Many Niche Sites or 1 Authority site with many affiliate Niches?

This question has been asked for over a decade. My advice is that you focus on one niche per domain, although you can create a huge site and still be successful. The key is to focus on the user experience, not what you think the search engines will like. If you can create a huge website that provides value and is somehow different from other websites, then go for it.

Janet,

I think you are on the right track by following along side the already proven Authority Sites SEO model - and I suggest you mimic their strategies on MOST of what they are doing, but I wouldn't bother creating more than one, maybe two sites at a time.

It's hard enough to compete with the large sites enough as it is so unless you are spitting out highly contagious content ALL of the time you'll just end up spinning your wheels trying to get every site running optimally.

Keep using the strategies those sites are using for your own - in content, SEO, linking, etc. Never try to reinvent the wheel.

I prefer to focus on one targeted niche.

1 authority site. having lots of little niche sites sucks...

It really depends. Authority sites are generally harder to rank unless you're in a niche with little competition. If your 5-8 niches are for ultra-targeted keywords then it would be better to go with that. On a side note, if you go with the latter, go buy some backlinking services found in the WSO section

Regards

Caleb Prince

I prefer 1 niche 1 site and it works very well (EMDish not quite exact)

My home page is a keyword that I could never rank for, which leads to 10 pages which I can rank for and those ten pages have a large multiple number of pages linking back to one of the ten.

So I end up with multiple pages passing internal link juice back to the ten, which in turn pass link juice back to the main difficult keyword and guess what it works - typically I have 120 pages built over a 3 month period (anything instand does given gratifiaction and will slip back just as quickly) and then google starts to notice and treat me nicley - I use html not wordpress and do not do any backlinking

All content is original 700 to 900 words and I use keymap pro as the guide as to what should be in the content

Kind regards

smith33122

I would go for 1 authoritative site which encompasses all niches. Build a brand which will stand the test of time.

DEFINITELY go with many smaller ones. Google will turn on you eventually, so you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket.

Spread your sites out, Google might not destroy them all at once that way.

If you think of niches like "female between 30-50 who want to start exercise" and not "used threadmill" you should go for one website.

Make sure all your categories matches the same persons interests.

First benefit is in social and email. If you build a 5 Facebook accounts for 5 websites you have to push 5-20 posts each day. Multiply that with Google+, Pinterest, Twitter and all the others. Thats a lot of logging in and out.

Having one account on each website for your entire business will make it much easier to build good follower counts and authority.

Same with email. If you devide your 200 email list by 5 you only get 40. So now you have to send 5 emails to 40 people each instead of 1 to 200.

SEO benefits are great with one website. Make sure you have a silo structure and one good backlink to the front page will lift each of your pages in the SERPS.

I have started my first authority website about a year ago and have around 160 posts. Getting a real backlink to one of the posts make a lot of different on many of the other posts as well.

Then there is the risk involved. Having 5 website sounds a lot safer than just 1 if Google change the rules. But if you have done the same or close to identical SEO and marketing for all the 5 websites, then they will still all suffer.

Hi,

What you should really ask yourself is two questions:
1. Does the visitor (average visitor) is looking to find a website that is dealing with health related issues? Is he looking to find more focused website? If you ask me health is very broad subject, and therefore you need to create different niches.
2. If so, the second Q you need to ask, is what you should focus? what is your expertise? Don't try to control each and every issue, focus only in the one you think is best for you, and what is more profitable.

Good luck !
Roy.

For me I prefer multiple Amazon niche sites that could make at least $100-$125/site. Why? Because a site reviewing 3-5 products is easy and fast to set up. Then you can update content on a consistent basis, at first once a week, then once every 2 weeks, then once a month. Then maintain updates. My opinion is good content AND content updating.

Building an authority site comprised of many niches may confuse the buyer. They may think that you are a supermarket that sells everything with no expertise.

Building several sites with each dedicating one niche is preferred.

Just a question. If you can cope, it should be okay? If you cannot, would recommend you to do 1 at a time.

As you can see, loads of great advice. however, If your budget will stretch, do both!
Why not? obviously you'll need help, there's no shortage of help.

Just a thought!

Depends on various factors like your interests and ability to handle multiple websites. The best is to pick a small niche that you think has high potential and go all in. But leave room for further expansion if needed.

Thanks all! I'm liking the idea of building a few smaller sites to see how these do, once I can prove they generating interest, I'm going to use these as smaller sites to feed/link into my larger authority site that will house all these topics. Then as TryBPO suggests, monetize with many other forms.

Thanks all - really appreciate all the great feedback!

Why don't you just start one site in a tight niche, but have a broad domain name?

You can build your site up by focusing on the tight niche, but because your domain name is broad you can slowly expand into other topics.

Like most big and successful authority sites have done.

Yeah I agree to some of you if you use one authority site and making many niches on and Google will ban your authority site it will simply useless all of your hard work it better to spread it than you compress it so that you have a reserve when Google ban one of your authority site and you must avoid committing another mistakes.

Hey guys, I would like to know after I have done my keyword research for a niche, how does the testing work to see if there would actually be a market/interest in your niche.

Ideally testing to see if a niche market will work well before you go and spend money on the hosting and domain.

Do you run a ppc adwords campaign on the main keywords you selected and direct traffic to a landing page or what ?

If somebody could shed some light on this it would be awesome.

test and test some more

it is a lot of work but some niches benefit from big site and others work better on dedicated sites

very hard question to answer but testing wins out everytime

good luck

Ed