Yet another Article Underground query…
Another great question about Article Underground… you guys are really getting value for money from me for this promotion! 
“Hi Neil,
I notice that you are recommending both ArticleUnderground and Liz Sherwoods Adgold Rush.
I wonder which would be the preferred choice if one had money only for one. Also I have a concern about ArticleUndeground. The 400 articles that one gets every month cover a wide range of topics. How does one go about using them if one wants to operate with an optimum minimum of domain names and sites. Because each domain name involves USD 5-7 and each new hosting ( for IP Diversity and theme focus ) involves USD 10 per month. And the wide subject range of the Articles can involve upto 50 domain names and hosted sites.
I am sure there must be a way to use sub domains and build the article content sites around a web like structure. But can people with little experience do it, and justify the money spent on AU. I’m sure there must be a way to maximise the use of the 400 articles with a minimum of websites. Can you explain and throw some light on this aspect, please.
Am I missing something?”
My reply…
I’d have to recommend AdGold first, because that provides 20 pre-written articles for each niche site… and 12 niches per month. Article Underground is very good for providing additional content for each site you have built or will build and for promoting your pages using their blog system. I think both dovetail wonderfully together and I’m trying not to say that one without the other would be only 25% as effective.
Think of each “main” site you build (the Adgold sites) as the “main meal“. It’s nice to have a main meal… the meat, the veg… great. Lots of people build “main meal” sites and move on to the next site, and the next site…
Now think of adding Article Underground articles as adding the “extras” that make a meal really special… the starter, the soup, the side salad, the glass of wine, the lighting, the ambient music, the dessert, the coffee, the mint with the coffee.
You’re a search engine. Which site do you visit? A main meal site, or a site with a main meal and all the extras? 
(more important, which site will you score highly in your search engine results?)
(by the way, don’t think you have to build a site around every article you get from AU… 400 articles is a ton… it’s almost too many to work with… until you realize that using some of the articles to add to your niche sites… the on-topic ones from your sets of 400 is, IMO, the smart way to use them.)
As for the domains, yes, you could use subdomains, but I don’t know what impact that would have on your SE rankings. As each site costs $8 per year, aim to have each site make $8 per month and each domain will easily pay for itself. Then consider if each site made $8 per week… per day…
As for separate IP addresses… I don’t see why you’d need separate IP addresses for each of the sites… just don’t inter-link them. If you have a few feeder sites, just link them one-way to the main site. As long as the main site has lots of other links pointing to it, the few from your feeder sites shouldn’t be a problem at all. Only if you want to inter-link sites should you be concerned about IP addresses… and that becomes a huge amount of work.
See the answers to other questions about Article Underground here, here and here. (!)
