A few months ago I was a member of Niches-in-a-Box. The product consists of premade niche websites, including a landing page and about 12 silo sites based on related keywords. The sites look great, are full of info, and are well designed to be unique to each webmaster.
Problem is, it appears no matter how unique the technology allowed the sites to be, the basic template has proved to be too big of a foot print to avoid the notice of Google. At least that’s my take. As I put up my sites and built up backlinks, the sites were indexed fairly quickly. None of them are currently anywhere to be found in Google’s index. So, they were de-indexed. Does that mean blacklisted? I hope not! But what a waste. They’re still bringing in some traffic, but no where near where I’d like to see it.
I happened into the NIAB training center yesterday and learned they have made a series of videos that demonstrate how to move these sites to a new template. Again, with the landing page and 12 silo sites on subdomains, with php and html and 3 columns, this is a complex task. I had thought of doing it myself and had already moved the blogs to separate domains, but hadn’t moved the sites yet. Now I have videos to walk me through the process. I’m pleased and have started the process right away.
Since the sites have been de-indexed, I wonder if I should also use fresh URLs when I move them? I really like the domain names I picked originally, but it won’t help if I get attached to them. What I want is to set up solid sites and use SEO and article marketing to get them established.
I’ll keep you posted.
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