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Do you keep your niche sites separate?

by Matt Ward
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I'm just wondering what the opinion is on keeping your niche sites separate, and by that, I mean keeping it so there's absolutely no recognizable link between any of them. No identifying whois data, no shared Adsense/Analytics, no interlinking, no shared backlinks, different webhosting account for every site- making it completely impossible for someone to be able to mine all of your other sites/niches or even for Google to recognize all of your websites.

The reason I ask is because I personally feel like I should try to keep everything separate. I've seen that a lot of affiliates don't seem to care about this, though? For example, I read some advice from someone here who showed one of their affiliate sites as an example, and from that I easily found the rest of their sites/niches just by looking at their backlinks. It's usually trivially easy to do this unless you actively make an effort to make sure you don't make an connections between the sites.

The painful part is that it takes a lot more effort, money and micromanagement to keep everything separate: you can't use the same twitter/facebook/social bookmarking/article directory/etc accounts for anything.

How do you handle this? Do you keep all of your sites separate, or is it way too much of a hassle to do it? Obviously this won't apply to everyone (you're not going to have 20 different Adsense accounts) but I'm just wondering how people feel about this. Is it even worth worrying about?
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  • Profile picture of the author hamzidosh
    Having thought about the stress involved in doing that and the security issues involved (remembering all em passwords, opening different email account each time you wanna host a site and any other stuff about that site).
    I bet this will really slow down your progress and as such I`d say "Its not worth it period!"

    Nice thought though...whenever there`s a tool that does all the stuff with 1 click is out- I`m in!

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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    People probably won't bother spying on you until you are a leader in the field, I hear about some marketers separating their products, but with contact company name and mail address FTC requirements? you almost have to have a separate LLC for each product.
    Moderately successful marketers who have outgrown their shared hosting accounts typically have all of their products on a single dedicated server, for a few bucks a month for each you might be able to get separate IP addresses, you might have to have https checkout pages to justify a dedicated IP.
    Of course the other reason for having separate IPs or using completely separate hosting companies, is in a effort to fool google with pr raising links between your sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fun to Write
    No, I don't worry about keeping all of my niche sites separate. The average person isn't going to be doing background checks on websites. If you're not doing anything blackhat or spammy then this shouldn't be a concern.

    However, it's a personal choice, so if it makes you feel more secure, then keep all of yours separate.
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    • Profile picture of the author jan roos
      I have a bunch of people spying on my sites and they find them too but I don't really care about it and here's why.

      These type of copy cats don't have what it takes to be successful and they won't see through the hard work that needs to go into beating you or copying you or whatever. I mean how hard is it to find a site on Google that's making money and copying it or do what they do?

      You need to be able to think for yourself in this business and by going around spying on other people's sites aint going to put food on your table.

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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        I used to keep everything separate. But it got to be where I spen tmore time keeping the records of what I did on what site on which server, that I just kind of let some of them go.

        I still have some things separate but not to the extent that I did before.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    Yeah, I think I'm going to give up on keeping everything separate. Right now I only have a small handful of sites, and it's already a huge pain. I can't even imagine the hassle after I have a huge portfolio of sites. The idea of managing 100 different sets of logins/accounts sounds like a nightmare. I think Jaan Roos makes a great point in that snoopers finding your sites isn't a big deal. It seems like most affiliates have taken that mindset, because it seems like very few people make any effort to keep their sites separate.

    My real biggest concern was Google somehow finding a problem with one of my sites and penalizing every one of them. I've read a few horror stories about that already. I'm imagining it would be almost impossible to completely hide a footprint identifying your sites to Google unless you use completely false WHOIS information, which then puts your domain ownership in jeopardy if anyone challenges it.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    I used to stress about this stuff like crazy!!

    I used to make sure each of my sites had unique whois info, a unique ip address, didn't interlink, etc. It got to the point where it just wasn't worth it any more. Trying to keep track of all of it & stressing over it just became too much for me!

    For the past two years I've completely gone in the opposite direction & I've seen no difference in my rankings. I don't bother interlinking my sites unless they are in the same general market, but outside of that I try not to even think about it!
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