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I have a site on the subject already that has been up for a year and doing about as expected with a few hundred visits / day.
I recently ran across a very similar domain name and picked it up to park on mysite.com.
Then I started thinking that the new domain might actually be better for the forum.
However, I have read that starting a stand-alone forum is a lot more difficult than adding a forum to an existing site.
I suppose that I could generate some content to attract the SEs (I don't plan on doing any PPC).
So my questions are:
1 - Do you recommend adding a forum to mysite.com or starting a stand-alone with mynewsite.com?
2 - How many pages of (reasonably) good targeted content, at a minimum, would be enough to get a SE's attention?
TIA
1 - Do you recommend adding a forum to mysite.com or starting a stand-alone with mynewsite.com?2 - How many pages of (reasonably) good targeted content, at a minimum, would be enough to get a SE's attention?
First search for other forums in the niche, and see how much active support they get.
If you add the forum to your site, then the forum will get the benefit of the site's 'reputation' in visitors' and SEs' eyes; also, the site would benefit from the forum, once it got established, in terms of SEO, and in customers. Unless you have a strong reason to keep them separate, logic for adding the forum to your existing site is overwhelming.
The second question is meaningless. Single pages can get SE placings; 5000 page sites can fail to. Numbers of pages is not an issue.
