What is a link pyramid?

The Idea behind the Link Pyramid is that while link juice can pass from one site to the next, ranking penalties generally stop after one hop. It works on the premise that the lowest quality sites link upwards to the next higher quality sites in your network. Sites can link laterally and upwards but not downwards.

I'll explain how it looks.

here’s what the pyramid looks like:

The Bottom

At the bottom of the Pyramid sits a network of sites you created on free blog host or Squido, or anywhere you can get web space for free. These sites should not have ads on them. These sites will link to random other quality sites on the web and to your 2nd level sites.If you are not selling anything on these sites there is more leeway. The only type of links you are sending to these sites are those free spammy links from link software.

2nd Level of Pyramid:
Then we have your 2nd level of the Link Pyramid. This is where you put your domain portfolio to work. This network of sites is distributed across cheep shared hosting accounts. The more shared hosting accounts you have for this purpose, the smaller your footprint will be. Hosting is really cheep these days, and you’ll probably be spending more each year on domain renewals than you will be on shared hosting.
This 2nd level of sites will get links from the bottom level of sites, but never link back down to them.

The Golden Crest

Here we have the sites that are ready for prime time. They have fantastic designs and flow. They are your niche authority sites. Their links come from Level 2 of the pyramid, link buys, link bait, and manual, targeted Link spamming. The Golden crest can make money, but the real purpose of these sites is to link to the Top of your pyramid.

The Top

At the Top of the Pyramid is the Target site: That’s the pristine white hat looking site that you want to present to your customers and to rank in the search engines. This site has the bulk of your editorial content: you’re link bait. This site is an e-commerce site that is designed to make money. This is the site you’re paying bloggers and reviewers to link to. You’re only purchasing the highest quality links to this site and your link Ninjas are securing only the best quality links. This is the site that is optimized for the keywords you know make money. This is your money site.

Originally Posted by zetabyte

The Idea behind the Link Pyramid is that while link juice can pass from one site to the next, ranking penalties generally stop after one hop. It works on the premise that the lowest quality sites link upwards to the next higher quality sites in your network. Sites can link laterally and upwards but not downwards.

I'll explain how it looks.

here’s what the pyramid looks like:

The Bottom

At the bottom of the Pyramid sits a network of sites you created on free blog host or Squido, or anywhere you can get web space for free. These sites should not have ads on them. These sites will link to random other quality sites on the web and to your 2nd level sites.If you are not selling anything on these sites there is more leeway. The only type of links you are sending to these sites are those free spammy links from link software.

2nd Level of Pyramid:
Then we have your 2nd level of the Link Pyramid. This is where you put your domain portfolio to work. This network of sites is distributed across cheep shared hosting accounts. The more shared hosting accounts you have for this purpose, the smaller your footprint will be. Hosting is really cheep these days, and you’ll probably be spending more each year on domain renewals than you will be on shared hosting.
This 2nd level of sites will get links from the bottom level of sites, but never link back down to them.

The Golden Crest

Here we have the sites that are ready for prime time. They have fantastic designs and flow. They are your niche authority sites. Their links come from Level 2 of the pyramid, link buys, link bait, and manual, targeted Link spamming. The Golden crest can make money, but the real purpose of these sites is to link to the Top of your pyramid.

The Top

At the Top of the Pyramid is the Target site: That’s the pristine white hat looking site that you want to present to your customers and to rank in the search engines. This site has the bulk of your editorial content: you’re link bait. This site is an e-commerce site that is designed to make money. This is the site you’re paying bloggers and reviewers to link to. You’re only purchasing the highest quality links to this site and your link Ninjas are securing only the best quality links. This is the site that is optimized for the keywords you know make money. This is your money site.

this is the best explanation to what you have been asking..

Link pyramid has three level structure
1) Base Links
2) Mid Links
3) Highest quality links
In the base level, there are poor links, Mid links are links from web sites that have more authority than base links and highest quality links have high PR links with best quality in the comparison of base and mid links.

The main objective of the link pyramid to link the sites of lower quality and connect to the next higher quality sites.

Link Pyramid has three levels. Base Links,Mid-Grade Links,and Highest-Quality Links. Articles, social bookmarking, blog commenting all these are come in base line. Sites which have 4-5 PR are came in mid-grade links and authority sites comes under highest quality links.

Link pyramid seems something new to me, I have never come across with such a process. Yes I am aware about link wheel and now link pyramid, looking to all these it seems that there is no definite way of linking, anything done to look whole network of linking as a natural process will help you to gain some juice. If this is the case than why should we stick to any one method, hope we should be creative and develop our different model of linking to make most out of them.
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Smith Jones
SEO Company India

Nice post Dude keep it up. Thanks for sharing..

Link pyramid is the process of connected websites to each other without the circle pattern that is called link pyramid. It works like A site links to B site, B site links to C sites, C site links to D sites. There are three levels of link pyramid 1) base links that means lower quality site e.g.- directories 2) med links that means medium quality sites e.g.- article sites and 3) higher quality links such as blog, forum.

So informative post.. Thanks for sharing..

Link pyramid is a net type situation but in this it is open from the top means the top point of the pyramid is our site in other words its a differ situation from link wheel also.