High PR through crosslinking with offsite discussion board

I have a few sites that I manage to easily get PR's of 6 and 7 with by having offsite discussion boards hosted on BoardHost and other such discussion board services.

Each domain I have set up for a client has links to the appropriate offsite discussion board. The discussion board (one for each domain I have, though 2 in one case,) have similar names and are configured that on each posting someone makes to the discussion board there is a link to the main page and sometimes to other pages I want to highlight.

It takes no time at all for users to have posted 1000 messages giving me 1000 links each rated at PR4 or PR5 and with only one other link on those pages to drive up my real site's domain PR to 6 or in a few cases 7!

Of course I tell the clients to do their own postings on the discussion boards and make sure to do some that have lots of keywords and keyphrases to target Google with.

This has the added benefit that in one case where I have two discussion boards on different topics linked to the same domain, I have 6 out of the top 10 listings for a Google keyphrase, 2 for the main domain and 2 for each of the 2 related discussion boards each hosted on a different site. It really squeezes out the competition.

Do you think Google will ever figure out how I get so many backlinks, get more than 2 SERP listings, and penalize my sites?

(And no I will not list my sites for fear someone might rat me out.)

No comments?

Most of the boards on BoardHost have PR0 so I don't see how this would work unless you already had a board with high PR. This is the same reason writing a script to post to guestbooks with your url won't work.

Notice that SEOChat has been grey this month -- helps to appreciate a couple of things.

1. Everything works great for a time.

2. Too much of any one thing will come back to bite.

3. When you don't expect it.

So for the argument - you probably will suceed "for a time" and so will clients... right up to being banned if you don't tailor your strategy to "all encompassing".

No matter what > only reciprocals, only inbounds, only outbounds, only crosslinks or only your "keyword rich" content... is doomed to fail.

Template designs -- that's is only one design strategy -- repeated again, and again, and again will always fail > eventually.

Bots can read much more in a design > than you or I.

Fathom can you explain what you mean about the template strategy?

template > A pattern -- used to replicate a precise preset format so that the format does not have to be recreated each time it is developed.

Commonly used to develop massive reciprocals, in, out or crosslinked pages in an attempt to artificially manipulate PageRank/Link Popularity.

Danger - googlebot is an expert at decyphering complex patterns - particularly -- link patterns.

e.g. placing crosslinks always at the bottom of a page or rather always in the same place accordingly to the bots readability... top to bottom, left to right.

CSS can reduce this effect by randomly alterating div id placements

With enough crosslinking your Boardhost or other discussion board will have a PR6 or PR5 and the individual pages a PR5 or PR4. It you make sure each posting made on the discussion board has one or two links back to your main site, in no time you can have 100 PR5 or PR4 links.

This does work extremely well in boosting the PR of your main site and you get more SERP listings. While Google only allows 2 results per domain if you have two or three domains using this strategy you get up with 4 or 6 of the SERP listings and if they are all in Googles top ten results you squeeze your competition out of the first page results.

The only caveat is to make sure you don't have duplicate content.

I have done this successfully many times and not only do I get top rankings but have squeezed the competition out of the front page of Google search results.

As long as there is no duplicate content there is no way for Google to scan and know that the discussion boards are meant to produce link pages. And if you get the employees of the companies who hire you to post the messages to the offsite discussion board or boards they can seed the postings with all the keywords you suggest.