Backlink Campaign - domains with PR zero?

Mike, thanks for all your sterling advice and tips. Much appreciated.

I plan to get into social media marketing much more in the future. I have acquired a few books and PDF's on the topic. I am reading a PDF tonight on using pinterest for website marketing.

No success to date, for me, with twitter (despite following many hundreds and posting a few comments). I really need to learn more about how to successfully deploy it. As you say, and I can imagine it so - that there will be more chance of getting back links via dialog in social media.

I am going to give your 2 or 3 question survey some thought this week....see if I can develop it for this niche.

Oh that's no problem, I haven't done anything exceptional here. Beyond that, I can't speak for anyone else but to me, because of your niche, it's a semi-fun problem or task at hand - and as you can understand given my primary niche, your situation is a similar "game" to the one I have to play - so that's always fun.

Besides, you've been exceptionally polite and your communication has been polite, clear and concise - 3 qualities that aren't often seen here and I'm surprised this thread has remained sterile of any of the garbage posts/advice that can normally be slung around.

Lastly, I'm a part of the Alt community in Cleveland, so... you're kind of a special case to me.

Yeah, one page domains are pretty much the devil to me.

We are a bit different in how we might have to approach network sites, particularly different from link sellers, but even more than that - our niche selection is very suspicious. There's a lot of shady operators in our markets and because of that our network sites require a little more effort than in other markets. Require might be a strong word... but for me it's a requirement. My goal is always to be able to pass a manual review. I don't know that I actually would, but that is the vision that directs my efforts.

How many sites I would build is a tricky question because honestly I may never really "Stop" developing additional link assets over time. For me, it's less the case of building 20 sites and walking away and more of a long term mindset.

I might start off hot and heavy and build out 10 or 12 sites as quickly as possible just to lay a foundation - but after that I would take on a 'grinder' mindset and grind out another domain or two a month until the end of time.

They really don't take much time to create when you have just one topic to cover - the most difficult part for me was finding new ways to approach the same topic or finding new concepts for sites overall. You don't want everything to be a blog and truthfully very few of my network sites are blogs. There's a lot of business sites (yes, even in P/E), social resource sites, etc..

One tip that I've never really shared is to just surf the forums in that niche and look at what people link to. If they are linking to it, assuming that it is an honest link, then whatever that thing is holds some value to the community - and that's really how you want your network sites to be viewed. You want them to look like they could mean something to someone... I'm not saying to spend forever building this extremely big, helpful site - but cover the basics and do put in a little effort.

When we start talking about how to setup a link network, there are going to be a variety of opinions on the topic. Mike F. and Mike A. will likely have different opinions from each other and from me. It's like describing the taste of a hardboiled egg. Everyone will have their own way of thinking about it...

This is about where I would stop for now to avoid any 1AM fighting. I'll let someone else jump in if they are so inclined.