Will google penalize you for exchanging links with your own websites on the same server with the same IP? If i have about 10 one way links on my websites that are on the same server (each site has the same IP) pointing to another site on my server that has the same IP as every site that has a one way link.. will google penalize me for this and will i see a drop in the SERPS? sorry if it sounds confusing.. thanks!
This has potential to be seen as a link farm and lead to a punishment. You would be better moving some of the sites to other hosts if you can.
I would make a directory and add urls in that. That way they do not hurt the front page rank if it does hurt it at all.
If I understand what you are saying, this is "round robin" linking and it will get all the sites penalized. To do this, you must have different IP addresses. Or have 9 of the 10 sites link to the 10th site and use the 10th site as the main site of the concept. Google is very aware of this and you will not get the PR your are expecting.
it shouldnt hurt you but it definately wont help you. interlinking sites is seen,by google, as a way to generate traffic to ur other sites...
If you were in SERP results in the past and dropped it is not because of your linking strategy. The linking strategy you mentioned would have no impact on your SERP results. SERP changes are probably due to competing content or SEO on other sites.
I've read this a couple of days ago but can't recall where exactly. It's on Matt Cutts blog anyway - if there's a site about travel linking to a mortgage site, it gets penalised. So if you're interlinking sites of the same theme, then it's fine - that's what i understood anyway.
Google should not penalize for putting links on websites on same server. Consider a person owns 10 websites. It is obvious that he will try lead a visitor on one of the site to his other sites. I think its absolutely fair and people do it even without any SEO interest. Theirs no harm in this. At most what it can do is it will not benefit it. And most importantly even the google itself does this. They themselves put links to their other sites and vice versa. I understand that we people try to find out so many techniques to deceive google, and then try to categorize it into black and white. But in the process we get too obsessed for us to differenciate between the two. In fact, there are many issues we discuss here which people think and take it for granted that google must have taken this measure to stop the black SEO measure without having any valid proofs or experence for that. I have noticed that many conclusions here are based simply on assumptions.
What i'm wondering is that what if you do have a whole bunch of sites on a particular server host, but they're all different topics and are not linking to one another. Can you still get penalized for that?
Don't worry as long as you don't inter-link your sites you will not get penalized for hosting all your sites on the same server .
I do not think that Google will penalize you for this. However, it will not help you in SEO so what is the fun in doing it ? If you have some specific purpose for doing it then go ahead... nothing wrong.
Okay its best not to see a site as getting penalized, as it probably isnt. But if all sites are on the same IP then they most likely arent passing on the link benefits. If you moved some sites you would get the benefit of these links.
I would'nt recommend that type of linking anymore. Try to find ways to link out to your other sites naturally.