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  • WebServiceConsulting.com
    WebServiceConsulting.com last edited by Oct 28, 2013, 1:37 AM

    Is it wise to focus on multiple niches for one site, rather than zoning in one or two different niches?

    On one hand, you can target many more topics and go after tons of keywords, but on the other hand doesn't google get confused of what your site is really about? Won't google just focus on one of the niches that you provide more than all others?

    Any input would be great!

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    • SEO5Team
      SEO5Team last edited by Oct 29, 2013, 2:00 AM Oct 29, 2013, 2:00 AM

      Good response Patrick. I would agree with him. You can target multiple niches on one site however take due care with your on site efforts / taxonomy structure and get ready to add loads of good relevant content.

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      • WhiteboardCreations
        WhiteboardCreations last edited by Oct 28, 2013, 12:30 PM Oct 28, 2013, 12:29 PM

        102drive,

        Develop a website (or continue working on your current website) to develop a great user experience through navigation and how content is presented across the Home page and inner pages. Google doesn't necessarily see websites targeting multiple niches in one domain as a bad thing. Actually, they are getting better at making sure all websites put to the web are providing valuable, quality content for the searchers/your visitors. When talking about niche websites and only one domain, you'll need to have a strong strategy of not only high quality content development behind the niche and it's pages in the site, but also how and what links are being built to those pages. Targeting multiple niches on the Home page is going to be very tough because you don't want to risk over-optimizing your Home page or any page for that matter. On page SEO can only take so much and trying to hit many niches which don't compliment each other is going to be almost impossible by shear relevance of the keywords you are going after, the content you have on the site and how and where you can optimize those keywords within the page/source code.

        Build out your website like www.domain.com/niche1... then pages off of this and blog categories and articles linking to relevant pages and your off-page SEO linking to the /niche1 main page. www.domain.com/niche2 and so on. This way you can properly optimize each of these niche pages while referencing through from the root domain Home page or navigation and internal linking. It's like a client of ours who has many offices in different cities... we didn't build out a lot of sites for them, rather we are building authority to their main, older domain name like www.client.com/city1, www.client.com/city2 and so on. Then building their service pages with original content and blog articles off those folders for relevance.

        Hope this was helpful, but it'll be much easier on pumping good content into 1 site vs 5 or 10 other websites, especially if your domain has some age and a little authority build up in Google's eye. New sites will be tougher to rank, depending on your content, your competition, and your main keywords.

        Patrick

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        • Devanur-Rafi
          Devanur-Rafi last edited by Oct 28, 2013, 2:49 AM Oct 28, 2013, 2:48 AM

          Hi,

          If you want to focus on multiple niches using one domain, you have a huge task ahead (while this is highly recommended rather than coming up with multiple niche websites focused towards their corresponding niche). You would need content of great quality to cover all those niches. If you wish you make this domain to be able to rank high for different terms in multiple niches, you should prove the credibility of your website in terms of content quality and usefulness of it to the visitors. Take an example of websites like Wikipedia. They rank high for hundreds if not thousands of niches. So quality of the content is the key here.

          Websites that try to target multiple niches with thin content will go no where in search engines and will be flattened within no time. By the way, big and authority websites with quality content can out perform niche websites (focused on a single niche) in many ways.

          Hope you got the idea my friend.

          Best,

          Devanur Rafi

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