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Building a website galaxy

I read a lot of internet entrepreneur/internet marketing/ SEO type blogs and it isn’t uncommon for a blogger to set out on an ambitious project while completely oblivious of that fact that it is doomed to fail because of a fundamental flaw. The goal of this section is to explain why the blogger’s project is doomed to fail by pointing out the flaws.
Today I will be reviewing Eureka Diary Building A Website Galaxy from July 11th, 2007
In exchange for being reviewed the blogger gets a free backlink. The link to the blog be found here: http://www.eurekadiary.com/75/building-a-website-galaxy

In a nutshell the idea behind the website galaxy is to create a bunch of ‘moon’ sites on that link to a ‘planet’.Then each planet site links to a ’sun’ which is the main site. Technically this would be a solar system, not a galaxy, but I digress. The moons, planets, and sun would all have different IP addresses and use RSS based content as well as varying wordpress based templates.

To be blunt, the reason why this galaxy will fail is because driving traffic to any of the sites (planets, moons, sun) will be nearly impossible. Second, interlinking 20 or so PR0 sites together will garner no additional ranking or PR juic to any of the moons or planets.

Regarding the first flaw establishing solid, search engine rankings usually takes a long time. You can’t just slap up some RSS content and expect to start drawing in visitors. It just doesn’t happen unless you target the least competitive of keywords. But it is difficult to monetize the uncompetitive keyword unless you drive A LOT of traffic to them. While you can get a lot of search engine traffic to a new site through various blackhat methods I’m assuming he isn’t going to use blackhat but just use RSS feeds and aggregation. What will happen is that he will get his sites indexed, but won’t get any traffic.

The second flaw is that interlinking a bunch of PR0 sites together won’t give you a search engine or PR boost. One problem is that all the planet sites link to the sun, but the sun doesn’t link to any sites. It would be more efficient if the sun linked to each planet so that way you would only need a single powerful link pointing to the sun to get the entire galaxy indexed. Instead you need to point links ot each individual planet.

Overall, it is a commendable effort but one that is doomed to fail. Hopefully he will take it as a learning experience.