linking 30 sites

What would be the best way to link 30 site's on 2 server's?

[teeceo]

Hi all. What would be the best way to link all these sites and all the pages on the site's?

teeceo.

[Marcia]

teeceo, you couldn't safely interlink all the pages from all the sites, you'd end up with a link circle.

For 30 sites, if they're related in topic you could set up a hub with spokes and make sure to have plenty of other unrelated links in and out.

[rcjordan]

>hub with spokes

Yep, then, if you'd like to add some nav for site-to-site surfing without going back up through the hub, us document.write javascript to write the nav menu. I'm also toying with the idea of using a iframe to carry site submenues hosted on the hub.

[teeceo]

I was thinking of linking site: 1 to 2-10, site 2 to 3-10 site 3 to 4-10 and so on, on server 1...

on server 2, site 11 linked to 12-20 and so on linking up(never back)

on server 3, site 21 linked to site's 22-30 and so on.

Is this cool? and all so, when I link the site's like this, can I link all the page's on the site's?

teeceo.

[paynt]

The hub idea is great advice teeceo and then instead of creating a pattern for linking I suggest you link related content, it’s tougher to get busted that way because the linking is set up to make sense. Patterns I think are too obvious although that’s not to say a pattern couldn’t work out just fine.

And nice tip RC.

[jeremy goodrich]

paynt has a good point, if you link them to 'make sense' and link related topics to each other, I've actually found that works very well....

Also, imho, it creates a better user experience.

However, if you just want to systematically link them together, in a link-to-link-to-link fashion, then if one site goes down, they might all suffer :(

rcjordan has a great idea, too.

Though I will say, if you take the sits, split them into two groups, and then add a nav bar that links 'em all from the root, it'll do the best (from what I've seen) to share the PageRank across them all...but of course, there are always risks...