Multiple sites under one domain

[Web Artist]

Hi. I was curious to know if search engines penilize sites that have multiple sites under 1 domain. I want to buy another domain name and point it to a section on my server that would contain a separate site from the main url. New hosting services for every domain is becoming expensive.

Thanks Cie Art

[awall19]

If you deeply intertwine websites and have few links comming from external resources then you may trip a spam filter. Otherwise it would be ok.

One of my host lists unlimited domains for under $4.00 a month total (for all domains combined)

http://www.3.75-hosting.com/

[awall19]

Typically if you have what you would deem to be multiple sites you should break it up into subdomains or use multiple domains


best of luck
aaron

[fathom]

Hi. I was curious to know if search engines penilize sites that have multiple sites under 1 domain. I want to buy another domain name and point it to a section on my server that would contain a separate site from the main url.
Thanks Cie Art

I doubt you will ever have a problem (even if heavily linked as long as the content (e.g. "multiple sites" infers "different sites") and not just the same stuff under a different domain - with slight alternations.

New hosting services for every domain is becoming expensive.

You can get hosting at $2 - $10 all over the place - I have 18 server accounts for less than $100/month and less than my phone bill - this can't be too expensive! :-)

[awall19]

I doubt you will ever have a problem (even if heavily linked as long as the content (e.g. "multiple sites" infers "different sites") and not just the same stuff under a different domain - with slight alternations.

It does not matter what the content of the site is honestly. If they are the exact same that is obviously a problem, but if they are slightly different thats ok.

When a site gets in trouble for cross linking is when it has tons of cross links AND few external links point into the network.

[Mel]

I doubt you will ever have a problem (even if heavily linked as long as the content (e.g. "multiple sites" infers "different sites") and not just the same stuff under a different domain - with slight alternations.

It does not matter what the content of the site is honestly. If they are the exact same that is obviously a problem, but if they are slightly different thats ok.

When a site gets in trouble for cross linking is when it has tons of cross links AND few external links point into the network.

My experience has been that so long as searchers end up a pages relevant to thier search queries, most search engines do nothing about multiple sites, even when reported to them.