eljefe3 - 11:39 am on Mar 5, 2001 (gmt 0)

absolute,

Welcome to Webmasterworld and thanks for posting.

>>would either option trick the search engines into thinking that there are 5 similar webzines on the net (as they have seperate IPs).

I don't think you're going to trick the SE's with this strategy. What I would suggest is make each different domain have enough unique content to stand on it's own merits. Cross link the domains and you should be on track to accomplishing what you want with the 5 domains.

Search engines are pretty good about filtering out duplicate content, so unique content rich and keyword rich domains pointing to your main webzine is necessary if you want to use all 5 domains as "doorway domains".