My extra domains have great keywords in them, but are very geo-specific (city name in all) I want to drive more traffic to my business site? What should I do with the extra (5) domains? I have put 2 wordpress blogs on two of them and they are listed high in Google (content + domain name). I was just going to "sponsor" the blogs with my company logo? Any better things to do to drive traffic? Thanks guys and happy Saturday!
I have all the sites hosted on a go daddy account? Does this give them separate IP's? If not, what's the process to take? Thanks!
Get Free Blog Accounts, search google for "Free Shell Account" create one or two page sites, put content point your domains to them using CNAME entry in your DNS record Do social bookmarking for these domains and pages, get them indexed in google, yahoo etc. Link back to your main site
If you have a few (5-10) relevant domains and want to take the time to build them out with their own unique content then you can host them at the same web host, even on the same IP... and interlink them without fear of penalty. However, if you have lots of domains that you are considering interlinking, I would think long and hard about doing so. The mere fact that you're here asking what to do says you're inexperienced at this. The fact that they are all probably registered under your name with at least some common piece of registrant info like email, phone #, address, etc. is ,however, going to make it impossible to hide the fact that you own them all. Putting them on separate IPs... even hosting them on different web hosts... is not going to hide that fact. Google is a registrar. They have access to exactly who owns every domain on the web, even if you opted for private registration. Putting them on separate IPs at separate web hosts might allow you to avoid detection for a while since the engines would be stupid to check who owns the source and target domains of EVERY link on the web when they index a page. It's just too costly from a computational cost perspective. But the minute some competitor reports you to Google for building a link farm, if they manually review your site then they will likely discover that you own all of those sites and slap a big fat penalty on your sites. If you can build a few sites that are relevant to one another and the visitors to one of them would benefit by you placing a link on it to the other site then have at it. But if you are going to try to do it on a larger scale, I would advise against it. You are only asking for trouble, especially if you are inexperienced at doing so.
@Canonical: Agreed on all points accept this one. No they don't know if you registered by proxy (private registration). If you have 5-10 domains, you can still think of developing them by putting useful content.