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Split up website into separate ones for better SEO?

by neodoxa
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Hello everyone,

So I'm a bit new to SEO and the proper techniques to target keywords and rank better.

Anyways, I have a website that is PR3 and currently has about 200 pages worth of unique content. I started it as a hobby because I was interested in the subject, but ever since I added Adsense to it and started to make a few bucks, I caught the bug.

For the purpose of this thread, let's just say the site is about something as general as sports and the name is sportscenter.com. The main menu has categories such as football, baseball, etc... Would it be more beneficial to split the site up into separate domains such as footballcenter.com, baseballcenter.com, basketballcenter.com, etc., rather than keep everything on one domain (sportscenter.com)?

I feel like it may be more beneficial for ranking articles since each domain would be more focused in its keywords?

Thanks for any insights,
Neodoxa
#seo #separate #split #website
  • Profile picture of the author Weedy92
    Not really, you can rank the catagories with a bit of work. In today's age Google wants larger sites with lots of unique content, and that's where you seem to be at right now.. If you are making money now figure out how to scale it and grow the site, or build another one, keep at it!
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  • Profile picture of the author ademsmith
    How many visitors do you have and how much do you make with AdSense per month ?
    I want to build a website with lots of high quality and unique content just to earn money with Google AdSense . Do you think this is a good idea ?
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    • Profile picture of the author neodoxa
      Originally Posted by ademsmith View Post

      How many visitors do you have and how much do you make with AdSense per month ?
      I want to build a website with lots of high quality and unique content just to earn money with Google AdSense . Do you think this is a good idea ?
      I get 400 uniques/day, 2500 pageviews/day. As far as income goes, I'm only getting about $30/month so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart william
    It would be better if your website is split in different domains but you need to add more content to your website as if you expecting a better traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author neodoxa
      Originally Posted by Stuart william View Post

      It would be better if your website is split in different domains but you need to add more content to your website as if you expecting a better traffic.
      Thanks for the reply. Yes, each domain would have a few hundred pages when it's all said and done.

      I guess it's like this...

      Sports --> Baseball --> Microniches within baseball.

      Would 200 pages worth of baseball articles do better on a domain by themselves, or would they perform equally on a sports mega-site that also has 1000 pages of non-baseball content?
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  • Profile picture of the author Isaiah Coe
    Just like "Weedy92" splitting up the content into different domain name really won't help you with ranking. But it can get you a better target audience. What you can do instead is make sub-domains for the different categories. Example for football, football.sportscenter.com. Content on the sub-domain will help increase the page rank for the domain.

    I hope this helps you
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  • Profile picture of the author neodoxa
    Thanks for the tips, guys. I think I'll just leave it all on the same domain for now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    Personally.. I would leave it as is, mine is that way. It covers topics from Photography, Photoshop, Maps, Role Playing Games and Software (Stuff I have developed myself). I find it easy to rank things actually.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    If you create separate websites, it just means a lot more work in terms of maintaining them and getting rankings.

    You are much better off building an authority site so long as the content is all related (as yours is)
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  • Profile picture of the author mark1230
    i think it is better idea to keep it under one site...if you have staff to take care for others then you can split them
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  • Profile picture of the author nasuryono
    I'd have to say stick with your current structures. Google seems to be banishing thin sites on their index and is gearing towards more authority sites.

    Keep doing what you're doing and focus on monetizing your site more.
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  • Profile picture of the author ThatAblaze
    Don't split! Take a page out of wikipedia's book: More interlinking = better results. Splitting your site will just make you less inclined to interlink, and almost certainly make you rank worse.
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  • Profile picture of the author sonia06
    I don't think It's a good idea to split your site, google likes rich websites with interlinking . I really don't see how splitting to more domains is going to help
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  • Profile picture of the author MatthewAus
    As a general rule across the board you should have all of your content on the one website.

    Google does not want you to do anything for SEO. They just want you to make as much good content as you can and keep it all in one place.
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    • Profile picture of the author neodoxa
      Thanks for the replies. I have decided to just keep everything on one site.
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