Phase Two: Blog Title reflects the domain name of the entry URL. This means every domain on the hub will have the blog title reflect the domain name (and link to it). The goal of Phase Three will be to install a series of images, unique and random to each category of domain. This might take some time to collect and categorize the images and this will be the beginning phase of the hub plugin. Upcoming phases will be series of articles unique to domains.
One thing I am wrestling with is maintaining the canonical nature of WordPress while splitting this site among the domains. You see, we are not using the multi-site version of WordPress, we are using one domain with WordPress as the hub with 180+ domains aliased to the hub. So, we are thinking this through step-by-step as we consider potential features, strategies and such. If you have any ideas about what features to add, or the end result, please contact us via the contact form on the contact page.
NOTICE: All you WP hackers out there – it does no good to hack our disabled comments because they will not appear on the page and you will not [...]
Phase Two Completed, Now on to Phase Three
We Decided to Get Out of the Porn Business
This site is just getting started and already I have been asked, “Why are you doing this project?”
The short answer is, “I decided to get out of the porn business.”
For people who know me, this is a shocker, so I might as well give you the long answer. Years ago, I started a hub and aliased all my unused domains to it (500+). Articles were assigned by domains and/or categories via a central database.
Most domains had content unique to the domain, or the category it belonged to. Because of the non-canonical nature of the site, one could actually read all the articles without leaving the domain via hacking the URL. It was a fun project to code and the hub produced almost $200 per month in revenue from Google Ad Sense. As time went by, Google began playing around with their algorithm and revenue began to decline because I did not stay on top of this.
Complicating the matter, the hub all the domains were aliased to was googleZoogle.com. It took Google about four years to notice before they sent me a cease and desist order. I could have argued googleZoogle was not a trademark infringement and nothing on the site [...]