craigkillick wrote:
I actually intend to build small 1-2 page web sites for each of these domains that link into a main site (I might even centralise the data and feed it into each of the sites using reference pages so when I change it on one, it changes all of them). These pages can be very specific and qualify that you fit the criteria that someone may search with, for instance, the golf version will be all about golf, the district about the district, etc.
These have cost about £70 for two years all in and to host them will cost about £40 each (will only do one for co.uk or .com not both - I will set the otehrs to forward)) so that is approx £195 per year.
Gateway domains - I fail to see where you gain here, if you have multiple domains and sites then you have to promote them all seperatly, link build them all seperatly, pay for them - and at the end of the day they will all be less than the 'whole' could be
I think if was considering something like the above then i would go down the sub-domain route and at least save yourself some cash
With one large site covering all the angles the smaller sites could, you have one marketing campaign to run, one link building campaign and one content rich website which SE's love.
Each page in the site becomes a potential landing / entrance point for a client, Golf searches get the golf page (s)
One large site also heads you towards 'authority' status and the benefits that brings
Just my thoughts