Fellow
PAW Members,
I have a question regarding the re-design of my site. It's been up since March 2005, has probably 100 pages (although not recently updated), and is getting OK page rank on a handful of pages (PR 3/10). I'm getting about 80 visits/15 uniques per day and don't rank highly for any keywords of consequence.
I'm re-designing the site and taking it off the WordPress platform, so I'd like to know what impact that will have on any page rank and SEO benefits the site and pages currently enjoy because the content will no longer reside at the same URL (i.e. removal of the /category/article-title linking structure)?
I'm changing the structure of the site as well. It will be the authority site amongst a
network that feed into it through RSS feed distribution. Each targeted sub-niche (i.e. freeroll tournaments, poker room reviews, etc.) will reside on its own domain and receive its content via the sub-niche related RSS feed on the authority site with anchor text embedded links leading back to the authority site pages. I'm hoping that this will provide further benefit to the authority site to assist it in ranking well for some more competitive keyword terms.
If you've read it, the idea behind this structure is from an ebook, Revenge of the Mininet by Michael Campbell. The pages produced by the RSS feed that reside on the sub-niche domains act as feeder pages to the internal structure of the authority site via keyword-specific text - giving it page rank, link popularity, and boosting off-page optimization.
That being said, do any of you SEO buffs use webhosts who offer individual IP addresses for each feeder site or would know of where to find one?
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Jason