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Doorway pages: If you have alot of pages with pur content + 1 picture and only on link back to the main site (still on the same domain/IP) will this be a doorway page, they all have a link pointing them also. I hope its ok, thats the only way I can do that, but it must be because it is on the same domain/IP right?
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P.s I replyed to this topic on a search I made, then I expected it to get on top in the Google news so I could get some replys, but nob.
this is from ciml
Yes heini, I should probably explain what I mean there. As I dig myself deeper and deeper into the hole of looking like I'm telling people they should do this, I want to be clear that this is very much my personal take; I do not advise people to do this, nor do I advise people not to. We each have to set our own safety margin.
'Cross linking' is left purposely vague by Google. First the easy part...Even with less than a half dozen domains, all linking to each other, I've seen people get PR0 and I'm 99% sure of cause and effect. Every hub and spoke relationship I’ve seen has no PR problem from it, even with plenty more than 50 domains.
In the quote above, I'm only describing hub and spoke between two sites. It's a common feature of link relationships and it's not a common feature of PR0 sites, or at least those I've looked into.
The hard question, for me, is where the domains come into this. It is safe to have heavy crosslinking within one domain (i.e. fully qualified domain name, not counting a.domain.com and b.domain.com as the same), as the ubiquitous navbar demonstrates. But not several domains. This gets away from the page based nature of Google, but that was always a possibility (they cluster results by domain anyway).
As far as I can tell, heavy cross linking between just two fully qualified domains isn't a problem, but I get nervous about that and wouldn't want to go as far as to write "Marcia, that sounds OK as far as Google's been up until now", even though I'm thinking it.
I've often read advice about getting links from sites outside the collection. Even if it's not "the PR0 cure" (I don't think it is) it's sensible for several reasons.
martinbuster, I'm wary about saying so, but I don't see a real problem with that so far, if each site links back to just one. I would be very afraid to have more than two domains for different languages linking all to each other. That's a pity, but we need to be aware of these things.
heni:
> I somehow still visualize the whole problem as maps of the web, where isolated closed rings of sites are easily recognizable.
Nicely said. For 'sites', it seems that we can read 'domains'; so far at least.
As heini and Nick said, it's not about getting more PR. Heavy cross linking is, in my opinion, a poor use of PageRank.
