Aggregating many sites into one site

[bostonmark]

When I was young and naive, I started many sites, one for each general
topic I wanted to cover. But all related to my theme of languages. I
should have created one mega site.

My question is: is there a way or is it even good for seo? to
collapse all my domains into one, that is make google treat all my
domains as one? does this make sense?

For example

I have
http://learnrussianlearnrussian.com/
http://www.polishgrammar.com/
http://www.mp3languagelearning.com/
etc

maybe I could collapse it under this domain:

http://www.claritaslux.com/ (stong site)
or
http://www.learnfast.biz (weak site)

where all the pr flows to the main site and then distributed in a more
logical less chaotic way.

I know with 301 people use and is accepted but I do no like any
redirects unless really really needed.

I have learned a lot and and can not go back. I have a about a dozen
language sites that are mostly pr4s and get good traffic - my main one
4000 a day and my others about 400 a day.

Is there a google accepted solution or should I just let things be?

Thanks! Mark

[Edward Langenback]

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
bostonmark <mbie...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> When I was young and naive, I started many sites, one for each general
> topic I wanted to cover. But all related to my theme of languages. I
> should have created one mega site.
>
> My question is: is there a way or is it even good for seo? to
> collapse all my domains into one, that is make google treat all my
> domains as one? does this make sense?
>

snip

> I know with 301 people use and is accepted but I do no like any
> redirects unless really really needed.
>
> I have learned a lot and and can not go back. I have a about a dozen
> language sites that are mostly pr4s and get good traffic - my main one
> 4000 a day and my others about 400 a day.
>
> Is there a google accepted solution or should I just let things be?

I would use the 301's in .htaccess to redirect everyone to the new
location for each page. It can make for a long .htaccess, but is
worth doing. SE's will start indexing the new site quicker that way
and people returning to old urls automatically get the new one, add in
a reminder to update bookmarks and y'r in business.


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