Link block with own websites, harmful?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by ray1983, Feb 25, 2008.

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    Dear members,

    I'm using a block of links that have 11 websites in it and i include this on my own network of sites. All the links are related and each site has top 3 rankings for the main keywords that i'm targetting. So far, so good.

    My question, is it harmful to include this link list of 11 websites on the mainpage of all there 11 sites? I must add that for example one website has 236 links on it, without the 11 sites. The ratio of "own" sites v.s. thirdparty sites is very little. Maybe this makes it less harmfull?

    Please advice me on this one guys.

    Is it wise to mix the links between the other links, change the order of the links?

    Thanks in advance.

    -R
     
    ray1983, Feb 25, 2008 IP
  2. kelouba

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    Google could class this as a link farm. So I would say yes its bad for your site.
     
    kelouba, Feb 25, 2008 IP
  3. ray1983

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    How can i solve this? I mean there are allready 200+ links on the website to other websites.

    Note: the website is updated daily (all of the 11 websites) with unique content.
     
    ray1983, Feb 25, 2008 IP
  4. pondlife

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    I think the important thing is managing the amount of off-site links per page. 'link farm' is something specific and not the same as having too many offsite links per page - best to keep this figure low, see if you can spread them out over the whole of your site.
     
    pondlife, Feb 25, 2008 IP