Not necessarily so OP is making hanmade web 2's if you look around you can even see web 2's ranking..Web 2s are not good anymore for they are heavily spam already.. google find them like profile links.
Not really. But to be precautious against penalties it's best to develop the outside tiers first, if they're not demoted in weeks/months, then it's a good indicator that it won't hurt the money site when you link tier1 to it.
I would like to add that I try to make my tier one web 2's very general this way I can reuse the same properties over and over.
For instance lets say I am a home improvement guru I would make my web 2's about general home improvement so I can make dozens of money sites around things like appliances, tools etc and its all niche relevant and the web 2's look natural too.
This is very common on REAL sites, most link out to several different sites and sources and in this case they will all link out to your Amazon (or whatever) money sites..
Saves a lot of time so you dont have to build an entire new web 2 structure for every new money site you make.
You need to give some gap in every tier links to make it look more natural.does the timing in which I post tier 1 and tier 2, 3 blogs matter?
its not weird at all, many sites point to other sites in their niche and in fact in my opinion it is MORE normal, how many sites with more than a few posts ONLY post to 1 other site?I have thought about what you just said but Google wouldn't find it weird that the same network of blogs are pointing to two different money sites? Let's say you make a whole link pyramid that links for money site 1 and two months later you add the links to another money site