Building support sites for your $ site

[drumat5280]

Two years ago I was on the Link Exchange band wagon. It seemed to work for awhile, but now i got off that wagon because it was so time consuming i never got to write any content!

My latest method is to build support sites that replace the link exchange sites that i originally requested links for.

My support sites link to my money making site. The support sites are full of good clean relevant content that is easy to write (without research) and point to the main site.

Of course this is a much more time consuming and expensive way to do it, but i have found the results to be very good for geo targeting certain pages. If certain anchor text is not working on the support site you don't have to beg the link exchange partner to change it for you, you just do it yourself.

I plan on building 25-30 of these sites. I have been doing this for about a year and the results are good.

I am curious if anyone else is doing this as well?

[Nebraska]

I have been doing this for several years and it works *very* good.

There are small problems though
- Keeping track of where everything is hosted. This sounds a bit daft, but you want to spread your sites around and soon you will have a dozen hosts or more.
- Making sure the hosting fees are paid. Credit card expiration dates are the biggest issue.
- Renewing the domain names. I lost several good domains/sites recently due to the email address listed for the Domains being a site *that I sold*. I never received the notices that they were expiring and I had the domains registered with seperate registrars - ones I rarely/never check.

I'm sure there are more issues, but these were the few that came to mind.

[gabs]

All depends how you want to look at it.. Many many people think along the lines of invest your time in 1 site and make it the best..

By adding content and pages to your site your becoming more and more of a auth site. Worth thinking about...

[dazzlindonna]

And with all those support sites, comes the added burden of getting links to them. If that's not a problem, then great. But I prefer doing it the way gabs mentioned.

[www.wintechmedia.com]

Yes this is the better way to do it however it is costly and time consuming. But gabs is absolutely right if you are having a site with main focus on it will definately grow sooner.