Should I cross link all my niche blogs?

bertuseng · 08-07-2010, 04:22 AM

I have a small network of about 13 micro niche blogs in various niches. I recently decided I am going to cross link between them.

I added a text widget with all the sites' links with anchor text for main keywords to each blog. That means each blog will get a lot of additional backlinks and distribute link juice between them.

Is this a good idea for SEO? I have seen a jump in the SERPS for some of my sites, but I have also done a lot of additional backlinking, so I don't know if this is because of this.

Thanks.

Dennis Wilson · 08-07-2010, 05:03 AM

Bad Idea, good chance of getting a penalty

bgmacaw · 08-07-2010, 06:48 AM

The 'common wisdom' is no, you should not.

However, there is some evidence to the contrary that I've seen. I've noticed that authority sites like icanhascheezburger.com, sites in the CBS Interactive group, sites run by Andrew Breitbart, sites by the Huffington Post and so forth routinely use their authority sites to launch new sites upward in results. They end up with what you might call an 'authority network'. When you have that kind of power, yes, you can crosslink like crazy without any problem. Can you do it at lower levels of authority? Good question.

keith115 · 08-07-2010, 07:07 AM

I would say no going by what i have seen and been told in the past something G dont like definitely if on same IP, but im no expert so i may be wrong.

InkCreative · 08-07-2010, 08:05 AM

Do they compliment each other? If so, yes, if not, there's no point.

Whitney Segura · 08-07-2010, 09:38 AM

You definitely want to interlink them, if they are of the same niche topic. If it's a website about gardening, you should not link to a site about SEO. Tell me the topics, and I will give you a straight answer. But, interlinking them is going to boost your other sites, so do it with the anchor text you want, and don't link back to the other site, from the main domain you are promoting.

jtpada · 08-07-2010, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Whitney Segura

You definitely want to interlink them, if they are of the same niche topic. If it's a website about gardening, you should not link to a site about SEO. Tell me the topics, and I will give you a straight answer. But, interlinking them is going to boost your other sites, so do it with the anchor text you want, and don't link back to the other site, from the main domain you are promoting.

Agreed. Only link sites that are in the same niche or else the link relevance gets deminished.

FrankBowman · 08-07-2010, 02:34 PM

I would crosslink only if all your sites are on a different host and your have privacy enabled on your domain names.................otherwise you'll be in deep sheet crosslinking sites on the same shared host.

Just my humble opinion.

Dennis Wilson · 08-08-2010, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FrankBowman

I would crosslink only if all your sites are on a different host and your have privacy enabled on your domain names.................otherwise you'll be in deep sheet crosslinking sites on the same shared host.

Just my humble opinion.

Agreed though not entirely sure that privacy is needed. I'm speaking from bitter experience here having made this mistake in the past of thinking interlinking related niche sites made sense.

Unfortunately googles spider is not intelligent enough to realise this and just sees what appears to be unnatural linking.

HCLee · 08-09-2010, 12:31 AM

This is also my understanding too. I have lots of niche sites but have never linked them together for this reason.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FrankBowman

I would crosslink only if all your sites are on a different host and your have privacy enabled on your domain names.................otherwise you'll be in deep sheet crosslinking sites on the same shared host.

Just my humble opinion.

bertuseng · 08-11-2010, 10:00 AM

It looks like will quickly have to go unlink my sites. WHoops.

dburk · 08-11-2010, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FrankBowman

I would crosslink only if all your sites are on a different host and your have privacy enabled on your domain names.................otherwise you'll be in deep sheet crosslinking sites on the same shared host.

Just my humble opinion.

Hi FrankBowman,

I think you may be vastly underestimating Google's ability to detect spam. I believe they don't care one bit whether spam comes from unique IPs or distinct website owners. They see spam as spam no matter who creates it or where it is hosted.

I find it a silly notion that they would treat spam differently just because it comes from a unique IP. It seems just as silly to me to think that useful backlinks that are hosted on the same IP would not be considered by Google to be anything but good.

Google engineer Matt Cutts has addressed this issue numerous times and it still seems to fall on deaf ears.

Myth busting: virtual hosts vs. dedicated IP addresses

YouTube - Is cross-linking websites bad?

paulgl · 08-11-2010, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dburk

I find it a silly notion that they would treat spam differently just because it comes from a unique IP. It seems just as silly to me to think that useful backlinks that are hosted on the same IP would not be considered by Google to be anything but good.
YouTube - Is cross-linking websites bad?

Silly and completely illogical.

I've been saying that for a long time. Or similar stuff.

Even when you point out many, many huge sites, with sites all cross linked, on
the same class a server no less, ...different or even same niches...

I know some of the best links you can get is from your own, cross linked sites.
Seems to be such a secret.

A little off topic, here's something I recently found out. Did you know that
digitalpoint and target are on the same server? If target and digitalpoint don't
care about a unique ips, I wonder...

Paul

Jack Sprat · 08-12-2010, 01:44 AM

I watched the PR of a farm of link directories that I came across in my travels for a while. There were 36 sites in the group each of which was linked to each of the others via a footer link on each page of each directory - all sites in the group were PR4 - I thought if this works longterm this is clearly an easy way to go.

This footer link may be similar to the text widget you've placed on your 13 sites. For $169 this crowd would give you a directory listing in all 36 PR4 directories - they made quite a fuss about their PR4 status.

One day I popped past for a quick check and every single one of those sites was PR0 - so perhaps a strategy to be treated with caution - they have removed any mention of PR in their sales pitch.

tpw · 08-12-2010, 02:11 AM

would avoid doing... especially if they are not on related niches...

I found the hard way that Google can track that kind of stuff, and they are smart enough to see someone gaming their results thru self-serving links...

This approach got my six blogger blogs removed from their network... And I was only linking from one to two, two to three, etc.

desouth · 08-13-2010, 11:46 AM

This is one of my best SEO tricks

Quote:

Originally Posted by bertuseng

I have a small network of about 13 micro niche blogs in various niches. I recently decided I am going to cross link between them.

I added a text widget with all the sites' links with anchor text for main keywords to each blog. That means each blog will get a lot of additional backlinks and distribute link juice between them.

Is this a good idea for SEO? I have seen a jump in the SERPS for some of my sites, but I have also done a lot of additional backlinking, so I don't know if this is because of this.

Thanks.

pettforest · 08-25-2010, 03:16 PM

How to make cross link?

halfdred · 08-27-2010, 12:08 PM

I don't recommend cross linking your blogs at all. You should keep them as separate entities in my opinion. Even with nofollow links

lbtillmanyoung · 08-27-2010, 12:15 PM

I also have a network of niche websites (25 in total). I used my initial PR and linkjuice from my strongest niche to help "jump-start" the others. I think that if you maintain the same niche and are just targetting different keywords then you should be good.

My advice: keep growing your network of authority sites. You'll do just fine.

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Jack Sprat Warrior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 29 Thanks: 2 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Should I cross link all my niche blogs? I watched the PR of a farm of link directories that I came across in my travels for a while. There were 36 sites in the group each of which was linked to each of the others via a footer link on each page of each directory - all sites in the group were PR4 - I thought if this works longterm this is clearly an easy way to go. This footer link may be similar to the text widget you've placed on your 13 sites. For $169 this crowd would give you a directory listing in all 36 PR4 directories - they made quite a fuss about their PR4 status. One day I popped past for a quick check and every single one of those sites was PR0 - so perhaps a strategy to be treated with caution - they have removed any mention of PR in their sales pitch.

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lbtillmanyoung lbtillmanyoung Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Everywhere Posts: 27 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts Contact Info	Re: Should I cross link all my niche blogs? I also have a network of niche websites (25 in total). I used my initial PR and linkjuice from my strongest niche to help "jump-start" the others. I think that if you maintain the same niche and are just targetting different keywords then you should be good. My advice: keep growing your network of authority sites. You'll do just fine.