Adsense minisites or one authority site? Which type is better?

If you put 5 pages or 500 pages in front of someones face, which do you think has a better chance of an Adsense click (both sites optimized the same)?

I think that large authority sites are better, because they will eventually generate the most clicks and impressions.

Authority sites would be better long term, just keep adding good content and do some consistant backlinking to gradually build your rankings

Well I had a few "authority sites" get hit hard from the panda update. One site had close to 200 pages of unique content. So I'd be careful too.

Yet the thin affiliate sites Ive made havent been affected really.

What does that tell you?

I'm not sure, but in the last couple days I've registered 17 new domains.

What do you think I'm concentrating on now?

Authority or mini sites?

(as they say if you can't beat them, join them)

I think its entirely depend on your skills that which choice you can easily manage. If you want to put all your adsense business in one basket and confident about your skills then stick with one site. Choose a keywords having a lot of potential like too many long tails.

If you think you must have backup sites to face changes in Google Algorithm then crate more than one site.

Thanks

I want to thank everyone for your answers. I am having success with what I think can be considered an authority site (around 2,000 pages so far, all unique content) by the way, this is a static site.

It has not been negatively affected by any of the Google updates over the years, so it has been a solid Adsense earner.

However, I am starting to experiment with blogs and this is why I asked the question to decide whether to build blogs for tight niches (small blogs) or for wide niches (authority blogs).

Again, thank you all.

How about both? Build a few mini authority sites and a couple more micro niche sites ...

I can tell you without question that the "authority" type site is the way to go. Building small 1-5 page mini sites monitized with adsense is against Google's quality guidelines.

Wanna know how I know?

Up until last December I had 130,1-5 page websites monitized with adsense. They consisted of an article, Youtube video and adsense per page. I was bringing in over $8,000 a month with them.

Then, in January Google deindexed ALL of those sites. What that means is that they have permanently lost all rankings and when you do the site:yoursite.com, nothing comes up anymore.

All 130 of these sites were on the same Adsense account and the same Webmaster tools account. So when I logged into Webmaster Tools there was a message on all my sites. It said that "this site may be in violation of googles quality guidelines".

So I went to Gogles forum and posted one of my sites there and they told me they were made for adsense sites. So when a human reviewer at Google found one of my sites they put my adsense publisher ID (found in the websites sourcecode), into their system and bang! - They found ALL of my sites and saw they were all "cookie-cutter" made for adsense sites and they deindexed all of them.

So I opened up a new adsense account and a business LLC since then and have been building 20-40 page sites. And I use a "quality" article writer. You know, one that charges $20-$30 per article. This is the only way to have quality content on your site! Don't use one of those crappy $5 per article guys. Poor website content also = deindexing nowadays.

So income is back up to $4000 a month and growing. And now I'm not afraid of Google ever deindexing my sites again. They have lots of pages with "quality" content.

Besides, if you build a 20 page site and rank all 20 pages on Googles first page you can easily make $20-$50 a day per site. If you build a 1 page site you will probably only make $1-$2 a day per site. So you get more bang for your buck with a bigger site anyway.

Best

Ha, Ha!!

I've been hoodwinked!

OP, didn't have that Adsense banner in the forum sig. when I posted my comment.

I see OP actually has multiple Adsense products.

This thread makes me NOT want to click on your Adsense sig

I don't build "authority sites", my main site I'm working on has 5 pages of unique content, I'm planning on making it bigger and bigger as time goes on by targeting more and more long tail keywords.

Is it possible that someone at Google Adsense looks at one of your sites when it's first built, sees it only has a few pages of content and bans your Adsense account?

I think one important aspect here is that if you do an authority site, then you do not have any exact match domain for the queries; but then with the mini-sites you do. So this is a trade-off, and both strategies can work.

Been down both roads and both have pros and cons.

Minisites:

PROS

- Easy to find a low competition niche
- Exact match domains often available
- Little maintenance
- Small but reliable contribution to adsense portfolio

CONS

- Some sites flop!
- Adsense may determine that your sites are MFA and bizzle slap your account
- Domain renewals
- Attention spread thinly across too many sites


Authority Sites:

PROS

- Expandable
- Easy to integrate complementary offers from CB, etc.
- Provide a lot of value (ideally)
- Great flipping potential
- Easy to focus on
- Easier to build a substantial list and create/promote products

CONS

- More competition
- If Adsense serves up irrelevant ads, there goes your adsense for that site
- Takes more time to see results


Vic

Mini sites are great for quick cash. Basically you need to ask yourself, do you want to be making money in 1 week or 1 year?