Offering content for 2 social sites together, good or bad?

[idzone]

Imagine this scenario:
You have a website which is ranking well for myspace layouts. And you have hundreds of myspace layouts, etc. Now, suppose you wish to offer myeeos layouts also. You create a separate section for myeeos layouts and add hundreds of pages here too.

Can this harm your 'myspace layouts' ranking in SEs? Looking for replies backed with reasons.

[Dale]

i know many sites that offer myspace layouts, friendster layouts, and xanga layouts all together and have good SE and PR and all :)

[idzone]

Yes, I know that too. But suppose you rank very well for myspace layouts. Would you risk it?

[omen]

It depends. The good thing about duplicating the content, to a new section with new keywords is that you're going to have more keywords on your site, more indexed pages (which could mean more pageviews), and more time people spend on the site.

The downfall is, if google sees it as duplicate content, then it could penalize you.

If I was you, I would make it as easy as possible for the end user, and just offer two code boxes, or two links such as "Get this for myspace" or Get this for myeeos.

This way you're making it easy as possible for them to install the layouts as quickly as possible, which is more profile linkbacks for you.

[idzone]

If I was you, I would make it as easy as possible for the end user, and just offer two code boxes, or two links such as "Get this for myspace" or Get this for myeeos.


If this is to be done, you cannot name the section as 'myspace layouts'. Also, it will mean mixing myspace and myeeos keywords on the same page.

[geg2]

The formula for Pagerank in the original paper is calculated on a page basis, not a site basis.

OK, currently Google Pagerank is just one of at least a hundred factors involved in ranking. However, Google rankings show individual webpages, not an entire site.

The fact that Wikipedia ranks high for certain health topics does not hurt its high rankings for certain historical topics. If a health topic page has lots of internal links that are related to health, then those internal links are helping that page. Wikipedia does not directly link a bunch of history pages to the health pages.

I'm guessing that you have lots of external backlinks going to the homepage with "Myspace Layouts" as the anchor text. If you want the homepage to rank for "Myeeos Layouts" as well as maintain your rankings for "Myspace Layouts", I would start getting backlinks that say "Myspace, Myeeos Layouts". Um, actually, Greg-J won't let you get that Myeeos in the backlink until Myeeos actually launches.

An established website has many advantages. You would have established traffic, PageRank, and backlinks. By creating new section for Myeeos, you would be piggybacking the authority and trust of your Myspace website.

In contrast, a brand new website would start with zero Pagerank, backlinks, and visitors. It might also take a week or two before the search engines even finish index the site.

The thing that you need to be most careful about is duplicate content. If the Myeeos pages are nearly identical to the Myspace pages, you could see some pages going into the Supplemental Results. Pages that end up in the Supplemental Results tend to rarely show up in the regular search results of Google.

[minnseoelite]

You can have content for both on your site. But generally search engines have become "theme" based so if you rank well for myspace layouts it is partly because your site is themed around myspace layouts. But overall I would say that as long as you offer my content related to myspace layouts as opposed to myeeos layouts you may see a slight rankings loss but nothing that cannot be fixed.