One Website vs. Multiple Websites

**skovats** · 10-28-2010, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by Jonkob

I have a question. I had a site that had a pr of 5 and was a top ranking site with lots of back links. When I left the RE industry 3 years ago I shut down the site. The other day I bought the domain name again sinceI am thinking about getting back into RE. I see that even now I still have some back links left. Is there any benefit to using this name or should focus on a more targeted address with the words homes or houses etc? The web address is www dot johnkobeck dot com

If you SEO your site properly,then you already have a head start on this domain. Keywords in the domain, help, but are by no means necessary. Hey, if you put some content back up, you may get lucky and re-establish your PR rather quickly too, and that will also help you.

**Greater_Calgary** · 10-28-2010, 06:01 PM

Thank you for your help

**Ashley Wilis** · 10-29-2010, 04:52 AM

hi
if your all site are doing almost same kind of task you can connect them so that one of your site rank get increase..

**davidbkeegan** · 10-31-2010, 08:56 PM

I am definitely an advocate or multiple sites as long as they are maintained well.

**brentmitchell** · 11-04-2010, 09:57 AM

You are right to want to have a back up plan in place, but how well is your main site doing? If it is generating a good amount of traffic, then start branching out and creating a few different niche sites. Focus on neighborhoods or specific things in your city. Then, start linking those sites to each other and have them play off one another.

I'm not a marketing genius by any means, but if you can start creating back links from each of your sites to each other, you can gain credibility in the eyes of the search engines.

**agentsranking** · 11-06-2010, 09:48 PM

The more I learn from personal experience with my websites the more I feel like you have to have multiple websites to really dominate your local real estate market. I find that the domains home page keywords, title, etc. are the most influential and are the easiest to generate search traffic to vs. inside pages. The best approach seems to create one website for each of the markets you're trying to dominate. So for example if you're trying to dominate the Western suburbs of Minneapolis you don't just have a Minneapolis website, but separate websites for Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Wayzata, Plymouth, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, etc.

**JLNorthOC** · 11-08-2010, 10:21 AM

Having multiple sites is a great idea. If you income and production depend on one site that is definitely putting all your eggs in one basket. Putting each site on different servers isn't a bad idea either.

**expo09** · 11-10-2010, 02:36 AM

I can see the point of maybe having two sites, but that's about it (unless you are offering different services and they need to be kept apart). Remember websites need maintaining and then there is the SEO. Doing this for several sites is hard work. Concentrating on one is much more productive.