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Is it wise to link all your sites together?

by Viper420
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Let's say I have twenty sites just selling pills, for example, one site on hangover pills, another on weight loss pills, viagra pills, sleeping pills, etc.

Seeing how they all sell pills, are they related? and should I link all the sites together, or will google see that they are all coming from one webmaster tools account and penalize me for creating a link network?

Thanks in advance for commenting
#link #sites #wise
  • Profile picture of the author SherlynCook
    I still use sitewide links. They do not harm you always. It's just that they may be ignored or given little weightage. The sitewide links will hurt you only when they are paid links. Google is identifying paid links through multiple signals and then it is affecting them. Search engines are very smart and they won't mistake in recognizing an open relationship between two co-owned websites for paid links.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    I link all my same niche sites to each other, it doesn't make any sense not to link same niche sites.

    I know this is an SEO forum & everyone gets caught up in the what will Google think questions, but sometimes you just have to do what makes sense & linking same niche sites does make sense for traffic (doesn't matter who owns the sites).
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
    Banned
    As long as they are in the same niche you can link them together yes.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      They don't have to be same niche in the true sense of the word.
      Big sites have BIG online empires.
      zap2it, go, wikipedia, amazon, ebay, etc. etc. etc.....all have
      zillions of sites, all interlinked. Same niche? Not really. go.com
      has disney and espn. Amazon has alexa, soap.com, digital photography
      at dpreview.com, boxofficemojo, and many, MANY others. All interlinked.

      I've been using amazon's online empire as a model for years.

      You don't think paypal.com links to ebay.com? And vice versa?
      Don't tell me they're in the same niche. But ebay wants people to
      use paypal....paypal wants people to shop at ebay...hmmmm....
      so if I have a site on college students....why not encourage them to
      check out my music site? B I N G O!

      If people only knew: Create your own online empire.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author Viper420
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        They don't have to be same niche in the true sense of the word.
        Big sites have BIG online empires.
        zap2it, go, wikipedia, amazon, ebay, etc. etc. etc.....all have
        zillions of sites, all interlinked. Same niche? Not really. go.com
        has disney and espn. Amazon has alexa, soap.com, digital photography
        at dpreview.com, boxofficemojo, and many, MANY others. All interlinked.

        I've been using amazon's online empire as a model for years.

        You don't think paypal.com links to ebay.com? And vice versa?
        Don't tell me they're in the same niche. But ebay wants people to
        use paypal....paypal wants people to shop at ebay...hmmmm....
        so if I have a site on college students....why not encourage them to
        check out my music site? B I N G O!

        If people only knew: Create your own online empire.

        Paul
        Thanks for the comment Paul, I have a friend who links all his sites together and he's doing really well, getting into SEO late in the game myself, I'm trying to play it safe, but most of my sites are health oriented anyway, so it makes sense to link them all together, thanks for the advice!
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
        Banned
        Even Amazon is sending IMDB traffic to same niche products they're selling on Amazon. It wouldn't serve any purpose for Amazon to send IMDB traffic to an Amazon page selling lawnmowers (just an example). They still keep the product they're selling matched up with targeted traffic. All Amazon uses IMDB for is a traffic source to make sales on Amazon.

        I have no doubts IMDB traffic following those Amazon links will still buy irrelevant products on Amazon, but they only followed those Amazon links at the bottom of the IMDB movie description because it's relevant to their original search that they most likely did before they first landed on the IMDB page. The ultimate goal in this case (IMDB) is to move traffic to Amazon, then hammer them with best selling products & schmooze them with user reviews.







        Just sending traffic to a random site where traffic has no interest in that 2nd site isn't a useful way to manage traffic IMO, when you could be sending the same already proven niche traffic to a relevant call to action (product, service, optin, etc...).
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        • Profile picture of the author Viper420
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          Even Amazon is sending IMDB traffic to same niche products they're selling on Amazon. It wouldn't serve any purpose for Amazon to send IMDB traffic to an Amazon page selling lawnmowers (just an example). They still keep the product they're selling matched up with targeted traffic. All Amazon uses IMDB for is a traffic source to make sales on Amazon.

          I have no doubts IMDB traffic following those Amazon links will still buy irrelevant products on Amazon, but they only followed those Amazon links at the bottom of the IMDB movie description because it's relevant to their original search that they most likely did before they first landed on the IMDB page. The ultimate goal in this case (IMDB) is to move traffic to Amazon, then hammer them with best selling products & schmooze them with user reviews.







          Just sending traffic to a random site where traffic has no interest in that 2nd site isn't a useful way to manage traffic IMO, when you could be sending the same already proven niche traffic to a relevant call to action (product, service, optin, etc...).
          Thanks yukon for adding a screenshot, how to you recommend to link all my niche sites together? Hide the urls in the coding of a random page? I suck at coding btw
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  • Profile picture of the author ilikepie
    @Viper420
    Never hide URLs if you get caught with that you will get punished relevant or not relevant URL.

    Just make sure they are niche related (relevant) and have some value to each other. It make no sense to link a website about cars to one which is about e.g. vegetarian recipes.

    Use common sense/logic and you will be okay.
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