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Can I Get Someones Advice On This Please

by roley
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I have a news site which i post to around 4 posts a day, have been doing that for the past 3 months and it does very well in terms of traffic. The moment i post i usually get page 1 listings within at least 10 mins.

I am contemplating starting an Amazon review site but I thought maybe it would be better to just have a section on my news site called Reviews and piggy back off existing traffic and getting posts indexed fast.

Though my concern is 2 things

1. Would the domain name ( news ) and the site being news put off people from reviews vs having a site which just focused on reviews and not news?

2. If i start posting reviews/affiliate stuff.. Search engine might look differently on my site and decide not to rank my pages like it has been doing

What do you think? Keep it seperate or have a section on my news site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
    If you want, you could just create a new domain with "reviews" in it but still have a menu bar button that says "reviews" that people can click on and it will just bring them to the new domain
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    • Profile picture of the author chilidawg
      Or you could run it like a sister site. Maybe a domain name similar to your news site. Then have a sidebar or some other way to point to it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Zukario
        Originally Posted by chilidawg View Post

        Or you could run it like a sister site. Maybe a domain name similar to your news site. Then have a sidebar or some other way to point to it.
        I agree with the above opinion, based on my knowledge i think it is good to have a review sites that are separated from news sites because it will make google news dislike your site, i afraid.
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  • Profile picture of the author roley
    Um that is an option, but then again that whole linking aspect of sites with Google acting like God now days and laying down the rules as to what people can and cant do i wouldnt want to make them think I am trying to boost pr or something to that effect.

    I like the idea of having it on my news sites because im seeing great results with my traffic right now but im not sure if News and Reviews really go hand in hand. Might be to blatent and dilute the whole site from being seen truly as a News site in the search engines mind and that may be why they are ranking it so well right now because its relevant and has nothing to do with anything else but news. ( by the way its not in google news )
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  • Profile picture of the author Dimitris
    it depends on which way you are going to review those products, but more than that is, are they in your niche, if you even have it...
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  • Profile picture of the author roley
    Yeah i agree i think if i have the reviews on my news site it might dilute the relevancy of the site and they will see it more of a review/affiliate site than a news site. I might try the whole sister site thing
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Barker
    If I was in your position I would probably create a new site for reviews and link it to my news site. The search engines are getting pickier (if that's a word) by the week and this way your site would not really be looked at as different than a news site.
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  • Profile picture of the author clickwork
    Definitely avoid self-promotion (as much as possible) when it comes to Google News, you can link to other pages on your site which contain links to affiliate sites and what not, but I certainly wouldn't pursue the self-promotional route on a daily basis (I tried this once and I was rightly canned after about a month (I did make a fair bit of cash in that month though!).
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  • Profile picture of the author royljestr
    How about just put adsense on the site or run ads for an affiliate program (even amazon) then it just looks like every other news site out there.
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  • Profile picture of the author 72K.org
    1. Would the domain name ( news ) and the site being news put off people from reviews vs having a site which just focused on reviews and not news?
    I myself have a news site, but not necessarily calling it news. Calling it news can or cannot affect your visitors depending on how you look at it. As long as your content is what you have made it to be (a review/news site) then the masses will come. Just as long as you keep yourself consistent, the name will not matter as you will see later on down the road.

    2. If i start posting reviews/affiliate stuff.. Search engine might look differently on my site and decide not to rank my pages like it has been doing
    Not necessarily, there are plenty of websites that do this and have not been penalized (I know). My news sites rank within literally SECONDS on google and also ranks ... I also post affiliate URLS and some posts I do not ... You will not get penalized for that and I can guarantee it. Whoever says you will is lying to you and does not know ...
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