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Multiple City Sites

by drawitch
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Hi Experts...this is my first time posting, so hopefully, I dont say anything too stupid.

I am considering building out city specific sites for major towns across the US. Each Website would have an individual city name and all the individual sites will be 10% customized for the specific town represented, but my hope is that 90% of the content added daily would be the same.

For instance; www.CoolWhateverLosAngeles.com and www.CoolWhatEverSanFrancisco.com would have slightly different main pages but other than changing the name of each city, the content on the other pages would be very similar from city to city.

Does Google Penguin pick up on this and do they penalize or disallow from an Optimization standpoint?

Lastly, does anyone know of any slick software or code that would allow me to update content across a platform of multiple sites?

I hope this makes sense and I am hopeful someone out there knows the answer and is willing to share with me.

Thanks,

Dan
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  • Profile picture of the author Make Money Ninja
    Hi Drawitch,

    I think if the sites are too similar, use the same design, are on the same IP etc you are just asking for trouble. They can definitely pick up on things if you leave very obvious footprints.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Names are just fine, but if you ask me adding duplicate content, hell NO!
    and also good point raised by makemoneyninja, you should different IP for your sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Originally Posted by drawitch View Post

    Hi Experts...this is my first time posting, so hopefully, I dont say anything too stupid.

    I am considering building out city specific sites for major towns across the US. Each Website would have an individual city name and all the individual sites will be 10% customized for the specific town represented, but my hope is that 90% of the content added daily would be the same.

    For instance; www.CoolWhateverLosAngeles.com and www.CoolWhatEverSanFrancisco.com would have slightly different main pages but other than changing the name of each city, the content on the other pages would be very similar from city to city.

    Does Google Penguin pick up on this and do they penalize or disallow from an Optimization standpoint?

    Lastly, does anyone know of any slick software or code that would allow me to update content across a platform of multiple sites?

    I hope this makes sense and I am hopeful someone out there knows the answer and is willing to share with me.

    Thanks,

    Dan
    It depends on what you have to offer on the site.

    I know someone with a travel/holiday emperium that does exactly what you're doing, he uses them as feeder sites for his main site.

    All of them are on the same IP, all of them are inter linked, all of them have the same theme, and all of them are ranking like crazy with hardly any links build.

    Just make sure your visitors like your sites and stay on them instead of instantly bouncing off, and I wouldn't monetize them with Adsense or anything like that either, then those concepts often don't work very well.

    Use them to drive traffic to one main site and monetize that one.

    All the huge sites are inter linking their sites like crazy and they're probably on the same dedicated server and maybe IP, I don't see Amazon ranking any worse cause of that with all their footer links.

    But again, if it are some crappy thin sites, over monetized and nothing to offer then you'll probably fail.

    Although I have to admit that lately I build a couple of feeder sites for my SEO site, which are in fact pretty damn thin with just 3000 words of fluff content and some banners on them that link back to my main site, in total I build 7 of those btw, and they rank fine and my main site isn't doing that bad either.

    PS: Do make your content very unique, just changing the name of the city and adding a few details most probably ain't gonna work.

    I missed this part: but my hope is that 90% of the content added daily would be the same

    How the hell can the content be the same when you build a site about "awesome stuff in los angeles" and another site named "awesome stuff in detroit"
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