Comments on: Sunday Afternoon Thoughts http://www.elliotsblog.com/sunday-afternoon-thoughts-0381 Domain blog featuring domain investing strategy, domain valuation, and domain development commentary from Elliot Silver, founder of Top Notch Domains, LLC. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: SJ http://www.elliotsblog.com/sunday-afternoon-thoughts-0381#comment-16328 SJ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:08:27 +0000 http://www.elliotsblog.com/?p=4132#comment-16328 Regarding link networks/building small sites to link to a main site. You should be aware that if you're not building links to the small sites, it's not going to do much difference in terms of rankings for the main site, as there is simply very little "link value" to pass on. Also, doing this with 1-2 sites on 2-3 different platforms would probably be okay. But if you're doing it on any larger scale than that, I'd recommend you to do some serious research into link networks, or you're very likely to make something with little to almost no effect, or only short-term effect, but with long-term risks. To make a long explanation short - you pretty much have to eliminate every possible footprint that could be used to identify the relationship among the sites in the link network. And be aware of the fact that you'd be dabbling in something that is not seen well upon by search engines. Regarding link networks/building small sites to link to a main site. You should be aware that if you’re not building links to the small sites, it’s not going to do much difference in terms of rankings for the main site, as there is simply very little “link value” to pass on.

Also, doing this with 1-2 sites on 2-3 different platforms would probably be okay. But if you’re doing it on any larger scale than that, I’d recommend you to do some serious research into link networks, or you’re very likely to make something with little to almost no effect, or only short-term effect, but with long-term risks.

To make a long explanation short – you pretty much have to eliminate every possible footprint that could be used to identify the relationship among the sites in the link network. And be aware of the fact that you’d be dabbling in something that is not seen well upon by search engines.

]]> By: Sean http://www.elliotsblog.com/sunday-afternoon-thoughts-0381#comment-16316 Sean Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:14:09 +0000 http://www.elliotsblog.com/?p=4132#comment-16316 Will be interesting to see the outcome of the SEO experiement. I was always under the impression that somewhere in the google algorithm is the ability to take domain ownership into account. Therefore even if sites were to be on different servers google can still pick up non-organic linking - not neccessarily penalising but just neutralising the benefits attained Will be interesting to see the outcome of the SEO experiement. I was always under the impression that somewhere in the google algorithm is the ability to take domain ownership into account. Therefore even if sites were to be on different servers google can still pick up non-organic linking – not neccessarily penalising but just neutralising the benefits attained

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