Setting up 10 different free blogs at various blog sites and promoting your main site, is that a reason to become penalized ? These blogs have not been setup at a short period of time, rather several months. Looking for suggestions ...
Well, other than the fact that you have 11 blogs to promote now instead of 1 ... it's not going to kill you. But, if you start a free blog and link back to your main site with all the anchor text you want, Google isn't going to pay much attention. Until all of your new satellite blogs get their share of promotion, they won't have earned any respect from Google, so they won't be able to pass much love on to your site.
I agree with Forrest, it takes time to promote those other 10 blogs to make it so they have any link value at all
Alright, im very confident now that blogs don't hurt the main site at all, from reading many of your comments. It's probably right that a new blog doesn't give back much love to the main site and to really make a good blog out of all the other competitors blogs you have to put alot of energy into the project.
No you wouldn't! If i can only manage as many blogs as i can, i will! Its an effective way to gain backlinks and drive traffics to website!
Google is much more smarter than we people! you must not do this. Just put the quality content. You will get everything what you want..It will take some time.
As long as they have unique content and are on unique IP's I don't see any reason why your main site would get penalized.