Hi all, my first post on this site.

A client of mine runs an entertainment and music website and wants me to register some domains for then which reflect the keyword searches for there users. They want content placed on the sites with several links back to the main site.

This was suggested by a SEO specialist they got a quote from. Iv'e read this beforehttp://www.google.com/support/web ... swer=66356

But this seems to be bit of a gray area and am unsure if they will be penalised. Obviously creating better key words within there current site would be optimal but would take a lot longer to integrate due to the style of there site.

thoughts?

This seems like a link scheme and can be dangerous. Three things I can think off, you can do to stay on the safe site.
-Place those sites on various ip addresses
-Let those domains age a bit before placing links back to the main site
-Don't just rely on these backlinks. Mix it up be gaining some other quality backlinks inbetween

Yeah, that's right! there are other methods out there to build links and that's one of those which you can't rely on it alone.

It can't be link scam if you are putting some value on that site, so try to put quality content and include one or 2 links with that!

[quote="maxseo"]This seems like a link scheme and can be dangerous. Three things I can think off, you can do to stay on the safe site.
-Place those sites on various ip addresses
-Let those domains age a bit before placing links back to the main site
-Don't just rely on these backlinks. Mix it up be gaining some other quality backlinks inbetween[/quote]

I would think that putting it on various IP addresses would be moot since you are going to use a hosting service anyway. Unless you want to manage different hosting services....

Yes, it is not scam, but it is in gray hat technique as I think as well.