Hi DP While looking at my Competition backlinks I came upon something odd or new to me. They have tons of 1 page sites url that point to their main site example here (check it out I am having a hard time explaining this) costumesandmagic[dot]com Lots of these pages have a pr3 or 4 How I don't know. Is this a new way to get tons of backlinks to your site? Has any one ever tried this? It looks real simple? Does this work? Will it help in the SERPs?(What a way to anchor links) It is working for them any way to improve on it? Is is legal?(IS this Black Hat) What are your Thoughts? Butterflies Forever Sami
I typed: link:costumesandmagic[dot]com (but I replaced the word dot with a dot) And I get no results.
It isn't really new. And it does work. The problem is that it takes a hugh amount of time and a lot of money to do it.
Cross linking your own sites to gain PR is a big no no with google - it's considered a link farm and has been around for years. Google used to ignore these links, but now they are giving penalties if they discover it. Google is a registrar, so they can check whois for who owns the sites, check ip range (sites with the same host are automatically considered related), and of course, if you run adsense on each of the cross linked sites, they will know it's the same owner. It used to work, but it's a good way to get in trouble these days as google improves their algorithm. Google's algorithm is based on "unbiased votes" for a site - and an owner voting for themselves with a bunch of sites is viewed as trying to manipulate their SERPS. It's not illegal, but it's a good way to get a penalty.
I don't think they are cross linking are they just buying a new url and pointing all links to the main site. Any other thoughts? Best Sami
I don't think they're cross-linking. But to do it successfuly, you have to be careful to hide your ownership of the small sites by putting them on different servers, etc. As I said before, it can work, but it takes a lot of time and money.
That's cross linking, not reciprocal linking. Buying a bunch of domains and putting a link towards another site you own will get you in trouble. Google expects you to put rel="nofollow" on those links. Use different company names to registrar the domains, buy different class "c" hosting for the sites, make sure all links are three-way, don't run adsense or anything else that will give the link farm away - and you might get away with it. A link from a new domain isn't going to do any good, you need to develop backlinks for those sites too - a lot of work ... and if google figures it out (either on their own or someone else reports you) you just might wind up with a whole bunch of banned domains.
Some people are doing this, at least on a small scale. You can also use free blogs and places like Squidoo to do it. But as mjewel pointed out, you have to be careful to disquise what your doing.
Aaron Wall says even a lot of links coming from the same domain registrar or whois protection domains will raise a flag with google. What do you think a bunch of one page sites pointing to a single site looks like to google? So you create a page on a free host. A link from that site is worth absolutely nothing without other sites linking to it. So then you need to go out and build links to that one page site, which will probably have very little weight because you aren't going to find quality sites that want to link to a single page site with one outgoing link - why not put the time into building links to your main site in the first place? - or better yet, build a great site that people will want to link to naturally? If you want to risk a short cut, buy links from sites already ranking well for the keyword you are targeting. Quick link schemes are going to hurt you in the long run. When I start a new site, I don't even plan on it ranking for competitive keywords for at least 6 months to a year. Quality links from relevant sites are really what is going to help you. If you just what a bunch of low quality links, pay someone $20 to submit you site to 500 free crap directories.
Hi, I'm still new only been at this a few mo now. Just looking at what my Competition is doing to get 1st 2nd place keyword ranks on term I am listed about 8400th on. Just trying to come up with ideas here that all. Thanks Sami
Domain age place an important part in the google algorithm. It's going to be hard to rank for any highly competitive keyword for 6 months to a year (maybe longer). Just give it time and build quality links - you don't want to hurt your site by trying to take risky shortcuts. High rankings are a process, not an event. You'll have better luck on less competitive keywords with a newer site while you're building "trust" and aging your domain.