Ulterior Motives

Actually, I'm also doing this to see if I can boost the ratings of some of the sites in my links list. Unfortunately, I've chosen a template that doesn't have a links list! But I'll soon fix that.

Here's the deal. My own website at www.dmgreer.com has a Page Rank of 5, and I've done no promotion, haven't even tried much SEO techniques on it. But if you check on the backlinks using a tool I found in www.seochat.com, you'll see that Google says I've got couple of dozen links coming in, and some of the other search engines say I have as many as 470 links as of this writing.

What the search engines don't know is that almost all these links are coming from my own websites: www.3dskimaps.com, www.luxefon.com, and www.hillcrestcheer.com. Now, all these sites have vastly different content, so it's almost impossible to tell they're related, but I put links to the Mother Site, or the Father Site as the case may be, so every page of those sites points to my main site, and boosts it's rank to a respectable number.

Right?

Well, take a look at the other family of sites: www.wujidomartialarts.com, www.taichidallas.com, www.gomountain.net, and www.dallasmartialarts.net.

The main site that I want to have page rank, and for which I've tried many an SEO technique, is at Page Rank 0. A check on the backlinks indicate 14 or 15 backlinks from each search engine. But www.taichidallas.com has a Page Rank of 3, with backlink numbers ranging from 0 to 1!

What's up with that? That's what I'm trying to find out. I'm hoping that starting this blog will not only give me a clue about what's going on there, but also that I can use it to boost the rankings of all my sites, and especially www.wujidomartialarts.com.