I'm thinking of beginning work on an ambitious pligg site. It will be targeted at a nationwide audience, but I want to retain the specificity for individual states. Here are a couple of options I'm considering and I would like any advice on how to proceed.
1. Create a landing page on the domain's index page that would redirect to individual state sites.
Example: User visits my main domain, clicks on New York, and is redirected to maindomain.com/newyork/ where there is a pligg site targeted at NY news only. If someone wants to check out Ohio, it goes to maindomain.com/ohio/ where there is a pligg site targeted at Ohio news only.
The headache is that I'm thinking this would involve 50 separate pligg installs, which doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but could probably be automated somewhat to reduce my workload. After that, there is the routine maintenance required of 50 installs.
I see two benefits to this method - first, it's kind of the way I want it, and second, I think it might be better for SEO.
2. One pligg install with 50 main categories, one for each state. Each parent category would probably have about 5 subcategories.
I'm thinking that this might be the better option as I would be focused on one site. However, that's a lot of categories. How would this affect the site's performance?
Anyway, I'm not sure which way to proceed. I'm open to suggestions!
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