Could someone please give me some advice on this issue? 3

[JoJoH]

Hi all,

Say I have a main site

http://www.some-jewelry-site.com,

now I have 2 other site

http://www.necklace.com,

http://www.earrings.com.

Now say a customer visits my site

http://www.necklace.com

or

http://www.earrings.com,

if she decided to check out and purchase a particular item, she will be led back to the main site

http://www.some-jewelry-site.com

for payment. Is it legitimate? Now, is it legitimate for me to submit the home page of all 3 web sites

http://www.some-jewelry-site.com,

http://www.necklace.com,

and

http://www.earrings.com

to Yahoo directories even they lead to the main site

http://www.some-jewelry-site.com?

Please advice.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mThomas]

As long as the content on each site is not a duplicate of the content on the other sites, then you are probably ok. It is ok to have multiple sites with seperate individual relavent content and have a central ordering site.

If each sites uses the same content, then you run the risk of being banned by sites like Google.

Which to submit, well that depends on the search site. There was a time when Yahoo cross referenced the regestered owner of each site submission to prevent multiple index submissions.

I'm interested in what some of the others who post regularly in this forum have to say about your excellent question.

mike

 

[JoJoH]

Thanks Mike,

"It is ok to have multiple sites with seperate individual relavent content and have a central ordering site."

I am wondering, would selling the same merchandise but have a totally different page designed be considered as "seperate individual relavent content"?

Please advice.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ChrisHirst]

I would agree with mike that if your sites have relevant content with little or no duplication you will be ok and also to add I am assuming that the order site will be secure (https) which the SEs should not index anyway.


Chris.


Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[JoJoH]

Hi Chris, hi Mike

I apologize if I have not been clear in my first post... Actually that "ordering site/main site" is a full blown site that have merchandise for sell as well, not just for ordering. So it has both http and https sections. I am just wondering if it is legitimate for me to have a main site and a few other sites link to the main site for ordering -- Now the other sites sell the exact same merchandise as the main site, just with different page design, is it legetimate?

Please advice,

Thanks in advance.

 

[Wullie]

Chris,

A SE will spider an SSL site without a problem.

A lot of sites use only SSL for the complete site, so you would lose a lot of sites if they didn't spider them.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[ulteriormotif]

"Now the other sites sell the exact same merchandise as the main site, just with different page design, is it legetimate? "

All's fair in love and war, I suppose.

Legitimacy, ethics and respect for your customers are things I won't comment on here.. you probably wouldn't like the answers.

However, in relation to..... "just with different page design"...... I assume that the textual content on the page will remain the same, ie, the blurb for earrings design 1024 will still read "these earrings look so much like a real slice of apple pie, he'll want to nibble them right off your earlobe!" on both/all sites... but site A might have a blue background and Site B might have a floral background and different font, etc. You're begging for a duplicate content penalty there.

One of the most common mistakes people make is to assume that if it looks VISUALLY different to a PERSON, the search engine SPIDER will see it as different. Nope. A spider reads text. A spider does not care that this page is arial and that page is trebuchet, or the colour or pattern of wallpaper. A spider just cares that both these pages say "these earrings look so much...."

....and worse, by pointing them all to the same payment system you're pretty much hanging a big neon sign saying 'yeah, that's right, I'm spamming you big boy, come get me!'

I do not recommend going down this path, but if you are going to do it, make sure you write separate and unique content for each site.

 

[JoJoH]

Hi ulteriormotif,

ROFL... I love the description for earrings 1024! J/K. Anyways, thanks for your reply! By all means, please do say what you want to say about legitimacy, ethics and respect for my customers, I really don't mind, honest! How could anyone learn if they always want to hear what they want to hear! Anyways, what I was planning to do was to build multiple sites/mini sites to hopefully improve my rankings... what is your thought on that ulteriormotif? Some say mini sites are useless, some say mini sites are an excellent tool for improving search engine rankings... so... I don't know. As for pointing different sites to the same payment system, yea you are right, it is quite risky, but if I have different payment system for each web site than it would be pretty high maintenance right? hum....(thinking). Anyways what is your thought on doorway pages and hallway pages?? Please advice.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ChrisHirst]

on the doorway\gateway\minisite issue you should be only asking one question 'Is this appropriate for my visitors'!
If you do anything just for SE rankings it may get a short term boost but will be doomed to failure at some point as the SEs are slowly weeding out what are deemed [by them] as poor quality sites.
Converting visitors into sales is more important than rankings and that will need the visitor to feel that they can trust the people behind the site.

for Wullie. yep I realised that most spiders will follow https sites. Long Day! thinking part firmly inserted in speech orifice.


Chris.


Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[JoJoH]

Thank you Chris, I will definitely keep that in mind!