How SEO Work With Two Related WebSites?
Hi,
I currently run and own a sports related website that consists of sports articles, sports directory and a sports forum. I rank well with MSN, Yahoo and for a few keywords with Google. In fact, my site ranks well with yahoo when searching for sports articles; my site in the top 11.
I’d like to keep my current sports site and design the site more for sports articles and directory, since both are doing well.
That being said, I’d like to open up my own sports cards trading shop. I would sell products in an auction format. Visitors would signup for a weekly newsletter that would inform them of new auctions that have been added.
Should I design this sports auction store as another domain name? It would not hurt my search engine placement, penalize or ban me if I run two sports related websites and link them together?
Again, one of the sports sites I own is just a directory, forums and articles. The other would be my very own sports store in the format of auction style.
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No, it won’t hurt you BUT be careful not to run duplicate content on both sites. In the last Google update, many of the sites that lost rankings were those that appeared to be scraping content. You would want to avoid giving that impression.
Congratulations on your success to date.
First : your site (raz-sports.com) is cool. It only misses some content, but it will come.
Next : Get adSense or any advertising program ! (http://index-go.com/google-services/google-adsense.asp)
You’ll earn good money from your kind of site.
For the SEO matter : theres absolutely no trouble to link 2, 3 ,5 or 100 websites : look at msn, nbc, microsoft, WindowsMedia, etc. etc. It will not hurt your page rank, it’s more supose to push them up.
Good luck !
There are a couple schools of thought here when creating new sites…. you can set the trading card site up as a subdomain of the established directory and build it out. Once it shows in the index and/or starts to rank for your terms you can create a new domain and redirect using a 301. – OR – you can create a new domain and brand it with the name of the established website and link to it from the established site so it helps get you started with seasoned, credible links. Short answer however is – no, if the two sites are related and share terms and content focus, there is no problem to cross link. Personally I like the second option of creating a branded domain and getting links to it before it launches better than setting up subdomains. I just don’t like the way the subdomain URL looks!