chrisandsarah - 4:15 pm on Apr 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks for all your info everyone.
it looks like we will just link to sites 2 - 20 from site 1 (our established site) and maybe drop the links back to site 1 until we have other links from sites not owned by us.

We didnt set up 20 sites for artificial PR and linking purposes at all. There is one reason why we didnt make 1 site with 20 different sections, and that is keyword domains. Our established site (site 1) is jam packed with content and gets great reviews. Listing accommodation on it is how the site pays for itself but then we started to lose positions to sites with keyword packed domains. Keyword domain names seem to have an advantage and so we decided it may be beneficial to build some smaller more relevant sites with keyword domains to stay in with the competition. so we have.
These keyword sites we have produced are not junk, but useful well designed sites with unique content.