Busted by google - Link buying

[soulscience]

Just do one. It either works or it doesn't. Unlike those lazy folks out there, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Definitely randomize your templates. You can randomize your own unique templates easily as well.

I have some input based on personal experience. If your DOM is 10% different, that is enough for Google to skip you in a mass ban. It doesn't guarantee you will evade manual inspections, only quality content and genuine differentiation can do that.

Don't keep nav common, don't keep footer content common, and don't keep external filenames (css for example) common. Change class names as well. I work above and below the body tags usually.

When you've done it once or twice, it's under an hour per site. If your sites are worth more than one hour of wages to you, then it is an easy economic calculation.

if you're using something like Wordpress or an engine with a lot of templates, it's easy to keep them random. The bad news is, not all templates are equally good on the user side, so there are tradeoffs if every node in your network is expected to optimally convert.

+rep

try template spinning much like article spinning ie your stylesheet will look like this before you spin a template.

[#col1|#column2] {width:[100px|125px]; float:[left|right];}

used [] instead of {} as it is used in css.

That's very cool, randomize classes as well like guerilla said.

 

[DarkN1ght]

Yikes this thread scares me. I have two sites on the same IP, same theme, and same niche (competing products), so content is pretty similar. I just launched the second site.

I'm using different linkbuilding tactics and no interlinking although they both link to the same 'master' site.

I don't feel like changing these two, but it looks like I'll stop using the same theme more than a couple of times.

I have done the same thing with mobile content sites. (180 different phone sites all running from the same DB with a front-end script designed to fit all the content to a given device) Anyways, I was using the same template for all of them WITH ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE - Variations in CSS titles, classes, colors etc. It worked for me and they are still up... I sold the lot 3 or 4 months ago only keeping the top performers for myself =D