Chef_Brian - 1:01 pm on Aug 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

Net Wizard,

You bring up a good point, that in turn when you truely "work" on a project enjoy the subject and play "fair" you will be better off in the end.

Ok, so here is my question:

Where does one draw the line with "spam" .... can someone give me a definition of what spam is? Sure I have seen the work of someone that links many domains together usually resulting in a bunch of pagerank 5 sites within the same field or theme.

Right now I have two sites:

My first "real" site is my passion site and I have worked tiredlessly for about 13 months and now I am starting to see some income (figure a nice car payment). Like many webmasters I have thought time and time again of starting new web projects but figured I needed to grow my passion site to a level where it would begin to build itself. Well that is now happening and about two months ago I started with my new "Type A Site" I choose to create a poster store simly because I really love art, and can learn a great deal by creating such a website. Also the pay structure is good.

Now I like to play fair, I feel that the through away method is not for me. My first passion site should not get in any real trouble, it is only one site no major linking between other domains, ect ... Just a lot of hard work.

However, it is tempting to try to leverage some of the pagerank from my fist site to the new art poster site. Last night I submitted to yahoo Uk (good bye $200) as well as ODP. Then I quickly began a link program to generate links from other sites to my new art site. All these things are fine and dandy and "safe". My plan is to link each page from my passion site to the art poster site once the poster site has about 100 + incoming links from other sites. I have discussed this idea within some of the members on webmasterworld including one forum mod and most feel is is plenty safe. With only two domains and plenty of outside links to both sites.

Net Wizard, would I be "spaming" if you ran into my new poster site in 3 months to find a pagerank 5 or 6 and lots of links from one other site?

Thanks for the insight, as mentioned I like to play safe ;-)

Chef Brian