Putting up a new site just to link to my main site

Is it worth the time?

[J_Mac]

Lets say I have a new site that sells blue widgets, pink widgets, red widgets, etc. under brandname.com. And I am wanting to increase my page rank to this site. Is it worth while and legal "in google's eyes" to do the following.

1. Acquire domains such as bluewidgets.ws, pinkwidgets.org, and redwidgets.net or whatever available extensions there are.

2. Build a simple site with a few pages of rich content for those keywords. Kind of informative type stuff that derives from the content of the original brandname.com site but reworked some.

3. Then using text links and such to promote the brandname.com site such as: "To purchase blue widgets with free delivery click here." or something like that.

Also which domain is better: bluewidgets.org or blue-widgets.org and lastly does the extension matter?

[ogletree]

It is only a good idea if you can get links to the new sites from other sties that won't link to the original site as far as pr is concerned. You cannot produce your own PR you need to get it from somebody else. You would have to get those sites PR and then point them to yourself. If you can get those people to link to the original site that is the most effective way to go. If you buy a site that has PR already then you could do it. Of course that is a whole other discussion.

It could be a good idea to help you with anchor text. You can create several sites and get them up to a PR4 and put anchor text on them.

Google does not like for people to do this so I would not go around announcing what your sites are.

It is better to have the dash between words on a domain name. That way you get credit for them when your site is linked to on other sites.

Nobody really knows if the ext means anything. There are many theories. I think it does not.

[J_Mac]

Thanks ogletree. You've been a big help.

[layer8]

Best Bet - to have one site in the middle not recieving any links exept from your other sites, build a few sites that link to this and direct all your inbound links to the other sites that sit around your first site.

If you have only 3 sites and one in the midle you have more chance of keeping your position, however you still need the get PR from other sites in the first place.