Thread: One Website vs. Multiple Websites

Has anyone thuoght about using multiple subdomains as opposed to multilple domains. Subdomains have unique characteristics in that they are treated individually by search engines.

We have gone back and forth in regard to subdomains. What we have done is used subdomains for separate tools associated with the website. For example, forums, blogs, etc...

Also, if you are targeting different geographic areas in regard to real estate, we set up separate subdomains for each area.

Just my two cents

So you are using a sub domain per city?

In our case, it is states by subdomain but it is the same idea. We then use folders for cities like as a example:

california.domain.com/city

will it make much difference to have multiple sub-domains instead of multiple domains

Originally Posted by marcinsarasota

I have multiple websites for my area and 70-80% of my business comes from the internet. Most of my leads come from one site. I started to build other sites so I did not have all of my eggs in one basket. My goal is to have 3-4 sites producing consistent leads. This way if any one of the sites fell out of the search engines for any reason my income would not take a huge hit. As it stands now, if my Sarasota site (ranks well in Google) dropped in the rankings my production and income would suffer.

I was wondering how many of you are juggling multiple websites? How many of you are just concentrating on one site?

Any opinions on having one site versus multiple? I will always have multiple sites but am thinking about consolidating a few.

It's a good strategy to create multiple sites. You are right that if a site drop on search engines then your other sites will generate revenue and your revenue will not be effected. It's difficult to handle multiple sites but if you can handle then you must do it. you need to spend your time for each website and it's really a hard work.

Absolutely right... It is better to involve all your time to make one best site than makng many

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I have multiple websites for my area and 70-80% of my business comes from the internet. Most of my leads come from one site. I started to build other sites so I did not have all of my eggs in one basket. My goal is to have 3-4 sites producing consistent leads. This way if any one of the sites fell out of the search engines for any reason my income would not take a huge hit. As it stands now, if my Sarasota site (ranks well in Google) dropped in the rankings my production and income would suffer.

I was wondering how many of you are juggling multiple websites? How many of you are just concentrating on one site?

Any opinions on having one site versus multiple? I will always have multiple sites but am thinking about consolidating a few.

In respose to that, you are better off with multiple sites, as you say one may get dropped from google and u have all your eggs etc.
The only problem with multiples is they are a lot more work than one site, and you have extra costs. All in all though multiples are better than one imo.

Do not consolidate... from the looks of it you have good PR on each site (google sees you as a valid/valuble site) you have a good number of backlinks to two of the sites (these are worth their weight in gold) Perhaps a better plan would be to sink some money into the sites and create a consolidated backend, so an update could be reflected on all of the sites. Got to go... battery running out on the old laptop