>>However, a better example would be if your gold site was
>>about dogs...Your tin and silver sites should be about:
>>
>>
>>dog training
>>german shepards
>>pet health
>>rotweilers
>>poodles
>>dog collars
>>puppy breeding
>>dogs
>>dogs
>>dogs
>
>Hi Kurt... without doing any blackhat, would this still
>work?

Hi Ed...

Yep, it will still work and should be the proper course of action. If you have a site about "dogs", you should have a blog about "german shepards", a squidoo lense about "pet health", etc.

You should then use varied linking methods to get links to THOSE sites/blogs/lenses, in addition to your own site(s).

You should also focus on resources that create an RSS pheed and submit all your pheeds to all the right places.