#1 2006-12-20 04:45:34
- Merlin
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Integration or seperate entities...?
Hi,
I have 2 sites relating to travel (please see my sig)...
Site 1 is a specialist travel site...
Site 2 is going to be a general/regular travel site....
Should I keep them as seperate sites or integrate them into one large site?
Frankly, I am in a dilemma over this isue....
Any advice, pointers, related experience will be appreciated......thanks....
PS: I am currently favouring 2 seperate sites........
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#2 2006-12-20 06:12:32
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
Im jumping on a limb here but you arent the lady in the picture hey? that sucks 
About your sites, keep them seperate, your specialist site wont be very specialist when its drowned out by the more general information. Promote each of their growth and use the seperation to your advantage, if they are both "travel in brazil" related you can cross link them thus the better one gets the better the other one gets... unless one is a total flop in which case it will drag em both down... that would suck.
So yeah, keep em apart, build them each up nicely and then connect em so they feed off eachothers growth. Plus you can make both of em fairly big... check my sig out, when i started with Lalibela it was a mere 12 pages now its half an animal encyclopedia 
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#3 2006-12-20 06:18:38
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
One large site
use sub domains if you really want to kep things separate
the SEs favour large sites
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#4 2006-12-20 06:23:08
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
I am the lady in the picture - but only every third Saturday 
Thanks for your feedback; RS, appreciated 
The specialist site is already reasonably successful......the general site is newish, and needs to be developed......
Pleased you concur with seperate sites........just hope the undeveloped site dont bring the other down:yikes:
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#5 2006-12-20 06:24:10
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
As I posted, Northie throws a spanner in the works....
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#7 2006-12-20 06:36:45
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
Merlin wrote:
As I posted, Northie throws a spanner in the works....
its a gift.... just let it happen
And as i said before... because search engines favour bigger sites it would be better to expand on the two sites you have and let them grow separately and become roughly as succesful as eachother b4 linkin em... then if you still want to join em, do it and make a huge site... but make you sure you keep it under the better ranked and older domain name.
The new site wont really affect the old one negatively unless it really goes south. I wouldnt worry to much now though. Are you really the lady in the pic? its not cool for big hairy guys to do that! Although i will take my chances and presume you are a lady Welcome to SR!!
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#8 2006-12-20 07:02:43
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
nybc wrote:
both possibilities have their advantages.
One big site, like Northie says, keep things together, two sites enable link-building-strategies.
that's just spamdexing and the engines are getting very wise to it
times change, things update and to move with the times one now needs an authority site of their own.
big site
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#9 2006-12-20 07:08:55
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
Thats true... but im sticking to my guns on this one... i like the idea of future planning and the integration of two big sites to make a giant site. One day Lalibela will be an authority site... i just need every travel site in the world to link to me and can continue my plan of global safari domination... mwah ha ha
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#10 2006-12-20 13:11:05
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Re: Integration or seperate entities...?
Thanks for the input so far guys.....excellent stuff...
Northie has a good point about one large site.......But Ryan has some good reasons against integration (some I had thought of)
One big site does appeal, however, I feel strongly that I have two different markets here, with a very, very, small crossover....
Anyone got any experience or stats, on subdomains, and the way that search engines deal with them, regarding, SERPS......For instance, all things being equal (although they never are , are they would a smilar general travel site, on level 1 domain, rank higher than a competitiors sub-domain....?...
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