: Backlink "web" from many sites to many sites = penalty? im building several Web 2.0 properties that will have backlinks to several websites. Each of the websites is geo-targeted to a different

@Jamie184

Google looks at registration, DNS, whois, host, network, contact, citation, social, and any other information that is available and determines what sites have relationships with other sites. In addition, links are evaluated and mapped to look for linking patterns regardless of what pattern may present itself. It is an AI function and not hard-coded. Being in the business of looking at data patterns and determining relationships between network entities, I should warn you that Google has much of the same technology that the DoD and other entities concerned and charged with the nations security uses to evaluate trust networks, hack patterns, and at the very least relationships. I also warn you that this has existed for quite some time and is a well matured science. Google and security researchers share technology and new theories back and forth freely.

I would figure that Google would frown on this severely. It may take a while, but it will happen.

Once Google has seen a linking scheme pattern, it will de-list your site and your TrustRank will be in the toilet. It will take as much as a year to regain any good search traffic and even then the foundation, the TrustRank, will limit your placement for quite some time. Perhaps even years.

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