| Rick, I have / had about 800 or so minisites floating around in Google, and they do extremely well. However beginning in January 2009, I started to notice quite a number of my minisites dropping from Google's index, and obviously that means decent domains are getting banned. I don't know if this is a new policy change with Google, or my own personal bad luck, but once AEIOU.com has "enough" back links, you may want to consider not linking back to your company with your templates (really consider risk vs. reward on that). You seem to be changing your templates around frequently, obviously good move there.
When Google does decide to strike, they take the gloves off, so for anyone doing minisite development, switch your code around, keep your templates varied, keep shaking things up, or you could wake one painful morning to find a chunk of decent domains banished to the dark dreary halls of Yahoo and MSN Live.
2 cents from a minisite guy... |