The course of action to move my macro site to some mini sites- justin if you can help

[goldjake1788]

We have a site that we want to break up into mini sites but keep the old site for the major brands. Empirecovers.com is the major and we want to break it off into Empire Truck Covers and Empire Boat covers. What I am thinking of doing is linking from the home to Empiretruckcovers.com instead of a mini page on the site and 301 redirect the mini page to empiretruckcovers.com. Than (there wont be duplicate content) making a small page for truck covers on empire just so people do not get confused. Is this the best way to go or what do you suggest? We are doing this because I feel there is seo value in having mini sites and also the user experience will be cleaner and people will trust it a lot more than inside a big site. The other problem is I have some great rankings on the pages so I want to do it so there is as little damage as possible. I guess once I start I will do all the free directories, yahoo directory and try to get links as fast as I can. Any suggestions would be great. I am going to do a/b testing to see if my adwords convert better on mini site or on the big site for certain keywords too

[EGOL]

You have a large, established site with great rankings and you want to tear it down and use the pieces to build a few hotdog stands?.... and you think that visitors are going to trust the hotdog stands more than they trust the large comapny who has expertise in covers of all kinds?

Lots of people would bet against your strategy.

[blu42media]

I agree with EGOL on this one... keep it all under one roof.  If you're looking for SEO value on the mini sites, why not turn them into landers that point back to your main site instead of the other way around?