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Linking All My sites in The Footer on Homepage - Good Idea ?

by Ducksauce
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Hi,

If I have 10 sites in the same niche, what will happen if I put a link to the other 9 on the footer of the home page of each one?

Does Google call this un-natural links?? Will Google slap me ?

Any advice is good thanks.
#footer #good #homepage #idea #linking #sites
  • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
    This isn't good on several levels.

    From a usability view point, you're sending visitors to other sites which will be quite confusing for them even if you own each site. Definitely not a good sales tactic in my opinion.

    You're diluting page rank flow to the internal pages of your site.

    You're clearly connecting your sites which limits some SEO strategies from being implemented where you want to keep your money sites separate.

    And you've basically just told Google that you have a link network you're using which they frown upon and could open yourself up to a penalty. Probably not because it's such a small network but I do think you're flirting with danger for no real benefit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    I'd stay away from footer linking... For sure!
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOtraveler
    Definitely a bad idea.
    First of all these links make no sense for users. 9 links to websites on the footer is too much. Add some other links that are usually situated there (contact, about, etc) and you'll get a huge spam footer with lots of useless information.
    Basically, as LloydMS said, it is like playing with fire. The link network is small, but Google will detect it sooner or later. The question is when it happens and how severe the penalty will be.
    Important question is: what is your goal here? What do you want to get by these footer links?
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  • Profile picture of the author kumarvijay
    I don't think this is good idea, i will be a bad experience for your website visitors , because you have 10 sites with same niche ,it means same bunch of information on ten different site ,so it doesn't have any mean.
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