Cross-site Linking

[khawe]

My company has dozens of websites, most related in some way or another. I am working a cross-site linking strategy and was wondering if anyone knew of a service that would analysis various sites and make linking / keyword recommendations?

[weblaunchphxx]

My company has dozens of websites, most related in some way or another. I am working a cross-site linking strategy and was wondering if anyone knew of a service that would analysis various sites and make linking / keyword recommendations?

This startegy can effect the page rank and little bit dangerous for your sites.It is called circle linking.

If the sites that will be linked together are owned by the same person or company, there are basics guidelines to follow:

@Unique Content - this one is such a basic "no brainer" that it shouldn't even have to be mentioned, but it is the most often forgotten. If you are going to link two sites together, they must each have unique content. The content may be similar in theme and compliment each other but it must not be duplicated.

@Different IP addresses - this isn't a "must do" but it is a "should do" if possible. Having two sites that link to each other that are on the same IP address will not cause you a penalty with the search engines but for safe measure you should consider having them on different IP addresses.

@Humans first - when considering to link two or more sites together, make sure you are doing it for the right reason: for the human visitor. You want to enhance the users' experience by giving them options to visit other sites that will be useful to them. If you are linking the sites together for Page Rank purposes, you are doing it for the wrong reason.

@Multiple Sites - you don't want to create multiple sites just for the purpose of linking them all together. This will only create a suspicious-looking link ring that will be of no benefit to the user, especially if the sites do not contain quality content. Each site should have a sufficient amount of links coming into them from independent sites.

[catanich]

What you are about to trigger is Google's Cross Linking penalty or Subnet linking penalty. This is considered "Link Spamming" by Google. Do not do this.

If you still want to do this then each site must be on seperate IP addresses where the Subdomain IP is different (i.e. seperate web hosts for each site).

Shared hosting concepts are bad for any linking concept.

Then, when you finally get each site on different IP addresses/hosts, Google with then hit you with a reciprocal link penality. They can easly see that site B is cross linked with site B.

Then you will try site A linked to site B that is linked to sit C that is linked to site A. This is circular linking and Google knows about this too.

There are ways to obtain links using SEO concepts but not this way.

[phoebe]

Excessive Cross or having a linking sites you own together in multiple ways is a violation which is easy to spot and easy to penalized. Sooner or later search engines specially google might found out about your strategy and might get penalized or blacklist your site..:tape2:

[levipage]

What if you have a legitimate purpose to link two related sites? I'd rather hide the link and not have to deal with the stress of Google. I see some people using drop down combos, then doing a redirect.... Does anyone have a recommended method to cross link sites and hide the fact that they are linked?

[aira]

it may work for quite some time but it's too risky for a site to 'hide' the links and/or other techniques for manipulation purposes. Keep in mind that SEs are too wise to be tricked..

[amelia]

i think cross site linking is very risky and dangerous, the way that it hide links :)

[Kaya]

I've tried this but haven't seen much of a result.

[seo_india]

My company has dozens of websites, most related in some way or another. I am working a cross-site linking strategy and was wondering if anyone knew of a service that would analysis various sites and make linking / keyword recommendations?

The content on these networked websites should be unique otherwise your website could get entagled in duplicate penalty issues.

[poddster]

My company has dozens of websites, most related in some way or another. I am working a cross-site linking strategy and was wondering if anyone knew of a service that would analysis various sites and make linking / keyword recommendations?

I know of a company that offers this service; but am not sure if they have a software that does it.

[snowbird]

I would avoid cross linking sites. While it may avoid algo detection today, six months from now it might not. And if all the sites lost their rankings, someone could get fired!

[dock]

My company has dozens of websites, most related in some way or another. I am working a cross-site linking strategy and was wondering if anyone knew of a service that would analysis various sites and make linking / keyword recommendations?

You should not have a problem.

The better way is to go have a directory(specific field) for all your sites. that way they all are linked to each other.
And you are not doing anything wrong.

:)

[aira]

just avoid cross site linking and do natural link building instead to avoid penalization

[inertia]

Are all your sites hosted on the same server/IP? If yes then you are risking a slap round the chops from Google. I would only cross link sites if it felt right from a customer point of view and if the content was relevant.
I wouldn't worry about this too much as long as you continue building decent links for each site as well.