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I have an existing site almost 85% of its contents are database driven, Now I want 50 more such sites. I have an Idea of using this site as base site and access this site from different domains. I can keep database different for each domain. All of these websites behave and work as independent sites , except the fact, that these all is actually using a single site with their own database .

Now Is this a feasible idea ? what are the Pros and cons of this approach ? Is there an issue of Google blocking these sites arise ?

I have given one more option of keeping centralized database for sites and keep there code in respective domains.

I am confused as am also a newbie in PHP and web development.

I found some breakthrough here .htaccess RewriteRule: two domains using same server and directory now I have to see about Google issue

Thanks

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Gunjan Srivastava
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    Surely you want both a shared codebase *and* a shared databases. Duplicating either will make maintenance a nightmare. Add a "sites" table to your database, and update your application to be site-aware. – Ben Lee Sep 28 '11 at 11:57
  • One application, One codebase, One database, 50 sites. – Ben Lee Sep 28 '11 at 11:57
  • possible duplicate of [Using one site for multiple domain in PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7569466/using-one-site-for-multiple-domain-in-php) - Please don't duplicate questions. – hakre Sep 28 '11 at 11:57
  • yes I did added this question yesterday I have entirely different approach and issues today, please bear with me I am not getting exact answer of my problem , I need easy answer in straight forward manner – Gunjan Srivastava Sep 28 '11 at 12:01
  • Why would you want to do this? – Petah Sep 28 '11 at 12:01
  • One Codebase , 50 site and 50 database – Gunjan Srivastava Sep 28 '11 at 12:01
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    Google would lower your rating if you had lots of duplicate content across multiple domains. – Petah Sep 28 '11 at 12:02
  • "I want quick replicate" is not good england, please try again – Petah Sep 28 '11 at 12:03
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    Sorry I am not native English speaker , so please excuse my language , I will not have duplicate contents more then 5% in each sites as all contents are coming from their respective database – Gunjan Srivastava Sep 28 '11 at 12:20

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A big con is the duplication of comments (as mentioned in the comments).

If domain1.com has contains the same, or all most the same content as domain2.com Google gives both sites a penalty which will result in in lower rating. Keep in mind that the same happens if you duplicate content over multiple pages in a website. (domain1.com/page1 having the same content as domain1.com/page2).

If the 50 site have unique contents this won't be a problem.

Roel Veldhuizen
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  • Roel these are going to be unique contents site , only codebase is same. let me give you example I own a abcuniversity.com and it is kind of search plateform for its student so all data is related to abcuniversity , now i want xyzuniversity.com for same purpose , so you can see contents are not same at all .... Thanks – Gunjan Srivastava Sep 28 '11 at 13:04
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    @phpfighter, only con could then be that if you make one mistake with updating code all 50 sites are down. – Roel Veldhuizen Sep 28 '11 at 14:15