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Ask HN: Should I create one website or many?

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I am trying to start some websites in the anticipation of getting enough traffic that I might make few bucks for pocket money. I am now confused if I should create 'one website or many' because essentially the content is such that it can also be put in one website.

I think if I create many websites then it might help individual PR of the site which can be utilized to make other projects build up on that. How should I go about it?

Edit: Sorry, I should have been more descriptive.

The content is all created by me. Everything is custom and it's about infographs. I shall be creating infographs on many topics which essentially target the web users who want to spend some time reading random facts and information.

It'd be something like good.is

Now I can either get a domain name about the "fastest animals" at fastestanimals.com and just put the infograph about the fastest animals there

OR

I can get a domain like randomfacts.com and put all the infographs on one website.

Focus on one site, one big keyword, e.g. "infograph" and all the smaller keywords related to it, e.g."finance infographs"- make these either subdomain or http://infographs.com/finance-infographs.

In addition, make sure your CMS automatically creates titles and your all your pages have the right titles e.g. wall street infographs + Finance infographs \ infographs.com.

Just my two bits.

In my opinion, it depends on the crossover of users. If the information is clearly not useful to different users its ok to put them on different sites. If one site is fastestanimals.com and one is baseballplayers.com then it might be better to create separate sites to cater to the audiences separately.

I sometimes wonder why serverfault, poweruser and stackoverflow are on different domains as I think in many cases its the same user community. nobody is going to search three times in each service.

I think you're lining yourself up to be spread too thin. Creating infographics is time consuming and I would suspect that it would be better to focus on one topic and really nail that first before thinking about spreading out across multiple topics. Can you really create enough infographics on one topic often enough to have users coming back to your site over and over? What about multiple topics?

I'll admit that I don't know much about the SEO aspects of this though.

This absolutely depends on the nature of the content in the site. Is it user generated? Are the users of the different sites the same people?

In my opinion, you're not giving out enough information to get back valuable advice.

I have edited the post and made it more descriptive.

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