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So my question is, should I only link my sites together that are related to each other and remove the links to the unrelated sites?
IF each site has independent links from other sites that you do not own or control, then you shouldn't have any problems.
I want to put a link on every page with a flag for that language version. Is this going to be considered a link farm with no other inbound links?
Question 2, is this going to help my page rank? As these are new sites I am going to need PR, but I do not want to waste three domains in one go. Hence the pevious question.Will it be a link farm?
The sad things is I am building these domains as a back up plan just in case for some reason google gives me the dreaded white bar. I follow the rules but have seen too many supposedly honest people in this forum take a beating.
On the other hand I could be digging my own grave anyway because this new site is the same product but with different content and a human editor may say I am a spammer. But every wise man has a back up plan
I remember I read several of them.
Below, a brief summary of what was discussed in those threads.
Google will punish you for excessive cross linking. Nobody (except google) knows what excessive cross linking means.
If you are caught and punished, your pages will get a PR0. Once you get a PR0, what you will see is not just a decrease in traffic; you will see that your traffic will go to nearly ZERO.
Nobody knows if or how you can fully recover from a PR0. Some people have gone months with the PR0. That's more than enough to close businesses.
I think you should read those threads before doing any cross linking.
The key to this is:
1. Anchor text should contain information related to your site
2. Web Map - will your sites link to each other only? They need to have inbound links from other parts of the web or you will get banned or penalized.
None of this is new but I thought it might help you. I've said this before but I'm seeing a more hub/authority oriented algorithm.
This is just an opinion, perhaps others that have tried this may have a more informed idea.
Designed By: Blah Blah at the bottom of each page of a Client site
Dont think so, i have over 2,000 pages with designed by on and all show up as nice little backward links and a high PR6.
In web design cases, it's almost imperative to have a link at bottom all across for copyright purposes. People actually do try to pull funny stuff; I caught one a few months ago through a referral in the site stats. I confronted the issue, so it was resolved. But there's no need to link back excessively, one is generally enough from the design site to the client site.
The month that the big PR0 penalty hit, there wasn't a penalty, but it did seem that multiple links from one site (without multiple links back) were disregarded, but there's not enough to say it for sure, though it certainly looked that way. It doesn't really matter as long as the one on the homepage counts, the others are for a degree of protection against intellectual property violation.
There's one web designer who has set up multiple sites (5-6) and links to them all from all their sites - from every page. With PR6 and over 1,000 inbound links there's no penalty now, but their main site dropped down drastically. There's just been a big change now, those multiple links just aren't doing what they were.
I wouldn't cross-link from all the pages of a site to all pages of another and then cross-link all across back to the first. That seems a little like over doing it. It's just too risky, the best way is with moderation.
>>a lot of the sites ranking seem to have untheme'd inbound links.
Totally agreed, for sheer numbers, it seems a lot of links from independent sites is helping, outweighing the value of links from only a few sites regardless of Page Rank. Even links from low PR sites helped a lot in one case this month. Numbers seem to be counting, which could explain some of the totally irrelevant sites being seen for certain searches. But it's still best to concentrate on links from unconnected sites that are topically related, things can always shift.
