Linking your sites together.

[gldean]

I have ten sites now and am wondering if it is a good idea to link them all together. Will google penalize for this? Should I only link niche specific sites together or any and all of them?

I appreciate your input,
GD

[vansterdam]

Personally I avoid cross linking my own websites. Many people consider this to be against Google's Terms & Conditions. I don't think it is worth risking my websites' long term success in exchange for short term gains. That being said, many people do cross link their websites and get away with it....for how long, who knows.

[scubita]

Don't link them UNLESS you have different who is name, different servers (C-Class IP) etc etc. If you really need some links to them better create some phantom niche wp/blogger blogs and send links to your sites. Don't forget to create new email accounts to activate blogs > Gmail is a big NoNo. :) Good luck.

[Buckyuk]

I dissagree with this, i have about 10 sites linking together and just now some of them are experiencing serps way higher than i thought i would even acheive.
They are all on same hosting, all same who is etc.

Just dont go crazy with it and im sure u'll be fine

[meaghannf]

I would link together the ones that are relevant. It seems that links from related sites tend to weigh more than unrelated ones. Because there is the possibility for Google to view linking the sites together as black hat, but also the possibility of a big payoff in terms of SERP, you should just link the ones that are actually related.

[hmansfield]

I link some of my sites together with no problem, and many other companies do the same thing. News sites, Night Clubs, Music sites, TV networks, Insurance Companies. It is a very common practice and I have never seen any Google terms that say sites within the same company cannot be linked together.
If that were the case CNN would be on the bottom of the serps.

[rena]

crss linking is not bad and no penalization from Google for it. But wont get much link juice from it

[sellhousefast]

I think cross linking from different c-class ips WITHOUT different whois data is asking for trouble from big G. Nobody would pay for different c-class unless they were trying to cheat the system...Google knows that too.

[zexy]

Linking them all could be a problem. You should use SEO hosting for that purpose ;)
Here is a decent company that provide seo hosting: http://www.seohosting.com/ if you decide to go that way.

[sjs]

I would not link them together unless they are on all different IPs.

[theinsider12]

Stick to linking sites together that are relevant to each other. That way the big G won't penalize you.

[smoothcall6]

I think if they are relevant sites and you don't go crazy with it you will be ok

[mg_]

lol why you would get penalized :D the same ip links just get less authority than ones that have different ip. I always have some sites linked together for some having traffic in my network

[itcoll]

i too wouldnt prefer interlinking too much.But maybe you may bring 2 to 3 one way links to one of your blogs.

[easy16]

Don't link them, its against google TOS

[gldean]

Hey, thanks for the replies. It looks to be 50-50 for the thoughts on this subject. Tell me, why would google penalize someone for doing this? I just don't see where it hurts anything and does google believe all traffic, marketing procedures should be manual, hand written? Has anyone actually linked their sites together and seen google bang them for it, personal experiences?

Regards,
GD

[sandhuharvey]

I've got about 5 sites all cross linking and i haven't been penalized my Google

[notepage]

Only link the ones that are related, and make the links one-way.

[freelistfool]

Only interlink the related sites. Don't do sitewides in a footer. Link where you think your visitors will benefit from the content on the other site and you won't run a foul of Google.

[rayray7]

unless you have thousands of websites with different IPS address any linking will not get much juice. Linking sites with the same ips address as sub-domains is a useless way to generate traffic. Different addresses not different domain is what determines your success. for example if you live at 10 maple st and i live at 10 maple st any link between us will not carry much weight.

[gldean]

Thanks for the replies! By linking them together using keyword, by that I mean showing the link on front page, wouldn't that help things out a bit?

[Highena.com]

There is no penalisation like people keep saying. Think about it, it goes on all the time. The only thing to consider is the lack of link juice

[contentboss]

as you only have a few, you're so far off the radar you're probably safe. They prefer to hunt down the 'big' offenders - link farms, spam networks of thousands of domains, that kind of thing.

[mytor]

There are several guys out there who own the first place in google serp for very competitive 2 word terms with massive crosslinking from different ip's but same registrant. At this moment google seems to love it.

[seodetectors07]

I would link together the ones that are relevant. It seems that links from related sites tend to weigh more than unrelated ones. Because there is the possibility for Google to view linking the sites together as black hat, but also the possibility of a big payoff in terms of SERP, you should just link the ones that are actually related.

[CTBoss]

I have a few related sites that I have considered linking together. They are on the same c-class but they are related to each other. I think the best way to link them is to consider what will drive targeted traffic each way and how it will benefit users of your site first before any seo benefit.

[seodetectors07]

i would say you there is no kind of problem in cross linking the websites......

the other thing is that concerning SEO there is no matter of servers or hosting...but remember that you need to link sites which are in same niche market...

[bill9404]

better than directories... just depends, everyone has an opinion.

[LindaAdams]

on my website armastevs.com I have linked 8 other flash game websites on it and have had nothing but greatness from doing this. Its kinda like my own personal traffic exchange system.

[straw berry bottom]

I see so many websites do this that I think it is almost an ego thing. Overall my recommendation would be not to do it. You run the risk of being perceived as a (albeit it 'mini') link farm.

If you combine your cross site linking (most people seem to do it with site wide footer links) with links from paid link networks I think you run a real risk of being perceived as part of that low trust network which could have a very bad effect on your rankings.

[Chancey]

If all your sites has the same niche then it is advisable otherwise you are just going to create your own headache.

[dickieknee]

linking sites that are relevant and related will help get additional visitors to those other sites that are not ranking, do not cross link each page to every other page as you will trigger the google spam site filter. using different IP addresses is not as important as it was several years ago.. take it slowly and link one page at a time to check the results.

[jbhseo]

Interlinking all the sites you own is a great idea if they are all related, on different servers and obtain links from different sites. They can really help each other out. But that being said, 1 could mess it up for the rest of them as well.

[contentboss]

There are several guys out there who own the first place in google serp for very competitive 2 word terms with massive crosslinking from different ip's but same registrant. At this moment google seems to love it.

interesting claim. Care to post examples?

[Philvault]

If your 10 sites are related to each other, then by all means link them. But it's always better to link your sites if they're on different IPs.

Why not create blog sites from blogger.com or wordpress.com and then link them to your sites.

[prescy15]

Class C IPs are expensive way to high