Do You Need Multiple Domains for the Same Business?

It really depends on your usage. The best scenario is to get the bulk of your traffic to go to your main website, which helps strengthen it's position and rankings. However, be sure you're on a server that will accomodate all the extra traffic/bandwith. That may or may not be an issue depending on how many people actually visit.

Sometimes it's better to keep lead capture pages separate, so if you promote the lead capture page in a way that the search engines aren't fond of, your main website won't suffer the penalties.

I personally would focus on building your main domain/site first. Run ads (google/facebook) to that on quality nice-looking pages, which you can then use to run retargeting ads as well. Then if you feel you're not getting the optins and traffic that you want, then you could try other domains

You can always forward domains, this is a lot cheaper than setting up seperate websites.

I agree with our fellow warriors above. Concentrate on building your main web page and then include an opt in box on that page that links to your free giveaway.. This way you are killing 2 birds with one shot and you are bringing all traffic to one place.

Thanks a lot guys, this makes sense and is what I will do. I'll focus on making our main site the main site.

This will be a slightly long post
My only question now is should I have different non seo squeeze pages under the same site (mainsite.com/freebook, mainsite.com/freevideo, and drive different traffic to each one or B. Setup various content pages with keywords that I promote (mainsite.com/loanmodcontent) I would then put a link after the content on that page to the squeeze page.

In case this is confusing the way I have it setup now you go to mainsite.com/loanmodification. That page has a general overview of content with some keywords. If you click the link for our free ebook, you're taken to mainsite.com/loanmodificationbook which is a non seo squeeze page.

When I do youtube videos I always drive the traffic directly to the squeeze page, not the content rich page on my website, but I know the squeeze page will never get us organic traffic like the content pages. Should i stop driving traffic to the squeeze pages? A great marketer told me when I get people off youtube send them to something that's not complicated to capture their info. If I drive the traffic to mainsite.com, I'm concerned that people may spend time on the site reading and not get the free book like they would if it were just a squeeze page. Is this a valid concern?

I know this is a lot, but the last thing is where does a blog come in? If it were a matter of writing great content, we have it and can produce more in text and in video. Is there a way to combine all these elements to drive traffic to one site? In other words people go to mainsite.com and on the home page they see 1. our blog 2. Links to the other parts of our website. This is the only way I see being able to promote one site, versus driving our traffic to squeeze pages. People would have to navigate it when they get there. Sorry this post is so long but I hope it helps me and others. Thanks everyone.