Crosslinking - linking from old indexed domains to new ones...

[vanekpavel]

tommorow i am going to remake one my old domains. i am just thinking to add on each page of this old domain link to my new domain(which is on similar topic). Do you think if googlebot see so many links (about 25-30) from one domain to another domain it will harm me or it could help me? Thanks for your ideas..

[creative craig]

This shouldn't cause a problem, if you look at the bottom of every page of webmasterworld it has a Hosted by Westhost.com link.

That must be thousands of backlinks to westhost and they dont have any problems :)

Craig

[vanekpavel]

but that link is [westhost.com...]
and i think google doesnt count links with this sign:?...

[creative craig]

It wont hurt your site PR to have the links and the? is fine as well :)

[garylo]

I can't tell you the specifics as I don't know how it is measured but I heard of sites that were penalized for multiple pages in one site all pointing to one page at another site. I am not saying you shouldn't do it, just be careful.

[creative craig]

Also the ODP do this as they link to the about page on every page of the directory.

If there are multiple links on the same page pointing to the same site then that would cause a problem. If there is one link per page to a site/page that wouldnt be a problem.

Craig

[garylo]

Craig,

You may be right and your cases with ODP and Webmaster World are quite valid but I would still call for cautious here.

I remember a few months back (I am a "new user" but an "old lurker") when Google implemented new filters and many were penalized, someone here (or maybe it was on another forum) raised the suspicion that he was penalized due to heavy cross linking between sites, meaning, links from every page of one site all point to one page at another site.

[creative craig]

That is directed though when both sites link to each other in that way. Not just a one way link, a one way link is not cross linking, it just boosts link popularity.

I think vanekpavel is on about a one way link!

[garylo]

...a one way link is not cross linking, it just boosts link popularity.

This is what Google doesn't like. Trying to artificially boost the PR of one page by employing many other pages all controlled by the same site owner.

[creative craig]

all controlled by the same site owner.

How is Google to know who a site owner is and if they onw the site that its linking to, like in the case of webmasterworld and westhost?

I had a 600+ page with a link on every page back to my own personal site, it ran this way for over a year with no problems.

[garylo]

How is Google to know who a site owner is and if they own the site that its linking to

This is easy, when they suspect they can check WhoIs.

I had a 600+ page with a link on every page back to my own personal site, it ran this way for over a year with no problems

Well, I may be wrong... or you may have been lucky:-)

I wouldn't do it anyway, if Google don't penalyze it now, he may be doing it in the future. I am aiming at long range success over short time gains. I try to avoid anything that even smells spam. And this strategy sure smells like spam to me.

[creative craig]

Google dont check the Whois database unless they ban a site by hand I would have thought, this hardly ever happens as Googleguy has said. They just let the algo do all the work :)

Craig