Linking between your own pages

by adamcm

Posted: 15 years ago 10 replies

Hi all,

I read something by another poster the other day that said that you can normally pick up other ideas based on the current niche you are working on. I did a bit of research today and found a bunch of lower-level keywords that I think I could make a decent site on (i.e exact match domain exists).

Another Warrior i've paid attention to in the past mentioned that he did not believe that any site you own would not provide any link juice when backlinking between other sites you own. If that is the case, are there any hosts that store your sites on their own unique IP's? Or can this only occur if you have multiple hosting accounts?

My goal was to interlink my related sites by calling them "sister" sites, but if they won't provide any link juice, i'm not sure what the point would be.

Thanks all!

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paulgl

15 years ago

No reason to not have a bunch of sites, same server, linked together.

There are too many examples to list, but google loves many, many sites
that do it.

You'd be a fool not to interlink. Why that is such a well-kept secret is beyond me.

The only reason ever to diversify servers, is if you have a ton of sites and
think maybe, just maybe, the servers will a) blow up, b) get banned.

Normal people doing normal things on normal sites with normal hosts have
nothing really to worry about.

If you want to see a live example, try texasgasprices.com. Funny, they even
advertise the fact that are owned and interlinked via gasbuddy.com. And there
is literally hundreds on that same server.

Just do a search for gas prices and see what site pops up.

Paul

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sOliver

15 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

You'd be a fool not to interlink. Why that is such a well-kept secret is beyond me.

The only reason ever to diversify servers, is if you have a ton of sites and
think maybe, just maybe, the servers will a) blow up, b) get banned.

You miss a lot here. Google does derank your site if it will notice that you interlink between 100's of sites on the same server only for PR. If they are all related, no worries Google will say nothing, but if they are not related you will get deranked.

That's why there is SEO-hosting, servers on different IP's. However, you need a seohost with different RDNS or it won't matter.

Anyway, if you want to interlink 3-4 sites, go ahead and you will get quite a nice boost. I got like 1000's of backlinks that way and it works quite well.

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AFI

15 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

These sites are related though. If you linked cowboy boots with security cameras I don't think it has that much clout.

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Roberto L 15 years ago

3-4 sites is ok, but I guess less than 3 sites with a same server is better, and there are many people who build many sites with only few pages to exchange links or link into the main site, I do not know how useful it is but more or less it is better than none. You can think about doing that if you have time and resources.
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aliva

Banned 15 years ago

If they host on different hosts then backlinks count in google pint of view otherwise counts one.

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dburk

15 years ago

Hi adamcm,

I'm sorry to say that that other Warrior you've paid attention to in the past is wrong or you may have misunderstood what he meant.

Google's algorithm doesn't treat links differently based on IPs nor domain names, and why should they? Does having links from different IPs or domain owners make your page better results for their searchers. What does this have to do with relevance?

Google is trying to deliver results that satisfy the searchers needs. If you link to other pages where it makes sense to do so you will be improving both the page where the link is placed and the page it links to.

Google does attempt to fight spamdexing, which involves a number of techniques that involve artificially manipulating PR or placing unwanted advertising messages in inappropriate places. So if you are interlinking simply for the purpose of spamming your own websites, then you are as likely to have those pages devalued on different IPs as you would having them on the same IP. Google isn't so easily fooled by such tricks.

Do you really think they are going to look at spam that originates from different IPs, domains or website owners as okay while spam on the same IPs, domains or website owners are not? Do you think Google's users like spammy sites better as long as those sites are spammed by different owners or different IPs.

Folks are just buying into a myth created by hosting companies that want to sell you on their premium priced hosting plans. There may be valid reasons to use unique IPs and they typically involve hiding your identity or affiliation with other websites, but there is no SEO advantage.

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adamcm

15 years ago

Thanks Don!

You bring up quite a few good points that I was wondering.

Right now I link between my sites using the sidebar and include each of my posts on the other site. The other thing I tend to do is within one of my posts have alink pointing to another site of mine (if they are related). Is this too much "spamming"? I just want to avoid causing any types of those issues.

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dburk

15 years ago

Originally Posted by adamcm

Hi adamcm,

If it makes sense to link then link away. But don't just link to your website's home page, bring up a topic in your posts that makes sense to link to another page and include a contextual link. This is known as deep linking. Get all of your pages ranking, not just your homepage. For an example look at wikipedia.org. Think of how much less useful it would be if only the homepage of wikipedia were linked to and ranked for the keywords targeted.

Check out this post for advice from Google on how to link your websites:
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Linking out: Often it's just applying common sense

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Tom Goodwin

15 years ago

The master when it comes to internal linking, IMHO, is mahalo.com. Of course, lots of the SEO "gurus" don't like their scraping + link farm set up, but even they can't deny that mahalo is man among boys when it comes to deep linking, both internally, and also by setting up link farms that then link back to their site.

Example of the internal deep linking in action.

How to Cook Trout

Tom

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Banned 15 years ago

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Tom Goodwin

15 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Mahalo must be doing something right, they beat out Ehow.

Ehow has 262 related pages to the keyword (trout). Mahalo has 24 pages.

I'm in 2nd place behind Ehow for one of my keywords & can't get Ehow to budge.

I'll have to do some looking around Mahalo, for some ideas.