Network of sites

How to interlink?

[johnnie]

I am in the process of erecting a little network of websites around a single topic. On order t make the most out of the 'free' links I can get doing this, I am thinking about th most effective linking strategy. First of all, I want to divide my network into 'triangles'. Within and between these triangles, I will be able to optimize linking so that most of the links are one-way. However, several issues come to mind:

- Will search engines look at the whois-information of the specific domains? If they find out I own all these domains, will that lower the weight of the links?

- What about IP? For a large amount of sites, a reseller account appears to be the way to go. Do I need more than one IP because search engines lower the weight of a link to a site of the same IP? Should I consider buying an additional IP address?

I know these issues may have been discussed before, but search engine policies can be quite volatile. So I was hoping somebody could shed some 'recent' light on my questions.

Thank you!

[anallawalla]

Get each of your network sites appear to be owned by different relatives or pets and host each on a different hosting provider. Each site should have a different look and feel - different templates. Nurture each site separately, i.e. get backlinks for each. Unless these sites get some trust, their links won't amount to much.

If you own all the sites and host them all on one server, you won't get much benefit given all this effort. IOW, there isn't any magic silver bullet.

[gasyoun]

Doen't interlink at all. Google has been banning it for last 2 months now.

[trader]

Get each of your network sites appear to be owned by different relatives or pets and host each on a different hosting provider.

I assume that is a joke, or at least I hope it is.

[Robert Charlton]

Get each of your network sites appear to be owned by different relatives or pets and host each on a different hosting provider.

I assume that is a joke, or at least I hope it is.

Actually, it's one of the best answers I've seen on the topic.

Definitely, nurture independent backlinks for each.

If you own all the sites and host them all on one server, you won't get much benefit given all this effort.

I've observed that it varies by market area and how competitive things in your market area are. In some cases, only one of the sites will even appear in the index... all the others will drop out (talking about Google here).

Even if a market area (or a search) isn't affected by this now, on Google it's likely that as the number of pages grows your market area eventually will be affected. On MSN, this might work wonderfully until they get it figured out.

[trader]

Actually, it's one of the best answers I've seen on the topic.

hmmm.... falsely registering domains under other peoples names and using your dog and cats name violates the rules and the name could even be taken away for doing that if discovered. Such violations may be reported (by a competitor or enemy) to the registrar.

[jimbeetle]

Nurture each site separately, i.e. get backlinks for each. Unless these sites get some trust, their links won't amount to much.

Definitely, nurture independent backlinks for each.

Those are the parts of anallawalla's and RC's responses to focus on. Without that in place the rest doesn't really matter.