Documentation to back up strategy for satellite sites
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Hi,
I am planning on launching satellite sites.
From my understanding I should have unique IP addresses and a different template than my main site to avoid duplication and separate from the main site.
Any good articles I could use as documentation to back up what I am saying?
(or if people think I should be doing things differently feel free to pitch in with that as well)
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HI,
Personally I would stay away from satellite sites - very dangerous ground that can back fire very easily.
What I would suggest is focus all efforts that are you planning to put into the satellite sites and build one single competitor site for your main site - and don't inter link (at least not just yet).
Build this new site - you can call it a satellite domain if you want - but act like is a stand alone site with his own path in life
When this site will have authority and only then, link to sites in the industry including yours if you still want to send most of the PR to your current main site. You can even link to competitors if you want to but don't link to the pages that you fight for
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