Say you have 50 websites.. all hotel related... and lets say its: AlaskaHotels.com, FloridaHotels.com, MarylandHotels.com, MassachusettsHotels.com, CaliforniaHotels.com etc. Now lets say.... you decide to put 50 links on the homepage say on the side.... with a list that says: Alaska Hotels Florida Hotels Maryland Hotels Massachusetts Hotels California Hotels Can you be penalized on Google? One of my competitors does this and ranks #1 for each keyword...... and many are on the same IP address.... and its all "Do Follow" Anyone have any experience with this????
No. Google knows these are all owned by the same person. But all your sites may or may not be on top.
If the sites are all for the same hotel then it would be a breach of googles terms and conditions but if they are all different sites then it would be ok. I'll sway links with you 50 sites if you pm me!
Well, any artificial link building systems and patterns might not bring magical results, especially when Google finds the same IPs being used.
do it wisely. dont cross linking all of them, build a net that looks natural for google. I mean start linking just a few randomly and see how it goes.
This is Google's biggest double standard right now! Google allows Craigslist to do this, with multiple TLD country specific sites, so you should be able to do this with your sites, a hotel site in Japan, a hotel site in Mexico. It should be the same thing right? Just by going into webmastertools and changing the loaction but having them all as ".com" WRONG!!! Google has a huge double standard they allow craigslist to interlink all their sites with dofollows BUT ban others for link farming, I personally think that they could and should be sued for this. Back in march Google penelised all the sites it found doing this, instead the solution should have been to not count those links if they wanted to stop this king of manipulation. I would not interlink your sites as its just a matter of time. Instaed I would do the horrible thong and go to webmaster tools and report your competitor for link farming, most likely they will get all their sites penelised and all yours will just dominate. It sucks for them but that business right now!
In a heart beat... Not sure but if you "nofollow" this may counter balance the effect (dont qoute me on it though...) laterz malcolm