buckworks - 3:13 am on Sep 28, 2009 (gmt 0)

the quality of the links, the sources

A great deal would depend on quality. If you built satellite sites that were good enough to attract quality organic links of their own, you might escape being labelled a spammer.

But that still wouldn't make it a smart strategy compared to other things you could be doing.

If you're capable of creating such quality, don't waste it on satellite sites when you could put the content on your primary site to attract the links that would help it become a true authority.

The bottom line here is that the search engines are a lot less impressed by self-generated networks than they used to be.