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Microsites. A Bad Idea Most of the Time.

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Microsites. A Bad Idea Most of the Time.
By Vanessa Fox, Nine by Blue
May 11, 2010

This morning, TechFlash noted that Drugstore.com is expanding its microsite strategy around product categories. The growing list now includes:

  • deluxesalonsupply.com
  • beauty.com
  • visiondirect.com
  • sexualwellbeing.com
  • athisbest.com
  • thenaturalstore.com
  • allergysuperstore.com
Possibly you can already tell based on my headline that I think this is not the awesomest strategy. I could call it short-sighted, misguided, any number of other prefixed words, but perhaps I’ll just tell you why microsites are often not the best strategy to pursue. Before I get to that though, I want to point out that I find microsites a bad idea most of the time. Sometimes they are a great idea. Although the more of them you have, the less likely this is the case.

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