Question about a strategy (Blog networks?)

[Thecolouredpenguin]

Hey everbody,

I was wondering if anybody could help this newbie out with an answer or two.

Lately I take some more time in studying my competition and really try to learn what they are doing.

I look at the backlinks and I see that one website is ranking on a high competition keyword. The website has a few high qualities backlinks which seem to be coming from sites which all look the same:

-Sites with multiple posts a day. Short articles averaging around 200 words.

-Comments closed.

-All articles are linking to other sites. Some are affiliate products, some are local businesses.

-PR around 3,4 and 5

Are these wat they call blog networks or is it something else? It seems to be working for a few competitors with relative low backlinks.

Does anybody has any experience with setting up something like this but on a much smaller scale, say like 5 sites for keywords with less competition? Updating the sites everyday with short but well written articles.

Thanks for reading and take care

[abbypeng]

It looks like blog networks.

[John Moore]

Yes, it's the strategy I use everyday to rank 100s of sites. You can't beat a contextual backlink on a high page rank page. It's the best you can get, that's why your competition is beating you, and you know the old saying "if you can't beat em, join em" so start building contextual backlinks now!