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I own five domains about hockey. One is for playing hockey, one is for equipment, one for news, and one for graphics. The fifth domain simply links them all together. I have several links to 2 of these 5 domains which represent the ones are currently building a lot of content on. 2 of thehe other 3 have fewer links coming in (if any) but have some legitimate content. The fifth domain that links them all together is just a one page domain with the four logos of the sites, and the plans for it are not yet decided.
The sites are all heavily interlinked, but the reason for the sites being different domains is purely content driven. All the themes are different and no content is duplicated.
My question is - will have several sites like this that are interlinked trigger google's link farm alarms, and if so does that seem right?
How can I prevent this from happening aside from making one website which makes the sites all very messy.
Tim
I think you are fine as long as the content is sufficently different. The detection of interlinked sites isn't as programmed as you'd think. Multiple domains are so wide spread, that if they tried to program a solution, it would cast a wide net and get too many innocent sites setup that way.
As long as the sites can stand up to a hand inspection, you don't have a thing to worry about. Go back to building content and get on with the show.
Only complaint about the board is its starting to become as addicting as my Blackberry which I only recently weaned myself off of.
Tim
We have ended up with a few domains which interlink which were initially directories of the one domain. But the site got too big and general, so we put say our travel pages on one domain, our academic/research type stuff on another, and news/columns on another, with a fair bit of interlinking as the general broad topic is the same (how to do business in a certain region e.g. culture tips, news, opinion columns, travel tips, research articles etc). No content at all is in common apart from occassional small paras where php includes and RSS delivers "recently updated" links and small summaries to other sites.
There was a large degree of concern here about a year ago about interlinking penalties, even if content was not duplicated. Do you think there is now less to worry about in the course of time and experience?
Each site has some incoming links in common from external sites, but very few. Each site now has at least 90% uniqiue links (they only go to one of our sites) from external sites (around 5,000, 2000, and 800 respectively).
We took down a heap of interlinks as we were very worried, possibly decreasing the usefulness of our sites as a whole for readers. Maybe we could start putting a few back in?
In fact we now dont have any links from our corporate site to these sites though there are quite a few incoming from them. We just refer to them by name without a hyperlink. We would like however to "show off" on our corporate site that our company owns and runs these sites.
