Forum Moderators: open
I had two sites that were linked in a very similar way, not done for any marketing/SEO reason just to offer a different product, these sites on the last update lost all backward links and PR which was 6 now is 0 I can only put this down to the linking.
I have dropped google a line, quite a few times with no response asking if the linking was the problem with no reply.
So I can't definitely say but I’m pretty sure
Did you mention webmasterworld in your correspondence? GG claims that will get a bit more attention if you are doing google QC, I'm just wondering if the "help" works both ways?
Would your sprockets site have links only from the widgets site?
Also whether the link will be placed from all of your pages of widgets site to the sprockets home page or will there be some pages which do not have the outbound link?
I think if it is linked from all of your pages and the sprocket site has other good incoming links from other sites, it shouldn't be a problem.
tigger :
What would you identify as the problem issue in your case - was it that the other site you linked to didn't have any other incoming links or that you gave out so many links from one site to the other, that it became a problem?
site A was linked to site B on most pages around 100. site B was only linked to A on the index page.
I've now removed the links and I'm waiting to see if G drops the penalty (Ha fat chance)
In tigger's case, the problem was the link back. Am I right, tigger?
My linking scheme was very similar to yours (I need to point foreigners who arrive to the original domain to the new English one). More than 500 links going one way, only 1 link pointing back.
Not much of other links, the second domain is quite new.
No problem in Google (so far). Maybe Google can measure "intentions"? :) If you link for ranking they hit you hard, if you link for helping your users to find what they need, they let you be?;)
You had two different languages and it wouldn't be a problem in your case.
soapystar :
I still believe that if you dont link back it wont be a problem. Are those two sites on a shared IP?
what do you mean link back?
I really think you answered your own question. 150k uniques a month, I wouldn't even look at the site never mind change it ;)
what do you mean link back?
It being a reciprocal link rather than being a link only from site Y to site Z. If its one way only then I dont see it as a problem whether it is from 100 pages of Y or thousand pages. Do you agree?
what if all 500 internal links go a single page on the widgets site..and this single page then gives a text link to the sprockets site...
this is definitely a problem. What I am saying is that a reciprocal link (whether it is to the same page or different) is the problem. If sprocket domain doesn't link to the widget domain, then its safer IMHO
The optimized pages showed up in pretty good positions in Google...
Do you think this is a safe way building traffic to the SPONSOR site(s)? Could it be safer if the links are php redirects?
