Using websites to help each other out

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by FingerPicker

I'm very new to this idea and I read quite a lot about blog networks and don't know if it applies to me.

So here's the situation:

I have one website. Let's say I have a website where I teach football coaches how to be a better football coach. Now I want to create another website where I teach other people how they can be better at football. I could use the first website to promote the other website and make with links etc.

Could it harm my seo if I did this? I'm not going to spam it like crazy, but I will use both websites to kind of help each other out.

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FingerPicker

That's exactly how you build a network of sites without getting slapped.

Build real sites that last for years, then piggyback (links) off each of the sites & aim to rank pages across the entire network for same/similar niche keywords.

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FingerPicker

10 years ago

Sounds good! thanks! I'll look more into how blog networks work in that case, could help me to get some nice traffic.

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whitehart

10 years ago

Picker & Yukon, I'm in exactly the same situation.

I have 10+ garden websites I've considered linking together. Some are over 2 years old, but I'm concerned about being penalized if I if link them up.

That begs a few questions on best practices:

> Do you link via the homepage?
> Is there a limit to the number of links?

My caution is due to learning about blog networks built via separate hosts and IP addresses. That probably doesn't apply in our case though

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by whitehart

Picker & Yukon, I'm in exactly the same situation.

I have 10+ garden websites I've considered linking together. Some are over 2 years old, but I'm concerned about being penalized if I if link them up.

That begs a few questions on best practices:

> Do you link via the homepage?
> Is there a limit to the number of links?

My caution is due to learning about blog networks built via separate hosts and IP addresses. That probably doesn't apply in our case though

What I do is advertise my two main sites on my smaller sites. I use plain URLs as anchor-text (ex: domain.com) & make sure both pages have the keyword in both page titles & mentioned once as plain text on both pages.

I also have a sitewide javascript banner ad on my largest site advertising my eCommerce site. I use the javascript for the sitewide ad so I don't have to worry about it messing with my SEO links & still move traffic to money pages.

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FingerPicker

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

What I do is advertise my two main sites on my smaller sites. I use plain URLs as anchor-text (ex: domain.com) & make sure both pages have the keyword in both page titles & mentioned once as plain text on both pages.

I also have a sitewide javascript banner ad on my largest site advertising my eCommerce site. I use the javascript for the sitewide ad so I don't have to worry about it messing with my SEO links & still move traffic to money pages.

So there's no messing with ip's and different providers? :-)

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jazbo

10 years ago

Depends if everyone in that network plays ball, or it becomes poison and is just a ton of reciprocal links.

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FingerPicker

10 years ago

@Whitehart, I think the problem with those networks is, is that they are built all at the same time and will be obvious to Google that they are built solely to crank each other up. That's why you need the different ip's and providers with that one

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whitehart

10 years ago

Thanks Yukon and FP, I'll experiment with a couple of domains

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iklanbarisclassified 10 years ago

Well..As much as I know..If the two websites has same IP it will not help much..Since google will know that the sites are owned by same person...This is my opinion my friend...I'm just a newbie..
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paulgl

10 years ago

Have you ever looked at the bottom of amazon.com? If not, take a gander. Then come back and tell us whether to build sites to feed off of each other.

Look at this page for another example: gasbuddy.com/Gas_Prices/California/index.aspx
The links under Popular Cities are all domains owned by gasbuddy.com
They own a zillion of them.

Wikipedia has a ton of websites as well, all interlinked, and, last time I checked,
same IP.

Paul

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megamind22

10 years ago

Google shouldn't ban your site just because of that as long as you use anchor text in your link with related keyword to the site you are promoting

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whitehart

10 years ago

Mega's right ^

It's a degree of measure.

A local business website I'm competing against is PR 3, Moz Rank 5. This company is interlinking 20+ of its websites together:

Landscaping > Decking > Tree Surgery > Etc.

The site ranks well, but it isn't #1 for any search. This case is purely anecdotal, but common sense applies = Diversify.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by whitehart

Mega's right ^

It's a degree of measure.

A local business website I'm competing against is PR 3, Moz Rank 5. This company is interlinking 20+ of its websites together:

Landscaping > Decking > Tree Surgery > Etc.

The site ranks well, but it isn't #1 for any search. This case is purely anecdotal, but common sense applies = Diversify.

I don't think anyone is suggesting to only have links from your own sites & nothing else.

Whoever your talking about with 20+ same/similar sites & not ranking anything doesn't have a clue about SEO. If they had a clue they would be ranking keywords with that many relevant sites only targeting a local niche (especially a local niche).

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whitehart

10 years ago

I cited this case study as an 'anecdotal' example of IP diversity (or lack of). Not a direct rebuttal to anyone's point.

In reference to your second point, very few local business website owners have a clue about SEO. Most rank by accident.

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