the sub domain conundrum

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When i first started doing SEO (about 8 years ago i guess) sub domains were huge. The whole idea got killed a couple of years later, but back in the day I was setting up "hub" type sites and setting sub domains under it.

If the topic was "cars" i would register a domain named something like "carsfixingnet.com" and set brand names or keywords under it (like "toyota.carsfixingnet.com" or "car-mats.carsfixingnet.com"). These sites had thousands of pages in them, each niche held 20-40 pages, and each site would have 50-200 niches in it.

When those kind of sites got killed I gave it a fight for a couple of weeks and moved on, but never touched them again, today these sites bring in no more than $300 a year, which is not bad but nothing much.

My problem is that I can not decide what to do with these... the solutions I come up with are -
1. keep as is (as long as its paying for the registration and hosting)
2. set up redirects to all those pages and set them as new under the main domain
3. 301 the whole sub domain to a newly registered domain that will have a more-or-less EMD name (will register carmatsworlds.com for example)

If anyone did this, or knows anything about it, will appreciate the help.
 


seriously... no one?
damn... wanted to post some tits and ass to encourage people to respond but looks like it might get me into trouble posting in this section.
 
I think it depends on what kind of traffic you're getting. If the site is not getting much traffic and making $300 per year, then just leave it on the backburner and keep paying off the reg fees. If you're getting a lot of traffic and not converting it as well as you think, then forward the traffic to something that will make more money. Maybe even consider forwarding the traffic to a CPA offer. just my $0.02
 
thanks aproxaday,
the WHOLE thing makes about $300 a year (that is like 3,000 pages, 100+ niches as sub domains), obviously some are better and some are worthless, if I register new domains and redirect to them I will do so for only the ones that make at least $20 a year to start.
 
Go through and see which ones are generating most of your income and pair down to those.

Or, if the sites have some decent PR, sell blogroll links. A few PR4 links could bring in 300 / month rather than a year.
 
Mightier said:
Go through and see which ones are generating most of your income and pair down to those.

Or, if the sites have some decent PR, sell blogroll links. A few PR4 links could bring in 300 / month rather than a year.
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Nice idea, good thinking...
 
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