Stupid Question

[SladeK]

This may seem like a stupid question, but is it "legit" to have your own network of niche specific blogs and authority sites existing solely to provide relevant and powerful links to your money sites?

[mainstreetcm]

I've never understood why this would be so bad... I mean don't all the major media conglomerates own thousands of sites, all pointing to the same "Network." I mean doesn't Viacom own all of the CNET properties and I'm sure the provide links to thousands of niche blogs/sites?

[hawaiidave]

The reason this looks bad in the eyes of Google (because that's really who we are talking about) is that when you create your own network, you are trying to artificially create "authority." People create blog/link farms all the time though, but it is a pain. On top of it being a pain, it is costly as you have to have multiple ips which translates to lots of money spent on hosting.

[FrankBowman]

BTW, this only works if each site on the network has its own IP address. A link from a site that has the same IP as the site its linking to isn't worth much at all.

Good luck

[evertd]

Sure, it's a powerful way to go if you do it right. Just search for "blog farms" and you'll get lots of information.

There are also tons of sites where you can build free blogs that you can use for the same kind of thing and you'll have IP diversity simply because you'll have blogs on a variety of sites. The downside of this is that since you don't own the sites, the owner could take your blog down at any time.

[SladeK]

Interesting. Appreciate the replies.

I have just noticed in my micro niche site building that quite a few people have back links from poorly put together blogs that have a link hidden in the footer or in a blog roll; and I was just curious as to how effective that was. Definitely looked like a sloppy way to acquire back links, but I was hoping to scale it up in terms of quality and build each blog up over the course of a few months before I began linking to my money site.

Anyway, assuming I don't go the route of building blogger/wp blogs, in order for my blogs to carry any weight through my own hosting would be to ensure they had different IPs? IE: I would have to have a different hosting account for each blog?

[hawaiidave]

Links from junk sites will do you no good. Just concentrate on high quality over quantity.

If you aren't going to go for a typical linkwheel style off of the free platforms, then you need to get multiple IPs through a company like seohosting (a Hostgator company) where you can buy multiple class c IPs. When you go into your individual cpanels there is a dropdown to choose from available IPs and you'd want to get them as diverse as possible across how ever many IPs you were using. It is a lot of money and proper planning to do this effectively - some good linking to authority sites might work better. If you want to still do it though - best of luck!

[jasonmorgan]

This may seem like a stupid question, but is it "legit" to have your own network of niche specific blogs and authority sites existing solely to provide relevant and powerful links to your money sites?

Google doesn't like it.

Yes, it does work.

Yes, I do it myself.

I think it's the smart long-term.

[jason_simpson]

Originally Posted by SladeK

This may seem like a stupid question, but is it "legit" to have your own network of niche specific blogs and authority sites existing solely to provide relevant and powerful links to your money sites?

I think its a good way to build backlinks. Many big business do the same by having a number of sites and all pointing out to the one main site.

[SladeK]

Alright, appreciate all the info; I have a pretty good idea as to what I am going to do now.

I have one more question that is kind of off the op topic, but figured I would ask here instead of starting another thread.

I have also noticed in researching competition that there are a lot of back links that come from "resource" sections of web sites. Are these obtained via link exchanges?

[bgmacaw]

Google doesn't have a problem with it as long as you aren't doing it entirely for SEO purposes.

For example, take a look at icanhascheezburger.com. Go to the site, scroll down to the bottom, see all those tasty links to their other properties. That's how you turn a new domain into an authority site overnight.

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[tedzmaniac]

yeah they should consider about it