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site networking in google ranking

Site Networking

Topics: one of the most effective google ranking technique. Used by Adult webmasters most, can be made by everyone in an inexpensive way

After building an optimized website, next step is turning it into an hub. A hub, when speaking about site network, it is a website that carries out the role of point of reference for other sites (than link to it) that share arguments and type of contents with it.
Notice that creating a site network, where different sites share and exchange links and topics is not strictly necessary when competing for not-too-used keywords. A good optimization made by following the scheme in this e-book is enough, in most cases, to achieve great results and unexpectable ranking positions.
Site networking can support you if:

a. you’re competine for one o more “hot” keywords
b. you want to consolidate your Google ranking
c. you want your internet business (or contents) to have large relevance,
TRUE:
1. your site needs to have at least ONE site linking to it to be indexed by Google;
2. always prefer international domain (.com , .net....) rather than country domains (.fr , .co.uk , .it ...); notice that even if Google has many language located sites (Google.fr...and so on), response pages are taken from the same databases.
3. Keyword-rich-domain sites, with rich contents, that link to main website will boost-up your ranking
FALSE:
1. Site networking is ALWAYS considered spam
2. Developing and maintaining a small/medium/huge network is very expensive
Site Networking: the practical way
There can be two affordable ways to make a network (see graphical examples)

1. Directory Style
(see graph example 01)

This type of technique is much fruitful for websites that have large amount of contents. The contents come subdivided in great topics and come created secondary pages: network's sites are linked from the hub's secondary pages, while those websites link to the index.html (main page) of the hub with text hyperlinks that include the keywords you are competing for.
Directory Style technique let the webmaster obtain two important goals: the hub become relevant because of the many links that come from the secondary pages; your network's sites become relevant because of the links that come from a relevant sites. Obviously, links must be in text format and from static html pages, to get the best from Googlebot indexing.
The great advantage when developing a directory style network is that you can keep open your structure to other webmasters. You'll get large amounts of link to your hub's index page for free, and your relevance will increase constantly.
1.a - Directory Style Network - How to
Develop network sites first. Remember they must be content-rich and not contain any redirectory. People must reach your main site (the hub) by following normal hypertextual link (so Googlebot does) and not be fraudolently redirected somewhere else. Build secondary sites as you wanted to have high rankings with them: this means you must optimize them for some certain keywords, therefore keep in mind what you have learnt by reading this documentation: title tags, headings, text links, keyword pattern, keyword rich path/url.
Assuming that you have developed five (5) secondary websites, ask google to index them. (http://www.google.com/addurl.html). To be sure that Google index your sites link them from a website (no matter which) that is already indexed by Google. Don't care about its pagerank or its content, you're doing this to let Google crawler know that your secondary exist.

When all your site are indexed (this can take one or two months, and you can see it by typing their Url in Google search field) put links to other four sites on each one. This means every site will link to other four sites' home page.
Notice that this practice will NOT help those sites' pagerank™, but it will help your keywords' relevance. Although indexed Google will not assign them a pagerank™; a value will appear in the toolbar after a couple of months (so don't fear the grey bar when opening your websites...)
When all your sites have a pagerank™, create your main website. This website will be optimized too because your goal is to have THIS website high ranked in Google. If you want to maintain your company identity you dont have to choose a keyword-rich domain because it will get heavy-weighted votes from your secondary websites.
Make this site as you normally would. Add some links to topic-specific section of your site (consider them as RCP): these will be the pages where you will include the link to your secondary websites. This internal sections will be content-rich, with proper use of title and headings, and will link to the secondary site that is about that particular topic.
Add a single link into secondary websites home page that leads to your main site home page. Your main site will receive as many inbound links as the number of your secondary websites

2. Passive mode style
(see graph example 02)

This type of technique starts directly from pagerank™ algorythm: each inbound link represent a "vote" for your site, and this vote must be specific and clear. In other words a link is not enough: google wants to know WHY this vote has been casted.
Simply,
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com">yoursite</a>
is NOT the same as
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com">blue leather shoes</a>

(imagine the query "blue leather shoes": which kind of link can give you a chance more?)
If you need a clear explanation of this, try typing the word "EXIT" in Google search field...in the respons page you'll see "disney.com", "yahoo.com", google.com" and so on...why? Because thousands and thousands of adult websites have a disclaimer page that inform users about their explicit contents, and usually have an "exit" link that point to another non-adult site. It's very common to link to disney.com or yahoo.com: therefore Googlebot interprets these links as "votes" for the keyword "exit".
Not only, Google's crawlers also check out the contents of the sites that link to you, so the same link <a href="http://www.yoursite.com">blue leather shoes</a> has more relevance when put in a website that speaks about shoes than a site that speaks about cars.
Passive mode technique is a way to reproduce similar conditions: there's an hub and a number of other topic-related sites that link to it. The main site (hub) does NOT link to them in any way. It just get great benefit from a large number of topic specific inbound links.

The great advantage of using this technique is that the hub won't ever risk any low-rating because it doesn link any website (it cannot be penalized by linking pagerank <1 websites) , but you must pay attention to the pagerank of the network's sites (which must not be lower than 4 if you want to check them out with "link:www.yoursite.com" command) otherwise inbound links will lose value.
Notice that the pagerank™ value of the sites that link to your site is fundamental when you're planning to increase your pagerank™; Google counts all links from pagerank >=4 sites when calculating yours. Anyway, links that are relevant for your keywords/ranking competition can come from any indexed site.
That's why an optimized, honest, site network always support your ranking work, regardless of the pagerank™.
A site network is not an expensive investment. Second level domains --www.yourname.com--- are not strictly necessary (every single page has a pagerank™, so pages in free hosting have one too) , then you can check out some free domain/hosting companies offering, like Doteasy.com or some good, authoritative hosting like geocities.com.

  1. Start page
  2. Disclaimer / Intro to This tutorial
  3. How Google works
    General Overview - features
    Google's Spam Prevention
    Google SandBox
  4. Analysis
    Analyze yourself/your enemies
    Choose your keywords
    Market and keyword study
  5. Site Structure
    Words in U.r.l.
    Graphical view
    Explaination
    Rich Content Pages
  6. Site Networking
    Definition / How to create a small network
    Graphical example 01
    Graphical example 02
  7. This tutorial Goodies
    Glossary
    Seo Equipment and skills

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