Eric Scalf Jumps Into Single Page SEO

Posted on April 19, 2006 at 10:08 am

Eric Scalf of MindBlog, a blog that seeks to help amateur bloggers, has decided to step into the world of creating a single page on a particular subject. The goal is to monetize this one page with a blend of Amazon affiliate links, Chitika and Adsense. His first attempt on halogen lamps is worth a peek.

In the long run, using a dedicated domain name as opposed to running the page off Eric’s personal blog domain, fyreplace.com, should provide benefits from an SEO perspective. The tradeoff would be additional costs to register / host the domain. An upcoming post will cover some tips on this aspect of creating a single page SEO.

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2 Comments
  1. Eric Scalf Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    By placing the pages on my current domain, I am leveraging the page rank, and rapid inclusion into search engines. Were I to go to a seperate domain - as I have done with my original AdSense project, topdogdeals.com, it could be weeks, or even months before the page(s) were included in search results.

    I may go to a subdomain, such as information.fyreplace.com, but I doubt it. The goal is to see how viable of a method this is, without using arbitrage systems, and without paying for traffic. With the advent of the Google sandbox, it pays to use an already established domain.
  2. 1Offs Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 6:40 pm

    Glad you mentioned the sandbox, Eric. Thanks for stopping by! There are many school of thoughts regarding this, most would agree that having the keywords in the domain helps out a lot.

    Leveraging the existence search engine is a valid short-term benefit. Do you feel there are any long term benefits to this method?

    There are others who don’t mind being in the sandbox as the point was to “web it, and forget it” with a single page project, and let it gather clicks forever (theoretically).

    Here’s a disadvantage to the same domain idea. If the original domain goes out of favour somehow with the search engines, every page on the domain will suffer with it, even subdomains.
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