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They are (mostly) on a similar theme (which I have deliberately kept quite broad in range and so I interlink between sites for content that I could see on either one of the three sites.
I am doing well for quite highly valued "kudos" keywords.
I'm trying to make my sites "authority" - yeah right! - - sites in a very competitive field but I popped into no2 in the world for my primary two word phrase.
These sites are info sites - with some adsense on them. I market them heavily through delicious etc.
Generally they have been well immune to all the bouncing about everyone seems to complain about. Probably because they are info sites and not shopping sites targetting ultra competitive terms. It helps that a lot of the info on the sites doesnt change that often with regard to the industry each targets.
These sites I use as traffic catchers for my converting site - a fourth site - again linked to from the three sites, and a site that encompasses all the industries discussed on the other 3 (phew!).
So there is quite a bit of linking going on. The way I see it I've built my sites for users and I want something out of it! So I interlink these sites. Would I do this if search engines did not exist - of course! it would be the only way I could effectively advertise this network.
Of course, there's one or two links throughout the sites that could be removed as they have little relevence but for the last 2 years I've stuck the right side of Google and have good positions.
and it helps that THE authority site in the world links to two out of these sites a couple of times :)
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So - I desperately need to get control of all my domains etc and get them into a host i can actually do stuff like mod-rewrite etc and install the latest Wordpress for example.
My question (you'll be glad to hear) is will I see a drop in traffic / serps when I do this because of this interlinking (that Google doesnt seem to mind in the status quo)? Moving all the currently hosted seperately sites onto one shared IP.
And if I do, could i not just switch back to the origional IP to regain positions?
Any experience of this please?
My thinking is that because I have a lot of quality links in it might disuade Google from dumping on me.
Of course, I'm willing to dilute this interlinking going forward as I think the sites can survive on their own merits now.
I'm feeling bold - is this too bold?
The issue involves what the SE's refer to as "affiliated sites." The term in this case refers to sites with common ownership, or some other very close relationship.
The SE's generally frown on sites that are very similar in nature, and affiliated. IF two or more of the sites are very similar in terms of the content provided, then the more information you provide that suggests the sites are affiliated, the greater the risk that you will lose one or more of the sites in the SERP's.
