Crosslinking and Google

How should multiple sites link?

[funandgames]

One of my customers has several sites about different topics in her niche. Right now she links to every other site from every single page from every site. Is this overdone and spammy? If so, what links should be removed? Will this hurt her PR? I ma a designer and not really an SEO. What is a the best way to crosslink?

[funandgames]

Does anyone have experience with mininets or multiple web sites or am I the only one?

[webnewton]

I've some great experiences here! :>)

Better you remove the crosslinking. Your sites can be penalised as and when they're identified as affilaite sites on the same topic. Hiltop algorithm serves the purpose for google.

Affiliate sites are defined as follows –

Pages that originate from the same domain (www.ibm.com, www.ibm.com/us/, products.ibm.com, solutions.ibm.com etc.)

Pages that originate from the same domains but with different top level and second level suffixes (like www.ibm.com, www.ibm.co.uk, www.ibm.co.jp etc.)

Pages that originate from neighborhood IPs (first 3 common octet in the IP number like 66.165.238.**** is common)

Pages that originate from affiliate of affiliates (if www.abc.com is hosted on the same IP octet as www.ibm.com, then www.abc.com is an affiliate of www.ibm.co.uk even if they are on a different IP series)

[glengara]

In both Hilltop and LocalRank G introduced the concept of pages being discounted due to "affiliation".

The specifics were, first the pages had to be returned for a particular search query, they were then checked for "affiliation" as described by Webnewton, with any pages deemed affiliated being removed from the calculations.

Quite a narrow view of "affiliation" in that the commonality of topic was the primary factor.

It's just a hunch, but I suspect that increasingly the concept of "affiliation" will widen, with any linking pattern that resembles a "link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank" having a good chance of being pinged as "affiliated".

*What is a the best way to crosslink?*

IMO, from within content relevant to your site and topical to your links....

[experienced]

Hi,

one of my client alos have a couple of sites hosted on different servers, and sites hosted on same server are not linked but with the other. On the other hand designing company site is also hosted on the same server and that is linked with every site, hosted on the same and other server. Do you think this may be a cause of any probs or this is fine.

1 server- 4 site, a,b,c,d
2 server - 4 site, e,f,g,h
3 server - 2 site, i,j,k

a,b,c,d, are not linked with each other
e,f,g,h, are not linked with each other
i,j, are not linked with each other BUT
k is linked with every site which is the site of hosting designing and development company.

Do u think is there anything wrong

Exp...

[Nuttakorn]

Should I crosslinking between my website with one-way link or two-way link? I have seperate domains into many domain which domain is different on content but it is the same theme. For example, I have New York Hotels website, Miami Hotels, Chicago Hotels , etc. Those of them I seperate into each domains. What do you think about that?

[bts111]

Go for your life, but never link back.

Keep it going in a straight line.

Build 1 - link to 2.

Build up 2. Then stop the links from 1.

You can all work out the rest.

It works a treat ; )

[funandgames]

Has anyone heard of Revenge of the Mininet by Mike Campbell? If so, does this linking strategy work for Google for 'affiliated' sites and networks (mininets)? I get affiliated sites confused with affiliate programs.