Links make Google happy

That's what I've read, anyway. The help on Google's site confirms this. The more incoming links you have from "quality" sites (ie with good content), the higher will be your site's rank.
Now if that's not an invitation to subscribe to link farms, I don't know what is. But wait! Google penalise you if your links come purely from link farms. They're not stupid - they know all the tricks.
But what if I was to create say, 20 different sites, all on different domains, and they all linked to each other? As long as my sites contained some decent content, shouldn't Google take note of this and promote all of my sites?
I think so.

Now what if it was 50 sites? or 100 sites? Surely that should create a nice network of sites that all help to pull each other up the ranks. It would be like having my own link farm, but I would have total control over the quality of the sites that linked in. And rather than simply making a list of links, I could spread the links throughout the sites at relevant places.

Now how about getting other people to link to my sites? Well I have a cunning plan for that, too. It's all about incentives. I'm working on a range of software packages to create and manage content sites (which I'll be using to create my own sites of course).

My plan is to sell these packages to other Internet Marketers. So what if I offered this deal to my customers?
I create a list containing "These sites were created using Content Site Builder" and add links to my customers' generated sites. In return, they put a link to my site on their site saying "Created with Content Site Builder".

My software already contains an option to add this link to the generated sites, so it's no big deal for them. In return, they get an external link coming in which will help their rank.

And the higher their sites rank, the higher mine will rank. And the higher mine goes, the more people see it, buy the softwre and link in.
It's an obvious solution.

Now all I need to do is get that software finished and out on the market...

More Alexa experiments

My current websites have all been experiments so far, just to find out about search engine optimisation, blogging and pinging, content etc.
Over the next week or so, I'm going to be restructuring my sites - moving different content to different domains etc.
So it's going to be interesting how that affects my Alexa rank. I suspect it might have a major effect on Google as well. One of my experimental content sites had quite a large number of pages indexed by Google. Then I changed the content entirely and Google's webmaster tools now report 67 pages unreachable because they no longer exist, but they are still in Google's index.
This is despite creating a new Google sitemap and submitting it to Google. After about a month, Google still hasn't caught up. I guess it doesn't deem the site "important" enough.

Another way of increasing the Google rank of a site is to set up incoming links. Well all of my sites (in the new form that they will be taking) are related to each other, so I can include valid links from each site to all the others.
Perhaps that will have a positive effect on the rank.

I'll report back when it happens.