity you're not going - Marie and I wouldn't be if we thought it was just going to be a 'blokes' weekend.

We're in Hervey Bay so if you're ever up this way give us a shout and we can get together for a coffee.