Holding pages used as link sites.

[charv]

Hi all,
I have some spare domain names and thought it may be good to use them as a kind of directory listing for my sites. Creating some more keyphrased backlinks in the process. I'm talking about under 10 domains at this stage but is this recommended practice?

Anything I need to be careful of? I obviously don't want to be creating negative backlinks or offend Google in any way!

They are pretty much the same page but with slightly diferent text so they dont appear as obvious duplicates. I'm sure I have seen sites using exactly the same pages for this purpose.

These are 2 of the domains so you se what I mean:
www.sonicpool.net and www.noisefest.net

If this is ok then is it going to far to pull these links from an external source/database?

Thanks in advance of any replies, quality forum!

[satya-tlb]

Well, since those domain names are new and without having any link popularity themselves, what benefit will they give by linking to your site?
Anways, just check to see if they have same c-class IPs (avoid it if they are same class-c).
Also go for a wheel and spokes approach, i.e. all those sites link to your site but don't interlink between themselves.

Best Wishes

[charv]

Thankyou for the super fast reply!
Google is aware of these domains but they have no backlinks yet - so the outer rim of the wheel is broken. Wheel and spokes makes perfect sense. I'll go and join the dots!
I'm also reading this post http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/4609.htm about c-class IP's .. scary but opposing views.
Cheers

[ravnic]

Hey yea it is a good idea, But since this is a domain that has no ranking then how is this going to help you>

Maybe if you create some information pages and scatter these links through out then get some links from other site that rank pretty high. Then you might have a good start. Remember this is going to take a few months if not 6 to really see if it is working.

[AcmeSEO]

Originally Posted by charv

...is this recommended practice?

Anything I need to be careful of? I obviously don't want to be creating negative backlinks or offend Google in any way!

If she don't like it she will try and figure out your intent before she bans you. If she judges that your intent is in conflict with her guidelines then you will get penalized. If she decides to ban you watch out, she will ban everything you've got!

I would recommend against it.

Rather, invest that time in to implementing some form of fresh content on your site. This tactic is not risky and will surely get you a lot more bang for the minute than some questionable parked domain back link scheme. Linking schemes are risky. Fresh content will take you places!

Namaste!

Robert

[deluxar]

I was thinking the exact same approach to boost up my main site's ranking last night. And today I see it, it helps a lot. There are good things of this approach, but it definitely takes time to get backward links for that site. Spending time on your main website maybe more efficient.

deluxar

[benwalsh]

it works for us
we have a main site http://www.tubal-reversal.net/ that has a few related sites some are linked from main site, and some are not, they all show up in our backlinks even those with low PR.

[garris]

I have a site that sells medical supplies. It keeps growing on me and I was thinking of breaking it up into different urls - one for each category - with the navigation bar on the main site sending the customer to the different satelite website. I planned on putting the same Navigation bar on each site so that, wherever they are, they can go to whichever category they want.
Now I'm wondering if that will penalize me with all this discussion of linking your sites together if they have the same c-class.

Any suggestions?

Dale

[geoffreygag]

Dale - I have a site that sells medical supplies.

Becareful with your idea. I lost a top posiiton with Google, but maintained it Yahoo. Search term "negocio"

[garris]

Hmmmm. scary.
I wonder if there's any value to breaking up the categories into different subwebs under the main url. For the life of me, I've never been able to figure out what someone would use subwebs for. Maybe this is a good example.

I'm trying to accomplish three things:
1) I fear that having too many different products will dilute the keyword densities for each - kinda like having a drugstore instead of having each url concentrated on one type of product.
2) to reduce time in maintanence, specifically uploading. (I use FrontPage)
And, 3) I THOUGHT that linking back and forth would help with rankings. Oh well.

[satya-tlb]

they all show up in our backlinks even those with low PR

Remember, google these days shows crappy backlinks, some fear just to send the webmasters into a tizzy.

Satya

[satya-tlb]

I was thinking of breaking it up into different urls

I hope, by subwebs you mean, sub-domains. Go for it, if it helps the users. No problem, if you link the main domain to all the sub-domains and all the sub-domains link back to the main domain. Think of About.com or Ittoolbox.com

Best Wishes

Satya

[MathsIsFun]

garris, without seeing your site, if maintaining your product pages is a chore, you could try an ecommerce solution.

I use oscommerce (example only - there are plenty out there), which is open-source and uses php. Googlebot and MSNbot index it, but other spiders don't like the dynamic content, but I am thinking of supplementing it with several html pages that link into the index to satisfy the other bots.

There are other ecommerce solutions out there for growing sites such as yours (you lucky thing!), and that way you can have a large and content-rich site, that people tell me Google likes, and keep your maintenance levels down