link duplication between hundreds of sites

[lindajames]

Hi,

I have an idea to promote my site, and i've been told it will work. Basically, i have about 500 sites, 90% of them are free host sites e.g. [myname.providername.com,...] basically, what i want to do is create an index.html file in all them containing about 10 links to my main site with the keyword.

I just wanted to hear what others thought about this idea.

Cheers
Linda

[fathom]

Will it be effective - yes - for a time.

Assuming these are as you indicated sub-domains all on one server, the likelihood that this crosslinking strategy will get you penalized is fair to good.

Different servers with different IP octual blocks is the way to go for this.

Cheaper strategy... great return... disposal domains... re-deploy..., or

Higher cost... great return... long lifespan. :)

[kelly_boyce]

what? so if i get lets say 50 free sites from 50 independent free hosts e.g. lycos, virtualave, etc. and have them all link to my site like this:

<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord</a>

will this boost my ranking for that particular KeyWord? if thats the case then, can i have lets say 10 links to my site from each site. e.g.

<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord1</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord2</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord3</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord4</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord5</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord6</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord7</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord8</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord9</a><br>
<a href="http://mysite.com">KeyWord10</a><br>

thanx in advance

[Spogum]

My experience (brief) and reading into this suggest that you'd get "some" boost from the links coming from all those sites. This may or may not be enhanced by multiple links from the same site (we're discussing this in a different thread.) However--Google, as I understand it--tends to give very little "weight" to sites that are thematically unrelated to your home site. Thus, to make this really work, you'd need to post relevant content, tags, etc. on each of the free sites.

[surfgatinho]

From what I gather if your intent is sneaky then sooner or later the SEs will catch up with you and you will be penalised.
At present and to the most part if your site deserves to do well it will.

At the end of the day is it worth trying to out fox the SEs at the risk of being penalised?

[Spogum]

I don't know if the issue is so much whether you're being "sneaky" or not (assuming that has real meaning in this context.) Many major players, including Google, have multiple websites for different brands, purposes, etc.

It's whether you're willing to go to the time and expense of creating separate sites on separate host servers with different WHOIS records, and using legitimate but DIFFERENT content. On an ethical level, this would be like asking "Is it OK for me to print two separate brochures for my business, with each one having a different marketing slant on my services?"

[dougmcc1]

different WHOIS records

What about private ones?

If I pay extra to make all my WHIOS records private, can a SE still tell I'm the owner of all of them?

[1milehgh80210]

From my experience (what it's worth), I would'nt worry too much about -theme- or whois records. All subdomains on the same server might be a different story..