What do you think of this strategy?

by AFI
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I think I can announce it here because there would be room for everyone to do it if they wanted to.

But anyway, instead of having a bunch of mini sites giving product reviews, what about having one big review site like "myreviewsite.com" and then optimizing each page on the site for that particular product. Like one page could be phones and another page could be vacuums or whatever. Would that method work and would people start coming to you after awhile and seeing you as a source for good product reviews? Basically I guess like "epinions.com" but on a personal level. And instead of actually having to buy all of these products, you write from other reviews you see on the web.

What is your opinion on a site like this?
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  • You mean one site reviewing products from multiple and unrelated niches? that's bad for SEO. It's super difficult to create or rank an authority site unless it's super targeted onto one specific niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author blackhawkup
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      Originally Posted by Anonymous Affiliate View Post

      You mean one site reviewing products from multiple and unrelated niches? that's bad for SEO. It's super difficult to create or rank an authority site unless it's super targeted onto one specific niche.
      Yeah i agree..but what you could do is setup each review sites to cover main theme and then any product under that them just goes to that specific review site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
      Originally Posted by Anonymous Affiliate View Post

      You mean one site reviewing products from multiple and unrelated niches? that's bad for SEO. It's super difficult to create or rank an authority site unless it's super targeted onto one specific niche.
      Actually, make that a specific market. There can be a boatload of niches in any given market, (think auto parts, as an example), and if you confine your content to the market you should be ok.

      I know this because I have a webstore that sells into a specific market yet has many niches in that market and Google ranks my site #1 or #2 for the market and also ranks me very well in the specific niches.

      Just don't try it with washing machines and caskets. Ain't gonna work.

      ~Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author AFI
    Thanks everyone. I was just trying to think out of the box is all but yeah you are all very right.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hlatky
    Yes, I have thought about this before. I think that it would be much easier to rank for specific niches than have one big website.

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  • Profile picture of the author LetsGoViral
    Originally Posted by AFI View Post

    I think I can announce it here because there would be room for everyone to do it if they wanted to.

    But anyway, instead of having a bunch of mini sites giving product reviews, what about having one big review site like "myreviewsite.com" and then optimizing each page on the site for that particular product. Like one page could be phones and another page could be vacuums or whatever. Would that method work and would people start coming to you after awhile and seeing you as a source for good product reviews? Basically I guess like "epinions.com" but on a personal level. And instead of actually having to buy all of these products, you write from other reviews you see on the web.

    What is your opinion on a site like this?
    I would do it differently. I would use different subdomains for each niche. It's not a good idea to stick up completely unrelated niches on a single site...or is it?
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    First of all, you're getting a lot of opinions on this from people who really have no idea what they are talking about and have never tried anything like it. Throw those opinions out right away.

    What you are talking about is trying to create an authority review site. Can it be done, of course it can.

    EZA, GoArticles, Squidoo, Hubpages... all cover a wide variety of niches. Nobody complains about them.

    About, Amazon, CNET, epinions, ehow, webmd, askmen, yobt (for the adult kids) ect.... seeing a trend here. The BIG sites all cover a lot of niches and topics. Also, all of these sites rank well for a lot of long-tail keywords.

    All of the sites mentioned above started out as brand new, no rank, no content sites as well. Time and hard work made them what they are today.

    The reason (imho) why so many people have trouble with authority and multi-niche sites is they require more time and effort. It's faster to set up a dumpy squeeze page and call it a day. Don't get sucked into the cheap and easy mindset.

    Now, why build an authority site? Well, a single topic/niche site may be easier and faster to get up and running but it's going to hit a ceiling. You're only going to make so-much money with 12-inch-blinds.biz but home-decoration.biz has near endless potential for growth.

    If you like to think big and have a big picture vision of what you want to do... go for it. Don't follow the herd.
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnny Slater
    Having a central site with multiple niches is actually quite easy and can work very well.

    You would need to have the main domain have a short description of each niche then create subdomains for each niche under the main. So MyReviewSite.com would be the root where all the different niches are listed and then create subdomains like Cars.MyReviewSite.com and Hats.MyReviewSite.com and Articles.MyReviewSite.com.

    The reason to have each niche in a subdomain is the search engines treat subdomains as seperate entities from the main. Each subdomain would be seen as a seperate and unique site in itself and then you can work on your SEO for each subdomain seperately.

    Doing this allows you to set up unlimited review sites under a single domain name and it will have no negative effect on SEO. You can work each subdomain into its own authority site and none of the others would have any effect on it.

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    If you have a central look and feel for the header of the subdomains that match the main domain, so that they are all tied together in the browser you can actually build the authority of the root domain without even trying to. Having each niche subdomain linking back to the root domain and the root linking in to each subdomain creates a cross linking platform that builds the rank of the root and the rank of the niche subdomain at the same time.

    Each subdomain would give the root domain a backlink, raising it's importance in the eyes of the SERPS, and each subdomain gets a backlink from the root domain doing the same thing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dano1981
      Sounds very interesting and perhaps in some sense a greater advantages on SEO strategy? Then again my characterization may not be quite accurate.

      • If it is such a great alternative why don't more do it?
      • what are the "downsides" of this method?

      My questions are borne from a perspective of being at a similar crossroads or point of curiosity as that of the OP. I'm not "critiquing" nor cross examining, but rather curious as to what approach is best and why? Any clarification to the pros and cons of these points would be greatly appreciated..

      Dano~

      Originally Posted by Johnny Slater View Post

      Having a central site with multiple niches is actually quite easy and can work very well.

      You would need to have the main domain have a short description of each niche then create subdomains for each niche under the main. So MyReviewSite.com would be the root where all the different niches are listed and then create subdomains like Cars.MyReviewSite.com and Hats.MyReviewSite.com and Articles.MyReviewSite.com.

      The reason to have each niche in a subdomain is the search engines treat subdomains as seperate entities from the main. Each subdomain would be seen as a seperate and unique site in itself and then you can work on your SEO for each subdomain seperately.

      Doing this allows you to set up unlimited review sites under a single domain name and it will have no negative effect on SEO. You can work each subdomain into its own authority site and none of the others would have any effect on it.

      Edited to add:

      If you have a central look and feel for the header of the subdomains that match the main domain, so that they are all tied together in the browser you can actually build the authority of the root domain without even trying to. Having each niche subdomain linking back to the root domain and the root linking in to each subdomain creates a cross linking platform that builds the rank of the root and the rank of the niche subdomain at the same time.

      Each subdomain would give the root domain a backlink, raising it's importance in the eyes of the SERPS, and each subdomain gets a backlink from the root domain doing the same thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    If you are not actually trying the products, don't call it a Review site. Call it a shopping site.


    p.s. I do have such a site that I make money from Amazon right after Christmas.
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