DiggleNamer

I am going to launch 4 static geo-specific directories on the specific topic “farmingadvisor” (US, UK, Canada, Australia). The directories will list experts that can advise on farming issues in each country.

It is important that each site has its own domain with a ccTLD because each may be sold separately, and because advisor is spelt differently in the UK and US.

To promote each of these directories I am going to have a blog on each site. Each of these 4 blogs will have identical posts for 75% of the content which will be general farming news, and country-specific farming posts for 25% of the content. Over time this split should evolve to 50:50.

I am trying to wrap my head around the best way to execute this, and perhaps my current parameters need changing.

- Will each blog’s promotional power be severely inhibited by the fact that 75% of its content is repeated on three other domains?
- Is there an easy way to upload the content to all of the blogs at the same time even though they are on different domains?
- If the blog had 100% the same information for each site would that be better, there could be “1. DIRECTORY 2. SHARED BLOG 3. COUNTRY SPECIFIC BLOG” or is that crazy to have two blogs on one domain?
- So maybe it could be One Blog with links to four directories and each directory has a NEWS page rather than a blog?

I am really puzzled by the technical issues, and how to make it work for SEO, and would welcome comments and insights of any nature. I am going to invest some cash into this so I don’t want to make fundamental structural errors.

dbtbandit67

i dont understand the logic behind 3 different domains, but it having the same blog. having the same content on all 3 does hurt indexing. if the concepts are universally accepted, you should put it all in one domain, under a dot com, not a country code extension

and how much research did you put into this before investing your money? this can be a long and frustrating process, don't expect results right away

DiggleNamer

the logic behind four different domains is:

1. each country's domain would have different end-users, advertisers, and potential purchasers

2. each country's blog will have 25% country specific information

If i just had each country directory on a separate subdomain then it couldn't be sold separately. I think directories that are limited to one country would be better.

but i am open to all suggestions