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Never mind Donnie,

It looks like you used Google keyword tool, exact...

Hey Donnie,

I was reviewing your suggestions and have a quick question:  what is the number after the keyphrase you listed here:

online renters insurance - 210

Disability quotes - 480

consumer insurance guide - 58

life quotes - 301,000

renters insurance illinois - 46

e health insurance - 2,400

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Penguin bait?  We have a handful of professional writers in house putting up GREAT content at ConsumerInsuranceGuide.com,  and have done this before--successfully.  The last time we made this 'Penguin Bait' we sold it to QuinStreet for 16 million.  http://www.elliotsblog.com/insure-com-sells-for-16-million-7361  The value was in the 7,000 authorative articles and their respective pagerank and backlinks.  Like you say good content beats SEO every time.

Do you really think its 'penguin bait'????

What specifically (or generally) is wrong there??? Initially i wasnt posting question about ConsumerInsuranceGuide.com but now that you mention it i'm VERY interested--especially since we have several hundred thousand dollars spent there already on high-quality original content.

Tell that to  Dick Portillo, millionaire owner of Portillo's hot dogs chain, one of the best in Chicago.  He makes more money than Jean and Georgettis (best steak house in Chicago).

Anyway, this rhetoric isnt helpful to any of us.  I'm looking for opinions based on working knowledge of microsite campaigning vs. single site.  Obviously your hunch is that a microsite is a 'losing battle'.  I get it.  Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.

By the way, all 300 sites are build dynamically from 1 page of code using Wordpress as CMS.  I work 8 minutes on all 300 sites and get as much done as most people can in 40 hours!

On the right nav (middle) if you click 'renters insurance' it randomly goes to one of the 67 live sites.  Click and look at the domain

Hey Donnie,

Duplicate content:  Thats just my footer (same in all 67).  Should i block that from the bot(s)???

Also:  the microsites were an effort to target long-tail keywords with exact-match domains.

OK:  blocked s of 4:30 pm 8-24.  I get a clean copyscape now

Get a pagerank keyword tool (google...)  The higher the pagerank (PR) the better.  PR3 is marginal PR4 is very good anything above that is great.  Remember, the page your link is on is the PR you want to look for, not the home page.  Its not uncommon for back link sellers to have a pr4 homepage but the article you're linking from could be pr0 (useless).  DMOZ is pr7 WIKI is PR7

I dont think your list is a good one. I spot-checked the first 4:

Yoganza:  PR2

wkool:  PR2

wee-directory:  PR0

Voicelet:  PR1

I have a group of microsites for renters insurance, mostly geo long-tails.  I wrote some content and have a GREAT back-end through Kemper.  First 4 weeks they all did great.  It looks like Panda went through on June 25 and by the 27'th they got moved totally out of the SERP.  I have 67 microsites.  All have unique contact (about us, why us, benefits...).  I post to them often; not all of them but i put up about 10 new posts / week.  Havent done much SEO, no link building or anything that could be spammy or causeing trouble.  I have them in webmaster tools and no messages about problems.  If i've been penalized or if something is seriously wrong i'd like to know.  I know that Google can see 67 websites all on 1 ip but i'm not trying to fool or trick Gbot so not interested in using proxies or specialty hosts with many ip's.If there is no critical flaw, next i'm  just going to continue writing content, buy traffic, and build quality backlinks.  Your comments are appreciated.  Not one site is in top 1000 as far as i can see, and all were in top 30 by week 4.  Banned on week 5, today is week 12.http://onlinerentersinsurance.orgIf you want to see the other 66, click on the 'renters insurance' link on the right.  Its a random link through the micronetwork.

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