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Is this idea as bad as my last one?

by cbgaloot
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Build one very clean blog, lots of good useful content, regularly updated, babied and attended to with care. Totally white hat.


Then

Several black/gray hat blogs in the same niche probably auto blogs to feed traffic and Page rank to the clean blogs.

That's the basic plan.

Then

Rinse and repeat many times with as many "good guy" blogs as you can manage.



Any thoughts?
#bad #idea
  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    My thought is why waste your time with black/grey hat? If you build a clean blog with great content, why not have that content repurposed and used on article directories and web 2.0 properties to link back to your original blog? If you go black/grey hat doing this and something changes in the future it could change your entire income and traffic to the white hat blog.

    Why not put in the work or outsource the work to do it properly now so that it will make you money for years to come?

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    • Profile picture of the author cbgaloot
      Originally Posted by Benjamin Ehinger View Post

      My thought is why waste your time with black/grey hat? If you build a clean blog with great content, why not have that content repurposed and used on article directories and web 2.0 properties to link back to your original blog? If you go black/grey hat doing this and something changes in the future it could change your entire income and traffic to the white hat blog.

      Why not put in the work or outsource the work to do it properly now so that it will make you money for years to come?

      Benjamin Ehinger
      The Black/gray hat sites are just to give a start to Page rank, and some oncoming traffic.

      Year ago you could build a good keyword rich page and expect to get some traffic to it. I've made a lot of pocket change doing exactly that. The only incoming links being from my own already listed sites. Today off page factors mean you can no longer do that and expect to be in the first 100 pages of Google.

      Then again, how to work the web the way it is today is what I came here to learn. If there is a better way I'm all ears. (Shhh don't tell anyone. But that's why I started this thread. )
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  • Profile picture of the author PhoebeSmellyCat
    Originally Posted by cbgaloot View Post

    Build one very clean blog, lots of good useful content, regularly updated, babied and attended to with care. Totally white hat.


    Then

    Several black/gray hat blogs in the same niche probably auto blogs to feed traffic and Page rank to the clean blogs.

    Any thoughts?
    I'm just wondering what the effect of "dirty" backlinks to a "clean" blog would have on your good blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbgaloot
      Originally Posted by PhoebeSmellyCat View Post

      I'm just wondering what the effect of "dirty" backlinks to a "clean" blog would have on your good blog.
      I believe the general consensus is that if BAD or Black hat links would cause Google to ban you or some other bad thing.

      Then we'd all be building black hat sites to link to our competitors.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by PhoebeSmellyCat View Post

      I'm just wondering what the effect of "dirty" backlinks to a "clean" blog would have on your good blog.
      It's the second-worst fate --> zero effect. In other words, if the links are identified as 'dirty', they'll simply get ignored.

      Which makes the whole effort wasted.

      Now, if the powers that be connect the dots and figure out that both the clean blog and the dirty ones are controlled by the same entity, they're hosed...
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