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How many wordpress sites do you own, and why not use other web 2.0 in your network?

by Bruce99
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Hi,

I have been building a small network of mostly free sites. Getting each of them ranked can be tricky but I have come across discussions in here about not linking these sites like link wheels but just have them separately point to your money site.

I have heard that also most people favour WP blogs as their web 2.0 of choice and dont bother with other platforms.

My question to knowledgeable people who have built similar networks are whether they bother with diversifying the URL (ie wordpress, blogger, blog, squidoo etc) and if not why not.

I thought that if your whole network comes off one URL http://XXXXXXX dot wordpress dot com/ that not only is that risky in case they charge or close down, but that google would see this as too obvious and penalise any link power generated.

Do you use WP because of the good tools or plugins etc? Shouldn't at least every second web 2.0 property be something different than WP?

Do people look for web 2.0 properties that work of the WP platform (the CMS) or do you randomize the properties you have, to cloak your network?

Thanks Bruce
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  • Profile picture of the author Bruce99
    is the reason for WP because they have an easy auto post tool that you can load many weeks in advance? Is it easy to use?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Russ
    Wordpress is used because it's flexible. With the right plugins you can make a Wordpress site do just about anything.

    I don't really recommend building networks of sites if you're using the same hosting account for it. There are ways to pull it off but Google isn't stupid about checking to see if the network is related even if you do manage to use different hosts.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bruce99
      Originally Posted by Tim Russ View Post

      Wordpress is used because it's flexible. With the right plugins you can make a Wordpress site do just about anything.

      I don't really recommend building networks of sites if you're using the same hosting account for it. There are ways to pull it off but Google isn't stupid about checking to see if the network is related even if you do manage to use different hosts.
      Hi Tim, thanks for the reply. what do you mean about "same hosting account"

      I can create many different user accounts, one for each WP blog, but I was just concerned about them being on the same generic URL - wordpress dot com

      This is of course much worse if I was ever to link any like a link wheel, heaven forbid! So if I was going to have a few web 2 sites you suggest not to have them all wordpress? But I guess I can select web 2 properties that use the wordpress CMS as afterall that means the plug ins will work - like an autoposter? Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Russ
    When I saw the word network I assumed they were linked. My bad. It's fairly easy to check to see where sites are hosted. If they're all hosted on one server and linked it becomes rather obvious to the search engines that you're building a link network. That's not the case here apparently.

    Even so, if you have a collection of sites all hosted on one server and all linked to one site it can still be rather obvious to search engines.

    I love Wordpress. Almost every site I set up has Wordpress on it somewhere. I don't see any need to vary the CMS program you're using.
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    Hi Tim, you may have been right first of all. If I link any of the sites I have, before they go to the money site, do you think it will be ok (google police wise) as long as I dont link a wordpress site directly to another wordpress site, or that I have different user registrations for each wordpress blog I make?

    It seems to me that as long as things look separate that its ok. That is why I am not sure how so many IM people seem to have hundreds of wordpress sites in their stable - whether they are linked together or just point at whatever money site they want.

    "a collection of sites all hosted on one server" would mean that people should only have one wordpress blog, or that if they are going to link some together (in a ring or whatever) before they hit the money site, that the wordpress sites should at least be separated by one or two sites in between?

    Perhaps just mix it up with a few other web 2 properties that happen to use the wordpress cms might be a safer option?

    Does that make more sense?
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