Guerilla Promotion Question

Promotion

[omkar]

Colleagues,
Over the past few months, I have been making an aggressive attempt to establish a quality links base. During my interactions with several other webmasters, I discovered that most webmasters (working on low marketing budgets) manage several websites. All these sites appear to be similar in content--with only minor differences, if any. A vast majority have unusually long domain names like debt-consolidation-credit-cards...Some webmasters claim to be running over 150 websites.

I was wondering if this is some form of guerilla marketing or SEO strategy that I am not aware of. I manage 4 websites, but they are completely different sites with very different content.

I would appreciate your inputs on this issue.

Thanks in advance,
Omkar

[pleeker]

All these sites appear to be similar in content--with only minor differences, if any. A vast majority have unusually long domain names like debt-consolidation-credit-cards...Some webmasters claim to be running over 150 websites.

I was wondering if this is some form of guerilla marketing or SEO strategy that I am not aware of.

It's a pretty common form of SEO that most search engines would refer to as "spam." And in many markets/industries, it can be quite successful.

[SEOMike]

It works well if you use DIFFERENT content on different servers. Then interlink them WISELY and... BOOM... you have two sites linking to each other in the same topic and you can control both. Then, get all kinds of link in to the sites (preferably from within the niche) and viola! Your positions improve (if you've done the REST of your SEO too.)