SEO Question For Multiple Sites

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I just wanted to get everyone's thoughts on this...

Anyhow, we have a potential client who has many different websites for specific industries he's trying to promote. For example purposes, let's say his main site is www.carsandtrucks.com anad he has other more specific sites as well like, www.toyotacarsandtrucks.com, www.fordcarsandtrucks.com, etc. He wants to link all the specific sites to his main site (maybe have tabs at the top of the home page where someone can then go to each of the specific sites, and also have a slideshow where someone can click a picture and go to a specific site, etc.). Just an FYI, but none of these sites are subdomains, they are all unique urls.

Now, he wants to do SEO on his main site, but would you guys recommend only doing SEO on the main site (adding a lot more of the specific kw to the mix), or do SEO on all the specific sites individually for better ranking purposes. He has very specific, and very keyword rich domains. The first word in the url is different for each site for each of the different specific niches he's targeting.

Everything above make sense? Any thoughts/advice on this?
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  • Not sure this belongs in the offline forum, but its still a good question.

    First of all, I'm assuming these are exact match domains for keywords he wants to rank for. If this is true, I'd seo each one separately with backlinks containing the exact match keyword that is in the domain. They will rank very easily (depending on the competition, of course).

    If they're all on different class C IP addresses, it will benefit them to link them together, but if they're hosted on the same or similar IP addresses, dont do it. Too big of a footprint for google to easily come in and slap.
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    • Yeah you will need to request each one be moved to a different server or VPN.....


      On terms of SEO...are you upselling? If so...then the answer is OF COURSE....if you will still charge him the same...just clean up the meta data....xD

      If he is selling toyota's and fords on his main site....he may just end up cannibalizing himself, where none of his keywords rank well since he just created competition for himself.

      Use the toyota as a forum/blog for toyota's and link back to the money site...same with the ford....that might work better....as more people might join those sites increasing the PR of those sites....and then with the link backs the money site will grow...(but of course you would need to SEO these sites)

      A lot of the designer friends I have use that technique and it works very well. Just takes some time to build a "community" or "following"
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  • Hi,

    I'm trying to figure out the best way to link (or not to link) a network of sites that I own. So... I thought I would ask the experts.

    Here's the scenario:

    4 sites with a PR of 6
    2 new sites with a PR of 0
    All the sites have their own domain name.
    All the sites have NO external links at this time that are not Javascript.

    I had been cross-linking all the sites (at the top of the page), but I belive that was having a negative effect on my ranking. I can't prove this (I'm on a Mac and only got the PR of the sites recently)... but I've got 5x the content that I had back when I only had one site... and the same traffic. ;-(

    So... what should I do?

    1. Create a new "central site" that all the sites link to instead of linking them to each other? But... I don't want to send -all- my PR to the central site.
    2. Use a javascript or image based menu to allow users to jump sites - but not search engines (they tend to find all our pages anyway)?
    3. Leave everything as it is - it's the correct setup.
    4. Anything that I haven't thought of?

    Thanks...
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    SEO Question For Multiple Sites

    I just wanted to get everyone's thoughts on this... Anyhow, we have a potential client who has many different websites for specific industries he's trying to promote. For example purposes, let's say his main site is www.carsandtrucks.com anad he has other more specific sites as well like, www.toyotacarsandtrucks.com, www.fordcarsandtrucks.com, etc. He wants to link all the specific sites to his main site (maybe have tabs at the top of the home page where someone can then go to each of the specific sites, and also have a slideshow where someone can click a picture and go to a specific site, etc.). Just an FYI, but none of these sites are subdomains, they are all unique urls.