I own ten websites with domain names related to roughly the same topic. What would SEO-wise be the best way to utilize these. My current thinking is this: Have 2 or 3 premium sites with the best content for monetization. Use 5 sites as article sites with some static pages filled with articles that link to one of the premium sites. Use the remaning sites for blogs about a related subject and link frequently to one or more of the premium sites. Perhaps with sitewide blogroll links as well. Could you think of a better way to use the ten domains? (and could this in any way be considered no-go black hat tactics?).
Pretty much any SEO is black hat, if you listen to google.... Sounds like a good plan for them mate, have a good read up about using no-follow tags to direct link power to your main sites, and that should work nicely. DD
I would build them so that one site would be my "authority" site. Not linking to the others, but having the same subject, than, point the other sites to it. Not sure if it would work, but thats what I would do.
It wouldn't be to hard for Google to realize your proposed "link scheme", I would hope if you plan on doing this your using a different registrar and hosting company per website. Also, another over looked way Google can find out is by the sites you register and verify in your Google Webmasters Central account.
Thanks for the input, guys. I have thought about this some more and will go with one general authority site and a number of sites specialised in different subjects, organised and branded as a network. All out in the open that these sites are part of the same network. It might hurt the effect of the linking but at least it won't be considered black hat, if I am open about what I am doing.