i have a chain of domains .. is that bad or what?

[miroo]

Hi all

i have a chain of related doains each in a certain branch
about 33 domains
and there is a page in each site that have a listing of our related domains .. so they are cross-linked

will the SE understand that as a link farm?

[gniland]

It sounds like you are trying to go down the path of the "mininet". If you are worried about being seen as spam, you should make it look natural. Don't include all of the links on all of the pages, randomize them.

Also try to have the links make sense to a user. A site with a good user experience will retain many users thus saving you from always having to find new ones.

[miroo]

thanks for the tip .. but
the page i`m talkin about with links to the other 33 domais is part the site design it wasn`t made for the sake of SEO
at the first place .. it is the same page in every site with 32 links on it refering to the rest of our sites

[rogerd]

Miroo, welcome to WebmasterWorld. Whether the duplicated links page was done for SEO purposes or not, it has the feel of a mini-link farm and sounds risky. I'd second gnilands recommendation to dump the duplicate link page and find a more natural way of linking the sites. Getting good external links for the various domains will reduce your risk, too.

[ogletree]

miroo make your site the way that helps your visitors. A lot of people around here have many sites that are interlinked and do just fine. Me being one of them. You have to understand this is a very parnoid bunch. If you want to be safe and worry about future penalties you might want to just move each site to a different host. I don't think it will ever happen. I moved some of my sites to different hosts and there was no change. I rank quite well for a lot of terms even with the sites that are still on the same server and they link to each other. It looks very natural to have a footer on the bottom of each page that links to your other sites. Look at DMOZ or CNET. They all do it.

[miroo]

well Ogletree .. i feel better already :)