Loose Affiliation

Will G penalize one-way links?

[poet]

I am a small press book publisher. I have a catalogue-shopping cart on one db-driven site. (I need to maintain this site, because it gets excellent G rankings and because it has other publishing industry-specific features that I want to keep.)

And now I am creating a content-rich site with numerous online magazines. This second site also has its own catalogue and shopping cart.

Will G penalize me for a loose affiliation if Site #1 links to Site #2?

I do not need to link Site #2 back to Site #1.

[inbound]

Is the information on site2 very different from site1? If not, could you not have site2 as part of site1? (on the same domain but maybe in a directory just off root.

It would be daft to start over if you have a place where the new site can call home that is already well ranked by google, could also get interest from regular visitors to site 1.

Just a thought.

[buckworks]

There's no penalty for sensible cross-linking between (or within) your own sites. If the links you're envisioning would pass the test, "Would this make sense to a human visitor?" you'll be okay.

Just remember that Google is not as easily impressed these days if you have lots of links coming from one source, or a limited number of sources.You'll need to cultivate links from a variety of sites besides your own, the more the better.

[MHes]

>Will G penalize me for a loose affiliation if Site #1 links to Site #2?

Not penalize so much as ignore Site #2 if the the two sites are within the same search results.

[prairie]

Not penalize so much as ignore Site #2 if the the two sites are within the same search results.

Is this to say that if site A links heavily to site B, site A risks falling out of the SERPs and having any positive effect on determining the relevance of site B to a specific term?

[scoreman]

Poet, are the two book catalogs/databases the same? If so, as someone else mentioned, G might ignore one or the other as duplicate content. If the content is not the same, why not link between the two sites on related terms/books/etc.? Good luck.

[MHes]

prairie - Not always, I am assuming that the two sites will be on the same ip, in which case I think google will ignore the links from one site to another and also only choose one from that ip address, if both appear in a set of results.

[onebaldguy]

G can (and has) penalized sites just for being owned by the same company - even if they are on different IP and do not cross-link.

This is very rare, but does happen. If you are not focusing on a highly monetized keyword, then I would not worry about it. Also, it is very unlikely that linking like that could ever hurt you. It is possible G could just devalue the links, but I doubt it could ever have a large negative affect as long as you are doing it with the correct intentions.

[prairie]

Poet (et al), I started a thread at [webmasterworld.com...] which perhaps gives clues as to what might happen.

Sites I refer to in that example are hosted in two different countries.

Prairie.

[Nuttakorn]

If I have many website for hotel reservations which are separate domain by hotels sorting by city like new york hotels, the content , I make sure that it unique but I host in the same hosting. Is this issue will be the problem?