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Does Google dislike this for SEO

by JROC777
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Hey Warriors,

I recently read about how Google dislikes it when you interlink your own sites and I'm concerned I may be hurting my seo. For example if I own 5 separate websites all focused on the same market e.g. "scrap metal recycling". If I was to place a link on each site to the 4 other related sites I could get penalized because I own all 5.

Hope I`m making sense here, is this true???
#dislike #google #seo
  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    What you are saying does make sense but I wwould be interested to see the other answers. I also run a few sites that are essentially the same but in different languages and targeted to different countries but I have seen no ill effects from interlinking them. In fact I think it has helped.

    One of the first things I did was to change the links to KW anchor instead of English, German etc as it was and that had a positive effect on those KW's which I took as proof that it was a good thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anshugarg
    Originally Posted by JROC777 View Post

    Hey Warriors,

    I recently read about how Google dislikes it when you interlink your own sites and I'm concerned I may be hurting my seo. For example if I own 5 separate websites all focused on the same market e.g. "scrap metal recycling". If I was to place a link on each site to the 4 other related sites I could get penalized because I own all 5.

    Hope I`m making sense here, is this true???
    Hey, It's fine if you interlink sites that you own. However, you should follow the best practices of doing this. You should read this article- Interlinking Your Sites - Whiteboard Friday | SEOmoz this will surely help.
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  • Profile picture of the author sidexside
    The only right method that I would recommend interlinking your own websites would be to use the NO FOLLOW tag on your backlinks. This will not help boost your SEO directly but will prove to the search engines that you are not trying to cheat with your interlinking websites.
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