Linking to your own sites legal?

[Undercovercash]

I have around 100 Blogs ranging from pr1-pr5 and I am thinking about using them as an seo tool to link to my other money sites.

How does google feel about this?

I heard about some people getting deindexed because they interlinked their sites?

[OnlineBizFlash]

Google probably doesn't know that all the sites linking back and forth are your sites, nor do their algorithms really care, as far as I know. What matters is that the backlinks are from sites that have similar content. Otherwise they are pretty useless for SEO purposes, as far as I know. It's not the quantity of backlinks; it's the quality and relevance.

My guess is that the de-indexing is happening to some people because they create a whole bunch of irrelevant backlinks all at once. I have read that building too many backlinks in too short a time is a red flag to Google that can get you de-indexed quickly. But somehow the algorithms tend to distinguish relevant linking from linking just to get a higher placement on the SERPs. Some situations of quick backlinking must be allowed to go through without damage to ranking though, seeing as how when a news story goes viral, tons of people link to it from Facebook, their blogs, Twitter, etc.

[miroskala]

Originally Posted by Undercovercash

I have around 100 Blogs ranging from pr1-pr5 and I am thinking about using them as an seo tool to link to my other money sites.

How does google feel about this?

I heard about some people getting deindexed because they interlinked their sites?

Google will just see the backlinks to your site, which is always a plus as long as you don't use some black hat techniques like link farms etc. Google won't either recognize if the blog is yours or not.

If you want to be safe anyway, with this amount of blogs I would recommend to link from just a few blogs to your money sites (maybe from the ones with highest PR) and interlink all the blogs (create a backling wheel).

Hope this helps

Miro

[Undercovercash]

Thanks for your response, but I would like information from someone who has experience with this.

Links that are unrelated to your niche are not useless and can have really good seo value. Furthermore it Takes ALOT of spammy and continious backlinking to get your sites deindexed by google.

I just want to know whether or not google see this as gaming the system, as it is very easy for them to see the links are coming from the same owner of sites.

[Undercovercash]

Thanks miroskala.

Any other opinions on this`?

[jacked]

You won't be deindexed as long as you don't do something way overboard. And there is a pretty good chance google may find out they are your blogs, are they hosted on the same IP?

[hilhilginger]

Originally Posted by Undercovercash

Any other opinions on this`?

Adding to that the linking description is so important. It should be done with unique anchor text and description.

[Undercovercash]

Yep Same IP.

[Hortensia]

It would be a good idea to spread some of your blogs over different ( 7 or so ) hosts in different locations. Diversify!

I still find 'Revenge of the mininet' a very good read on this subject. Michael Campbell explains very well how linkwheels work and why they will never get out of fashion, no matter what Google does. ( If you stick by a few rules )

Cheers,
JanPaul

[Undercovercash]

Hi Hortensia

COuld you please tell me how I can spread them out over different IPS?

[mrgee]

Originally Posted by Undercovercash

Hi Hortensia

COuld you please tell me how I can spread them out over different IPS?

You need different hosting accounts

[Dr.faizan]

Godaddy has monthly packages of $8/month so better if all your sites makes good enough money it is good idea to get seperate hosting account for all the sites and then you can interlink all the sites.

[rain21]

I think it won't be a problem as long as you link sites with the same niche. Just don't link to spam sites and splogs.

[enderZ]

Originally Posted by Undercovercash

Thanks for your response, but I would like information from someone who has experience with this.

Links that are unrelated to your niche are not useless and can have really good seo value. Furthermore it Takes ALOT of spammy and continious backlinking to get your sites deindexed by google.

I just want to know whether or not google see this as gaming the system, as it is very easy for them to see the links are coming from the same owner of sites.

I have "first hand" experience and I can tell you for sure, if you'll over do it all your network will get deindexed.

I went for the extreme one time and got 400 sites deindexed (yeap it hurt). But, its only cause I over did it.

If you'll do it "gently" and in a smart fashion you'll be ok. But, keep in mind, the big G does watch...

[paulgl]

There sure is a lot of complete nonsense posts here.

Google could care less if you interlink GOOD sites with
the same IP. Why should they? A good site is a good site.
has nothing to do with anything. Even the same niche.
You'd be a fool not to. Why this is such a big secret has
always been beyond me.

Doing bad things is different. Interlinking is not bad. Never.
No matter how may sites you have. No matter if they are
the same niche, different niche, whatever niche. A good site
is a good site. A link is a link is a link.

So much nonsense.

Wikipedia has each and every wiki they run under the same IP.
All interlinked. They have dozens of different wikithis.org domains.
Google loves wiki.

Gasbuddy has a Brazilian number of sites, same niche, all interlinked,
all same IP. Google loves gasbuddy. gasbuddy has 284 domains on
the same IP, all interlinked.

Amazon has many.

Icanhazcheezburger does the same thing.

Target.com is another huge example.

How about the whole go.com network? The epitome of
interlinking an empire.

Why on earth would you not do the same thing?!?!?!?!?!?!

Silly to have 7 hosting accounts with godaddy. Downright
ridiculous.

In fact, you want to diversify. But not because of IP. You
want to diversify in case one host goes belly up, goes down, gets
slapped, whatever. So if you were worried you have ONE site
on godaddy. One site on another, or maybe mix and match up
a few dozen others.

But that has nothing to do with interlinking on the same IP.

Paul

[enderZ]

Originally Posted by paulgl

There sure is a lot of complete nonsense posts here.

Google could care less if you interlink GOOD sites with
the same IP. Why should they? A good site is a good site.
has nothing to do with anything. Even the same niche.
You'd be a fool not to. Why this is such a big secret has
always been beyond me.

Doing bad things is different. Interlinking is not bad. Never.
No matter how may sites you have. No matter if they are
the same niche, different niche, whatever niche. A good site
is a good site. A link is a link is a link.

So much nonsense.

Wikipedia has each and every wiki they run under the same IP.
All interlinked. They have dozens of different wikithis.org domains.
Google loves wiki.

Gasbuddy has a Brazilian number of sites, same niche, all interlinked,
all same IP. Google loves gasbuddy. gasbuddy has 284 domains on
the same IP, all interlinked.

Amazon has many.

Icanhazcheezburger does the same thing.

Target.com is another huge example.

How about the whole go.com network? The epitome of
interlinking an empire.

Why on earth would you not do the same thing?!?!?!?!?!?!

Silly to have 7 hosting accounts with godaddy. Downright
ridiculous.

In fact, you want to diversify. But not because of IP. You
want to diversify in case one host goes belly up, goes down, gets
slapped, whatever. So if you were worried you have ONE site
on godaddy. One site on another, or maybe mix and match up
a few dozen others.

But that has nothing to do with interlinking on the same IP.

Paul

Do you remember when the best student could do things that if you did half of it you would be expelled?

Sure Amazon and other bunch of other authorative sites can do stuff that would be ok, it doesn't mean that when us commoners do the same we get off the same way.

What will happen if we blast 100K profile links at amazon? nothing. What would happen if we do it to a weak 5 pages 1 years old site?

I had my 400 sites interlinked, all unique content, all 3-10 pages, all less than 1 years old, all deindexed in the same day after few months after the interlinking.

I did the same for several hundreds sites if mine, same charactaristics (more or less) but didn't interlinked ALL of them, but only some of them, also built OTHER backlinks, they are alive and happy till this day.

[paulgl]

Maybe you missed the whole point. If you are doing good things,
there is no problem.

Sites that get de-indexed get de-indexed because of what
the sites do. Has nothing to do with interlinking. Nothing.

But, people swallow the myth and make some hosts rich.

I'd rather be spending my money elsewhere.

Paul

[jacked]

Interlinking is risky and I have read of way too many horror stories to do it. It isn't a matter of the actual interlinking, but if google see's one of your sites as spam it will de-index it and having other sites interlinked to it on the same IP will cause them to check those out as well. If you believe EACH of your sites has quality content then go for it, but I wouldn't risk it. Its not to hard to build quality links outside your own sites.

[paulgl]

You obviously read nothing here.

There is nothing risky at all.

The risk is doing bad things.

The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous.

Horror stories of from people who have sites that
break rules.

Interlinking is one of the FINEST things you can do.

Craigslist, ebay are just 2 more examples of sites
that have a gazillion domains on the same server,
all interlinked.

The risk is pure fantasy, but makes hosting and sellers
rich. If only people really put their money on useful things.

Here's the nail in the coffin. Don't ever, ever, ever do
a subdomain and interlink to the main domain. Because
subdomains are considered different unique domains.

I guess digitalpoint did not get the memo with forums.digitalpoint.com
and tools.digitalpoint.com, among many others there.

Paul

[Themeplated]

Legal is the wrong word. Good practice would probably be more fitting, and yes it's fitting, but not if you do it in a stupid manner.

Take for instance, the company Envato. They have their hands in many pies all across the web design world, and interlink all of their websites. They do it well, and relevancy flows through so it's fine.

However, if you have one blog about dating, and another about auto insurance and yet another about spyware removal, then no, that would be retarded.

[32paul52]

Lots of opinions here....Here is a couple of things to think of:

1. Are the only links to site coming from domains on the same IP - doesnt lok natural
2. Webmasters - (who understand Google) link all of the sites they create back to them- all off topic, all on the same IP...


Here is what I would do- do a few articles,(10 or so) put them in EZA -create a few links to one site.

then use that site to have a few links to your other sites, and also not related sites wikipedia, authoritys etc

May add in Automatic back link creator, which helps you creat more content and backlinks+ plus outgoing links to differen IPs

Mix it up- actually looks real.....

[alcymart]

I haven't had any problem linking my sites together, but keep in mind their all relevant. In fact, my rankings in SERP's went up since linking them.

Bernard

[Chris Sweeney]

Originally Posted by paulgl

There sure is a lot of complete nonsense posts here.

Google could care less if you interlink GOOD sites with
the same IP. Why should they? A good site is a good site.
has nothing to do with anything. Even the same niche.
You'd be a fool not to. Why this is such a big secret has
always been beyond me.

Doing bad things is different. Interlinking is not bad. Never.
No matter how may sites you have. No matter if they are
the same niche, different niche, whatever niche. A good site
is a good site. A link is a link is a link.

So much nonsense.

Wikipedia has each and every wiki they run under the same IP.
All interlinked. They have dozens of different wikithis.org domains.
Google loves wiki.

Gasbuddy has a Brazilian number of sites, same niche, all interlinked,
all same IP. Google loves gasbuddy. gasbuddy has 284 domains on
the same IP, all interlinked.

Amazon has many.

Icanhazcheezburger does the same thing.

Target.com is another huge example.

How about the whole go.com network? The epitome of
interlinking an empire.

Why on earth would you not do the same thing?!?!?!?!?!?!

Silly to have 7 hosting accounts with godaddy. Downright
ridiculous.

In fact, you want to diversify. But not because of IP. You
want to diversify in case one host goes belly up, goes down, gets
slapped, whatever. So if you were worried you have ONE site
on godaddy. One site on another, or maybe mix and match up
a few dozen others.

But that has nothing to do with interlinking on the same IP.

Paul

So do you interlink your irrelevant sites together? And have you been doing it for a while with no penalty?