Niche Site(s) to Single Authority Site - Advice Needed (Content Copy)

NovaflareFX · Nov 6, 2017

Hey Guys,

I currently have 4 niche sites doing fairly average. Each site takes money to run, their own PBN (25 links), content costs etc. Social media management of four sites etc etc.

I was thinking of buying a domain with a great backlink profile setup with only brand/ url links from top places.
A real quality website. I was thinking of redirecting all of my old domains to this one new super site and moving all my 4 niche sites content to just the one site and silo it correctly.

So nichesite1.com would redirect to newdomain.com/niche1 etc etc.

A) Does this sound stupid?
B) Is this even a good idea?

I was thinking that with one site, I could do proper social media management, decent linking (100 pbn links) etc.
I could even afford rent some top tier links as my costs would be 1/4. It's a real hassle managing 4 websites, but one would be far easier.

Jiung · Nov 6, 2017

I don't know, some say don't fix what's broken. Why not just start over?

NovaflareFX · Nov 6, 2017

jiungsong said:
I don't know, some say don't fix what's broken. Why not just start over?

I suppose in a way I basically am, i'm going to start a new website anyway which will cover a whole range of niches, I was just thinking that I may as well put my old content to good use instead of closing it forever.

daemon6666 · Nov 6, 2017

I recently did something similar and it really depends on what you're going for here. It sounds like you want to streamline your traffic in order to build a brand surrounding it? (which in itself has very positive implications in some cases).

I'm not sure if I would through in redirects from the get-go, but rather build up a nice backlink profile for your new "supersite" from other sources before doing so.

Warrenway · Nov 6, 2017

Why not keep the four "average" sites separate, automating their upkeep as much as possible, and then just start an entirely new project with the new site? This way you won't mess up the other 4 sites with an experiment (because who really knows how the reused content would do on the new site), and you'll have a fresh site to focus on completely but still will have the other sites to fall back on if the new one doesn't pan out.

NovaflareFX · Nov 6, 2017

This is the thing, i'm likely going to close the other 4 sites down as they make me about $100 a year each, which is basically how much it costs me to run.
My thought is that instead of trying to grow 4 small websites, I just grow one huge one with a bunch different sections.

LuckyCharm007 · Nov 6, 2017

Keep the sites and send a link from your home pages to your new site. You'll keep your $400/year + retain some of your link juice.

marrrko · Nov 6, 2017

I think you should read this
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-few-strong-pages-many-weak-24726.html
Everything will be more clear for you.

patriotnews · Nov 7, 2017

I started doing this about 6 months ago; here is the plan I followed.
Site 1 had 20 pieces of content, I took down 10 articles, put them onto the new domain and redirected each post from the old to the new domain.
Site 2 had approx 60 pieces of content, I took down 20, and did the same as above.
Site 3 had approx 8 articles, I took down 4, and did the same as above.
Once Google recognized the redirects and indexed the new domain/content, I started over, along with adding new content in between.
I quickly grew my site back to it's original position and no longer have to manage multiple accounts, and all the associated junk.

I was lucky, as ALL my sites were closely related within a larger niche.

Zshan · Nov 7, 2017

It is better to keep your money making sites separate and start a new site

NovaflareFX · Nov 7, 2017

patriotnews said:
I was lucky, as ALL my sites were closely related within a larger niche..

None of my niche sites are related atall, do you think this would be a hugely negative thing to do?
I was planning to just silo information well, almost like creating a subdomain for each field, but a data silo instead.

patriotnews · Nov 9, 2017

NovaflareFX said:
None of my niche sites are related atall, do you think this would be a hugely negative thing to do?
I was planning to just silo information well, almost like creating a subdomain for each field, but a data silo instead.

I think that might give you some issues.
But you'll never know without trying.

Ozzyzig · Nov 9, 2017

I've done this in the past for the same reasons you've highlighted. What I did do though was re-create the content and put it on the new site (not everything could be migrated), and I kept the original sites running for an additional year. The benefit of this is that I was still getting a recurring revenue from the sites that were already ranked, and it allowed the fresh site to gain natural rankings before it was 'enhanced'.
The original sites weren't closely related to each other, but when it came to the new site I re-structured the data in such a way that for a lot of the articles, it worked.

The original sites are now gone and the new pages are ranking even better than the original ones where. I think this was down to better experience when it comes to building sites, as well being able to structure the content in a better manner.

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