Old Song.Too Many Backlinks At Once? New Site

….industry related on topic

[LostOne]

First I want to thank many of your that have shared your wisdom over the years. I’ve been a part time lurker for the most part in the last two years, but now I have an interesting question, unless it’s been covered, I apologize.

Site # 1- Been on the web since 2002. Very strong back links and very good traffic for the industry I am in. Many strong search phrase results on page 1 of Google.

Site # 2- Recently launched on same topic (content similar, but updated, and worded differently) but regional. I am trying mostly to get traffic to site #2 from site #1 and not trying to game the search engines.

Question: I realize too many back links at once raises red flags for new sites, but gosh darnit I’m not trying to purposely build back link anchor text strength for the new site, rather funneling traffic to the regional site.

While I would like the new site to rank decently over the next six months, am I looking for trouble with the BIG G? I would probably be placing a dozen text links scattered across site #1 with the subject and regional name(s) of site #2 in the link.

Thanks for your time:)

[LostOne]

I should have been patient and followed the comments at the link below..it tells it all and makes perfect sense. Bravo for the wonderful comments.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[buckworks]

If the links would make good sense for users, put them in place and let the search engines make of them whatever they will. A dozen links from your own pages shouldn't cause any problems unless that's all you've got for links to the new site.

[LostOne]

Thanks for the followup Buckworks. After reading that other thread it sounds like a go slow approach is best. I do have a few links and maybe one from DMOZ in a few months, maybe sooner, although they were pretty quick five years ago. Same guy in a small category.

[CainIV]

lacing a dozen text links scattered across site #1 with the subject and regional name(s) of site #2 in the link.

If you have no care for SEO, and the move is for visitors, leave them as they are and let caution fall to the wind.

If SEO is your thing and you are concerned about penalization / filtering of sorts, simply add rel="nofollow" to the links.

[ecmedia]

Don't worry too much about people linking to you. The problem happens when you acquire too many links overnight with the same keyword (that also happens to be a competitive keyword) - that is typically not natural. When dozens of random people link to a website they are less likely to use exact same anchor text.