Creating a google-optimized blog network, tips and ideas!

[John Chase]

Hi Guys!

I'm about to set up a network of about 50 wordpress blogs.

I want to interlink them to pass on link juice.. and to make that work I have some ideas to separate the sites in all possible ways. I will for sure use different C-class IP-addresses. Tell me what you think about my ideas:

1. Not using google analytics or any other 3rd party visitor statistics. My thoughts here are that google will be able to find a pattern if all the sites use the same getclicky.com code. Does anyone know a good visitor statistics plugin? I'm trying the plugin 'wordpress.com stats' right now.

2. Use different whois data for the domains (like using friends and fake names).

3. Register the domain names on different dates.(might look suspicious if they are all registered the minute)

4. Register the domain names with different accounts or registrars. Ex use godaddy, name.com, moniker etc.. and not the same for all.

What do you guys think? Is 3 and 4 too paranoid?

Any other cool ideas about this is welcomed!

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by John Chase

Hi Guys!

I'm about to set up a network of about 50 wordpress blogs.

I want to interlink them to pass on link juice.. and to make that work I have some ideas to separate the sites in all possible ways. I will for sure use different C-class IP-addresses. Tell me what you think about my ideas:

1. Not using google analytics or any other 3rd party visitor statistics. My thoughts here are that google will be able to find a pattern if all the sites use the same getclicky.com code. Does anyone know a good visitor statistics plugin? I'm trying the plugin 'wordpress.com stats' right now.

2. Use different whois data for the domains (like using friends and fake names).

3. Register the domain names on different dates.(might look suspicious if they are all registered the minute)

4. Register the domain names with different accounts or registrars. Ex use godaddy, name.com, moniker etc.. and not the same for all.

What do you guys think? Is 3 and 4 too paranoid?

Any other cool ideas about this is welcomed!

If you are using this network to generate backlinks for your sites, there is no need for any type of analytics program on these sites. You do not need to track visitors to these sites. You just need the backlinks.

For the WhoIs data, you can use WhoIs Privacy. That should be sufficient.

I've never had to deal with #3. I do not buy brand new domains for my networks. I am usually looking for domains with some age and pagerank. I get a few here and a few there. Never 50 in one day.

I've always done #4 for all my sites just because I do not like to have all my domains with one registrar. That is more as a precaution of the registrar pissing me off than worrying about search engines though.

[timpears]

If you use bogus information to register the domains, you would be breaking the law. You would have to set up companies and register the domains in the name of the company.

[Matt.Lake]

Originally Posted by John Chase

I want to interlink them to pass on link juice.

Some of the more experienced guys will probably chip in on this topic but I just though I'd point out that this is probably the number 1 thing NOT to do with a blog network.

It would be worth doing a search on the forum for related posts... there have been quite a few good threads on here about blog networks recently.

[John Chase]

Thanks Mike!

I didn't specify, but all these blogs are money sites. So basically they will be linking to each other to rank better and make more money.

About whois privacy protection, there are some concerns:
1. Some believe google can see "behind" this since they are a registrar
2. It will be an easy pattern to spot if all domains are registered with whois privacy (the whois data will be pretty much identical for all my sites)
3. also privacy protections costs 7-10$ extra per year. That will be a pretty big sum if I have 1000 sites.

[John Chase]

Originally Posted by timpears

If you use bogus information to register the domains, you would be breaking the law. You would have to set up companies and register the domains in the name of the company.

Would of course be practically impossible to set up companies for each domain :/

How illegal is it to use bogus whois info? The sites themselves are not fishy in any way. Also I do not live in the US...

I did some googling and found this: "Reuters is reporting that the House of Representatives has recently passed the bill that would approve of penalties for those using fraudulent WHOIS records (H.R. 3632). Interestingly however, this does not directly outlaw it, instead extending the penalty by seven years for felonies performed using such fraudulent websites. The Senate has not yet passed their version (S.2242). The bill as originally written, however, focuses primarily on penalties for promoting counterfeit music, computer programs, and other media with identical labeling."

[John Chase]

Originally Posted by Matt.Lake

Some of the more experienced guys will probably chip in on this topic but I just though I'd point out that this is probably the number 1 thing NOT to do with a blog network.

It would be worth doing a search on the forum for related posts... there have been quite a few good threads on here about blog networks recently.

Thanks Matt. I've done some research here on the forum. It's important to not interlink the sites too much, and to have many sites so that the interlinking won't be obvious.

Lets say I spend 500$ per site to get backlinks. (That would result in a site having PR2-4 over time). To not have outbound links to other sites in the network would be a waste of lots of link juice/money.

[John Chase]

Any other ideas and tips would be great!