LINKS pages

can be dangerous?

[dario]

Hi-
I have a .com and 5 country domains, in each domain I have a link page with a link to the other domains, can it be dangerous? Can I have a penalty coz this? a PR0 would kill me.
thx!
Dario

[ciml]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, dario.
(Make sure to read paynt's welcome post [webmasterworld.com])

People don't seem to be picking up fresh PageRank penalties for cross-linking their otherwise clean sites to the same extent that they used to (maybe just because less people do it?), but the approach you describe was a very clear trend in the 'PR0 penalties' earlier this year.

If you search this site [searchengineworld.com] for PR0 then you'll find a lot of experiences regarding it, but be warned that hard facts about Google penalties are rare.

[rogerd]

Dario, in my opinion the risks involved may depend on the whole linkage picture. If these sites have few external links beyond your group, the risk is higher. If some or all of the sites have plenty of outside links, the interlinks should be less risky.

[jayq]

yeah - if you are making a links page make sure that they are not all just your links - don't be greedy trade with some folks :-) you should be ok then

[TWhalen]

I wouldnt worry about it.
Currently, I am working on 7 websites - all related - and all 7 have links to all 7 other websites on the main index page.

Those are the only outbound links on any of those pages, and NONE of them have any problems at all.
And not just these sites either - I have been crosslinking related sites for years and never experienced a penalty for any of them.
Whether it has been from a main page or 'links' page doesnt seem to matter.
(of course it DOES always help to have outbound links to other sources, if only to let the spiders know who's linking reciprocally to you!)

Crosslinking is not going to get you a PR0. Don't stress over it.

[dario]

thanks a lot,
I have discovered this forum some days ago and it is really funny, i love to find people who can speak about search engines, here in my town in Spain lot of my friends neither know what is google!
Regards,
Dario

[Go_Madrid]

Dario - if you want to speak about search engines in Spanish, just drop me a line :)
Si quieres hablar en español de los buscadores, mándame un mensaje.

[Woz]

or better yet, pop on over to the European Search Engines [webmasterworld.com] forum. Lots of information and helpful people.

Onya
Woz