Panda/Penguin & more than one services site in niche
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Hello,
My friend has a personal development training site. I have been advised not to make separate personal coaching sites for the owners of the training sites.
Do you have experience that Panda/Penguin could penalize for separate sites in a similar niche?
Do you need any more info to give a good response?
Thank you.
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We have a training site that sells trainings.
The 2 owners of the training site each also has personal coaching practices.
They want possibly a 2nd and 3rd site on separate domains for promoting their coaching services.
Does that help?
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Are you trying to create a new website for each individual Coach that is listed on your friends website that lists a bunch of different Coaches?
If so then why wouldn't you?
Are you trying to create a second tier of websites to promote the top "Coaching" website for purposes of link manipulation?
If so then make it look like you are creating a website for an individual coach or websites that discuss coaches in a general location. When I say make it look like this assumes you know what can get you in trouble with a search engine. If you have to ask what that is you should not attempt this.
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