How Your Network Affects Your PR Ratings...

How Your Network Affects Your PR Ratings...
By: Martin Lemieux

It's been long overdue that I've been wanting to talk about
how owning a network of web sites, drastically affects your
page ranking within Google.

For some of you, you may closely watch what goes on with Page
Ranking Within Google with your trusty toolbar, and some of
you may not have a clue nor care enough to watch your web
site popularity and stay glued to you se ranking like a hawk.

If you've ever considered owning a successful network of web
sites, you'll want to start paying close attention as to how
your network affects your search positions.

Page Ranking is like an ocean "tide", it comes and goes and
then comes back again, feeding a never ending sea of web site
owners and keeping them on the shore to watch. What you want
to notice is how owning a few "title waves" coming in, will
drastically kill your page ranking but increase your search
engine saturation.

If you haven't heard the term saturation before, it's merely
referred to as the amount of links within your site that gets
listed by search engines. So if you have 20 pages within your
web site, you should have 20 pages listed in search engines.

If you don't have 20 pages listed, your search engine
saturation is lower than it should be and you should
concentrate on promoting ALL your pages, not just the main
page of your site.

Personally owning a network of sites, and having worked on a
network of 180 sites for one client, I've come to the
conclusion that if you want to reach a 6/10 Google ranking,
don't merely rely on your network to get success. Like I
mention in all my articles, search engines are getting
smarter and can detect and sniff out a network of web sites
created to help one thing, profit.

What you want to do is like I mentioned in a previous
article, promote ALL your pages in as many web sites as you
can. Find all related material to what you do.

Please don't get me wrong, owning a network is in no way
harmful to have. The way a network will work successfully is
by at least having one of your web sites already successful
and the rest are tailing on it's success.

Trying to start an entire network from scratch is not only
ludicrous, it would take a really good chunk of someone's
budget just to make sure you would succeed in keeping up with
the demand.

All too many times, I see people promote their site for a
month or so, realize it's a lot of work and start neglecting
it completely. Never give up on your dream, you only have one
person to blame, yourself.

Start slow, start with one site. Expand it until you are
ready to move onto another on-going project. Always remember
that by starting another site within your network will not
only bring you more responsibilities but it will be your
responsibility to make sure this new web site is successful
and that the old one isn't forgotten either.

So in conclusion:
Don't only rely on your network to bring your page ranking up
and always look for new sources to improve on promoting all
your pages.

Hope this helps all of you!