I've heard that it's bad to interlink websites you own using dofollow links. But what if you just link out "one way" to another website you own? Will this still hurt your search engine rankings?
Personally I avoid interlinking any of my own websites as this could be considered a link scheme intended to affect search engine rankings. You should be fine with 1 or 2 links. I think Google just doesn't like when you go overboard with interlinking.
I wouldn't think so. If it is a relevent topic then yes, otherwise probably no. Just stick it on a links page or something, that's what I do.
There is nothing wrong with linking from one site that you own to another site that you own. Indeed this is one of the advantages of owning multiple sites. And obviously it is better to do a one way link than reciprocal in this case.
IF you have one site with a lot of PR then it is a good way for you to increase the PR of the other site.
can google tell this if you have google analytics from the same account in all your websites? so should you use different analytics accounts then for each site?
It's absolutely fine - especially if the host site has good PR or is more established and has relevant content to your other sites.
All you people are saying interlinking is fine, but I'd like to see some of you try some heavy cross linking and see what heppens. I'd bet it would just be a matter of time before you get penalized for something like that.
Lol, I agree with Vansterdam here, would like to hear from someone who has implemented some heavy interlinking within their own network of sites. I've read things like registering domain names with different registrars etc so Google cant work you out. Not too sure though, Google is a lot more clever than people think.
blatant full on interlinking is very dangerous and should be avoided, if you have a number of sites then you should write articles and refer to the other site in the post/article, and having the anchor text in context and not a related resource, anything more then it becomes very suspicious
he is absolutely correct...if the content is relevant and if think that it might help the user then go for it or else don't do it just to increase the link popularity
I'm just curious. How does everybody know that it's ok to link to another website you own? I've heard that Google does a whois lookup on each website it indexes which makes me wonder what the purpose of that is.
Linking to other pages within your website is really a good idea and best if you anchor texts are the same keywords you are optimizing for. It is really safe to make it one way.
To add to this thread, let me ask my example. I have one main large website and want to have about 50 other smaller sites that are the same niche, but more specific. I want to link them togather, but more imoortantly I want to add a one way link to my main site from each of the smaller ones. In terms of SEO, should all of the small sites be on separtae IP? Will google see this as blackhat? What is the best way to go about this, and what about linking a few of the smaller site togather?
I have one website for my professional practice (PR 4) and a separate content site focused on a particular area of the law (PR 5). There is a link to my professional site in the footer of every single page of my content site, or about 90 links in all. On my professional site, I link once to my content site. None of the links are "nofollow." Both sites are in my own name on whois. Both are on the same shared server. Both have Google Analytics and are listed in my Google Webmaster Tools. Google can obviously see that the sites are related. Both sites rank #1 on Google for a variety of fairly competitive keywords. It seems to me that if the links are natural and make sense in the context of the website, there is no penalty.