Promotional Products Linkbuilding Example

I own a promotional products company and we sell locally but I want to begin getting more traffic from Google.

I own a custom domain for our company which has been registered for about 2-3 years without any link building. However we can also build free online stores through our distributors website, and these sites are hosted on their main domain, i.e. http://www.theirsite.com/custom-aprons or http://www.theirsite.com/embroideredlogos, etc. Their main domain is PR5+ while ours is at a PR0 without any link building.

My question is this - which would be better, setting up multiple sites through their domain and spamming them (since the main domain is powerful and could handle it), or trying to build the authority of my own domain?

It seems like the latter option is better for branding but I have a feeling using the distributed approach with separate pages on their main domain would allow me to rank more quickly.

What do you guys think?

Do both man. As i tell everyone the more your Product is on the web the more you sell, the more backlinks you create the more traffic you get. I would take your time work at one then the other. Then you will be raking in the big bucks

Start your own Domain!

Thanks for the advice... I've been using adwords for a group of related keywords and through that I've found some that get a decent amount of impressions without much competition.

I'm going to setup a site or two on their domain and start with that and eventually build up my domain.

With affiliate sites I'm more laid back and focus on speed but for our promo products site I tend to be a perfectionist and I like to design each page until it fits my standards - that's why I never did a lot of link building for it, because I spend a lot of time developing the site itself.

To get traffic increase your back link from high PR websites or for leads you can do classified and craigslist it is beneficial for you.