grant - 10:22 pm on Aug 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

For those interested, I thought I'd share the results to date. (I find this fascinating).

First, Martinibuster's comments were right on.

What I found is that search engines, especially Google, are fantastic at identifying link clusters.

Having access to hundreds of domains, many of which are on unique class c addresss with different whois info, you can only leverage that so many times before you are viewed as a link cluster.

To date, the results on the search engines do show all my sites, but several poorly optimized sites (virtually no backlinks, onsite factors are ok at best) remain high. My interpretation is that Google sees the many sites I have as belonging to one link cluster, and wants to serve results from numerous clusters.

I could be wrong, however, this is an ongoing experiment and I thought I'd share the recent update for those who'd like to know the results.