Add on Domain, WP Themes, Spinning. Does Google Know?

[derekcaldwell]

I've got 1 local plumbing client with approx. 30 or so sites. We are focused on creating different sites with slightly different content (at times spun to 50% uniqueness) and Wordpress themes. However, most are designed using Catalyst Theme designer and all keywords are strategically placed in H1 - H3 tags and rarely are the keywords the same, i.e. plumber in city, city plumbers, city plumbing company, etc... all of this is done using Host Gators add on domains.

My questions is "does Google know if this is the same company"? Most of the sites have the same phone number and image logo. Warrior thoughts, opinions, comments welcomed.

Regards,

Derek

[paulgl]

How many sites do you think something like gasbuddy.com
owns? All for the same thing, just a different state, city.
Same site even, mostly, across the board.

However, if you are just dong a rehash of the same site, with
no focus on anything unique, like city, genre, state, services, etc,
then what's the point?

Instead of doing a bunch of small sites for one thing, concentrate
on one site, build content and authority.

Google could care less how many sites one company owns.
Amazon, wikipedia, failblog, go.com, zap2it, ebay, etc. etc.
own multiple sites. Very common. But each site normally has
a slightly different niche, like ebaymotors, wikibooks,
disney.go.com, espn.go.com, etc.

Paul

[derekcaldwell]

Originally Posted by paulgl

How many sites do you think something like gasbuddy.com
owns? All for the same thing, just a different state, city.
Same site even, mostly, across the board.

However, if you are just dong a rehash of the same site, with
no focus on anything unique, like city, genre, state, services, etc,
then what's the point?

Instead of doing a bunch of small sites for one thing, concentrate
on one site, build content and authority.

Google could care less how many sites one company owns.
Amazon, wikipedia, failblog, go.com, zap2it, ebay, etc. etc.
own multiple sites. Very common. But each site normally has
a slightly different niche, like ebaymotors, wikibooks,
disney.go.com, espn.go.com, etc.

Paul

I've tried to get my client to focus on 1 main site but can't seem to convince him. Seems to think that the more the better and i'm in no position to argue as it pays the bills. So i've focused my efforts on trying to maximize the situation the best i can for their benefit and mine. as far as rehashing it does happen occasionally but for the most part we concentrate on many sites with city identifiers in the domain and as keywords. We are in a big city so we also try to get traffic from sites of nearby cities. city1plumber, citybplumber, etc.. but all close to the main metro city whcih itself has approx. 20 variations of sites, maincityplumber.com, plumberinmaincity.com, etc... i do make sure the content is unique as well as the design as to try and limit my google footprint. i'm kinda concerned though about future image scanning technologies for logs on all sites, etc.. what about telephone and address info on each site. after all that is how many google places listing are created. i know they say adwords, places and organic are different but i wonder how much?