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No cheat No spam and at the top!
Is this OK with google? Linking between my seperate domains.
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healthgal
No, most domains use name based hosting so Google wouldn't penalise for that IMO.
On the other hand, there have been cases where a search engine has penalised all domains hosted on a particular IP or block of IPs that they have identified with spam.
healthgal:
I list all my sites with links to each site at the bottom
If you link each of the sites from each of the sites, then you begin to sound very much like the people who got automatic penalities last Winter.
How should I link them? I would hate to lose 1 1/2 work because of penalties.
healthgal
Ciml, thanks for the comment. So it sounds like it's a problem linking between my sites. Any suggestions?
So if you have a bunch of sites and you are linking them for the sole purpose of increasing your inbound links and PR Google will probably be able to catch you one day and it may be soon.
On the same note Googlebot is getting smarter all time. If you have a legitimate reason to link your sites together that increases the overall relevancy of the index then you can probably do it even on the same IP.
It's all about relevancy. You have to think to yourself "Is putting this link here going to help my users?" If not you need to figure out a way to add the link in a useful manner.
This thinking will not normally result in heavy linking of sites but does result in links that are in useful, relevant positions. What makes Google number 1 is they provide SERPs that are good for the user so if you design for the user you should rise to the top as Google gets smarter.
My advice is to take a good look at your linking strategy and start writing some link request letters for some outside links.
That's exactly the point when making internal links on one website and between several websites on one domain. I have been doing it very much right from the beginning, but all my internal links are natural and relevant and I have never been penalized for them.
Really? I don't agree at all. ALL my sites are on virtual IPs. If AV or any other SE persecuted solely against this they would be chopping some of the best quality sites on the whole web. It doesn't happen and can't happen so long as they want to rank on quality.
>> I'm going to lease a server and put all my Domains on <<
I wouldn't if I were you...at least if you link them together.
To be honest, it's no longer worth the short cut of creating a stack of sites and cross linking. It's history. Worked a few years ago but times have changed. Of course I comment on the basis that you actually want to sleep at night!
On the same note Googlebot is getting smarter all time. If you have a legitimate reason to link your sites together that increases the overall relevancy of the index then you can probably do it even on the same IP.
If (as some of us suspect) Google favors large sites that have plenty of content, it may be wiser not to divide a site's content among 20 or 30 domains.
Granted, there's no hard proof that Google thinks a 1,000-page site deserves more clout than ten 100-page sites or 100 ten-page sites. But it stands to reason, because (1) a large site is more likely to be an authoritive source of information, and (2) favoring large, single-domain sites over multiple small sites would discourage "domain spam."
I see no evidence at all Google is doing this. My guess is this is just a byproduct of the fact that if I put up a 1,000 psge site with lots of content, it is a lot more likely people will end up linking to it then a 10 page site with little content. The Google algo definitely favors sites that get a lot of links.
Unfortunately, if a penalty hits all is lost, so it pays t make efforts to remedy anything questionable and start on establishing legitimacy within safe bounds.
The best thing is to link very judiciously between your own sites (it can be done) and avoid any appearance of a "closed circle" linking structure. Get links from independent sites unrelated to your own, and if necessary broaden the scope of the sites to encourage more inbound links. Plus - link out to quality sites that would be good resources for site visitors.
Another point to look at is that if the sites are very related by topic or subject matter, watch out for obvious similarities in design and make sure text and content are unique, different enough to avoid appearance of duplication. If the sites are in a market that's at all competitive, if you get rankings reasonably close to the top, you'll be coming under close scrutiny from competitors. Sometimes it depends on how competitive the particular market is what the bounds of safety are.
Same IP hosting is OK (there was a free host banned from AV at one time, for a fact), but in cases where several sites are concerned with a degree of cross-linking and similarity, it could be just another factor to consider.
Did you guys and spiders know that on the rules of infospider says no to virtual domains now?
I don't see how any engine can possibly do this and still spider the whole web. There simply are not enough IP adresses to go around. Virtual domains are a necessity.
With that said I am not exactly ready to endorse hosting all ones sites on the same IP if there is any sort of linking stragegy.
This has not been my experience. I have one site that has a a virtual IP address. I just did a spot check in Altavista, and all of my pages I checked that were more than a month old were in the index, including some in the first page of results.
The IP penalty is a myth. FAST is on the record, in writing, saying that it penalizes for IP sharing if you share with a bad neighborhood.....total junk...it doesn't!
Altavista...never seen anything definitive that it penalizes for sharing IP, but in practice it doesn't.
As for the number of pages on a site, it is mainly irrelevant to PR. Amazon.com has over 3 million pages and a low PR for most of its pages.
It is possible to engineer a slightly better PR with a good internal linking structure....but this is based upon site design more than number of pages.;)
