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I appreciate your help. I saw the SEOmoz article this morning, thought it was appropriate

Andy

I appreciate your help : )

So for instance, if I write an article about a brand of truck bed liner, would I:

A: Create as many niche categories as I can to add that article, all relating to the topic of bed liners?

B: Pick a single, easy to rank for category for that article?

Pick a single category that readers will most likely recognize for that article?

Lastly, is there a good strategy I should be using for tags? Or should I leave tags alone?

Thanks again!

In the past I've done fairly well building niche sites for automotive accessories. The problem is, it's hard paying attention to 50+ sites after a while, and the quality ends up going down.

Because of this, I've decided to focus on one large site for trucks and their accessories. I have a site called truckprofile.com where people can create profile pages for their various trucks. It gets fair traffic for not doing much with it. I recently threw a blog on the site: truckprofile.com/blog. This will be my area for posting articles on niche, commonly searched, easy to rank for phrases.

So my questions are:

1. Is building one massive site better?
2. If so, how should I structure the blog area so that each article ranks well? Would it be better if they were well categorized pages in wordpress instead of blog posts?
3. By posting all the articles on a single site, does that mean it will be harder to rank for any single thing since the topic is so broad?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to the great advice i've received on this forum, I'm combining 50 different truck sites into a single, ultimate truck website. So my question is how long should I make a website 301 redirect to the appropriate page on my new website?

My thought is that if it works well to have a single website, it might be nice to eventually sell off some of the old domain names that I won't be using anymore.

Thanks!

Andy

I've been trying to run several truck accessory affiliate websites for a quite a while now. I've recently decided to combine all of my affiliate websites into a single community website. This way I'll be able to focus all my energy and link building into a single place and build up a single brand.

My question is, how many websites do I try to redirect to the new website at a time? Do I need to spread this out? Or is it ok if I move all of my content and websites at a single time?

I have around 30 websites that I could move to this new domain.

Thanks!

Andy

Will do

Will Google freak out, or will there be any other issues if all of the sudden I'm doing all these 301 Redirects from 20 sites to a single website?

Thank you,

Andy

Thank you, that's what I was wondering. Ok, I'll start working on a central site in the meantime.

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the help!

For the last few years I've had a website called husky-floor-liners.com. It was dedicated to specific brand of floor liner. Earlier this year, I decided to make the site bigger to incorporate further brands of floor liners and mats, so I turned it into floormatsandliners.com, and redirected all the old URL's to the new ones. Would it be bad to move that site, yet again, to a subfolder on a site of mine like truckprofile.com? Then have the content of floormatsandliners.com moved to truckprofile.com/floor-mats-liners?

And then should I have the brands and parts structure be like: truckprofile.com/floor-mats-liners/husky/floor-liners?

Thanks!

Thank you everyone! This is really helpful.

I do a lot of affiliate marketing for aftermarket truck parts and I also run a lot of community/forum type websites for trucks. On the affiliate marketing side of things, I usually will find a very good keyword rich domain name for a product, and build a site around that product. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't, but I typically feel like I have an advantage because of the very keyword rich domain names.

Lately it's become a lot of work setting up these individual sites and promoting them. I try to do a good job, and provide quality content. I've considered moving these sites to one central site, like, one of my more popular truck community/forums and maybe start using sub-domains or sub-folders instead. They are all truck related, but they are all completely different parts. Some for performance, others being accessories.

Does anyone have an opinion on this? I've read on here multiple times about the advantage in focusing all your link power in one place, but I feel at the same time that I would be missing out on the power of the great keyword phrase domains I've been using. If I combined all of these sites into a single community site, the site's content wouldn't be as targeted, right?

I would appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks,

Andy