Is it worth making a new site for the link??

[69thelememt]

Hi am currently going throught the motion doing the SEO for my site. I've noticed that the way one of my competitors works is to link itself to and from other relevent sites its made and hosts itself. These site are only for the relevent backlinks and themselves only a landing page for the main site.
My question is, is it worth the £20 a year to do tihs methord?? £100 a year for five site??? what kind of results would you get in a non to highly contested field??

 

[nitro23456]

Unlikely to make the difference to warrant the money. Unless of course they are pages with decent PR. Its a bit of a catch 22 really, as you would need to invest in getting the 'new' sites to a point where they are worthy of a link.

You would be better spending time posting on related blogs with decent PR using decent anchor text.

 

[paulus]

I agree with nitro. In addition, if Google et al identify you as the owner of all the interlinked sites, my guess is that those links won't be worth as much as if they came from an independent source.

 

[terryuk]

If you have enough resources to SEO all five sites then quite possibly, but 5 sites just sitting there (need to be indexed) aren't too helpful.

 

[Spock]

And then you need to build links to those sites to make them credible, so you are best off spending the time creating content on your main site.

 

[Ali-v-8]

There is a more cleverer and better way.
Create sub domains for the areas that you wish to cover. Then link these back to your main pages. The sub domains can be put on seperate servers giving good relevant links back to your website.

 

[Normansmith]

I would just make yourself a link wheel of relevant, high page rank blogs/sites and use good anchor text words to link back to your site.Particularly if it is in a low competition area.10-12 good sites should help.

 

[nitro23456]

 

[69thelememt]

cheers guy's thats helped alot!

 

[SEO Positive]

however, this chart is by no means correct, and is way off.

So..... according to this, if you have 1 PR 10 link to gain a PR7 for yourself? Absolute rubbish.

ok, now lets look at another one. It takes just 1 PR 7 link to get a PR5? Nope, thats wrong too.

another. just 555 PR8 links to get a PR10? Well if that were true, then i will go and get em.

Sorry, others may disagree, but, this is way out!!!!!!

However, this chart shows you the type of thing you want to be looking at, getting high quality, and good PR sites linking to you will help your own pagerank.

 

[nitro23456]

However, this chart shows you the type of thing you want to be looking at, getting high quality, and good PR sites linking to you will help your own pagerank.

Which is the entire point.

I did an experiment two years ago with a new site with only one PR3 link inbound. I got a PR3 in the next update merely from this. I then sold 5 links from it and down it went to PR1. Funny old big G

 

[pixelo]

It is worth it - if you can actually create some traction for the other sites.

I used to work for a large online marketing agency and had a client working in the serviced office niche, which is unbelievably competitive (£5.00+ per click on Adwords, sometimes £10+). Some of the competitors were creating masses of sites for all the competitive keywords and interlinking between them. E.g. Main site "offices.co.uk" has links from mayfairservicedoffices.co.uk, central-london-offices.com, serviced-offices-soho.co.uk etc etc.

Seemed to work really well, although in that market the players all have such huge budgets it's hard to tell what's working as they are all trying 10 different tactics at the same time.

 

[eventdomain]

so website owners got to get 555 PR 2 links just to get a PR 4 - actually that's quite a lot and not easy to do.

Problem is, trying to get a higher PR 3 link is even tougher, since link pages got devalued, and won't carry PR anymore.

So what's left - nothing reciprocal link-wise, so people will have to rely on other's generosity. But who's going to give away high value webspace, none I'd say, and I don't blame them.

Its very tough to get any kind of links these days, even on devalued link pages.... but lets face it, these links are just favour for favour efforts leading to little results as the links are too deep, so won't work for passing traffic. They aren't real votes anyway, and won't carry weight in the eyes of the searcher, as people know most links pages aren't proper resource pages meant to help.