Mainstream question. Mini sites vs blog posts which is better? - GoFuckYourself.com

eroswebmaster · 11-26-2007, 11:58 AM

Just in case you don't know what I'm talking about, a mini-site is a site less than 20 pages deep that focuses on a long tail keyword.

I have a blog that focuses on a niche, however there are some micro niches within that niche, and I have found some pretty decent long tail keywords for those micro niches that I should be able to exploit.

What I am trying to figure out is if I should just use those long tail keywords as a post title, or create min-sites around them.

For example.

Blog - niche.com/long-tail-keyword/ that would be the post page url.
Or

long-tail-keyword.niche.com

Then drive traffic via links from the blog to those sub domain mini sites.

Which do you think would be better in your opinion?

11-26-2007, 12:00 PM

Should be the same if the title keywords and page text is similar.

eroswebmaster · 11-26-2007, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Gasper

Should be the same if the title keywords and page text is similar.

Okay, so there should be no real problem with dropping rank quicker as a sub-domain vs a blog that continuously gets spidered?

fris · 11-26-2007, 01:53 PM

create sub domains on the fly

chuvii · 11-26-2007, 03:31 PM

subdomains better

baddog · 11-26-2007, 04:45 PM

blogs ...

eroswebmaster · 11-26-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

blogs ...

Not blogs...as in whole blog sites..but min-sites vs blog posts...a post within an already established blog.

While it is a micro niche of the niche I'm targeting, it's not big enough to blog about daily...so basically 3 articles tops and leave it there to do it's work over the year...whether that means it brings in $1.00 a day or more.

baddog · 11-26-2007, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by eroswebmaster

Not blogs...as in whole blog sites..but min-sites vs blog posts...a post within an already established blog.

While it is a micro niche of the niche I'm targeting, it's not big enough to blog about daily...so basically 3 articles tops and leave it there to do it's work over the year...whether that means it brings in $1.00 a day or more.

You have the main niche as the blog?

eroswebmaster · 11-26-2007, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

You have the main niche as the blog?

Yes...so I'm trying to figure out if I should do the micro-niches as posts on the main blog vs mini-sites around those micro-niches that the blog links to in a post.

V_RocKs · 11-26-2007, 05:24 PM

Subdomains can get you into problems.

baddog · 11-26-2007, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by eroswebmaster

Yes...so I'm trying to figure out if I should do the micro-niches as posts on the main blog vs mini-sites around those micro-niches that the blog links to in a post.

blog posts

eroswebmaster · 11-26-2007, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by V_RocKs

Subdomains can get you into problems.

hmm..in what way?

nekrom · 11-26-2007, 08:54 PM

Mini sites with say 5ish pages targeting long tail phrases on various "platforms" does work well for me.

-N

$5 submissions · 11-26-2007, 10:18 PM

If you'd like to attract social media traffic to complement your SE traffic, I'd go with blogs. A large part of whether this will work depends on your content.

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