Wanted to run this by everyone. I own a network of sites that has 30-40 sites in it. They are all similar in the same niche and I have recently installed a "menu bar" at the top of each sites that represents the "network" and has dropdown links to every site within the network. I love the way this looks and shows that these belong to a bigger entity/network. Also, provides an easy way to navigate among the other sites in the network. But, what kind of linking effect does this have? Is this really bad to have all these sites interconnected like that? What would you all recommend? Leave it or scrap it and keep the sites a little more "hidden" from each other. Thanks! Ryan
Do they all share the same base domain name? Like subdomains inside the main domain? Or like I assume, they all have a different domain?
Can't see anything wrong with linking your sites together - unless there is dupicate content... I read somewhere that google for instance, dont have a problem with this...if they are related... Google link their sites dont they? - of course they do...
It should be okay. The big blog networks do it all the time. Just make sure to get a lot of backlinks from outside of your network of sites. That's the most important thing in my opinion about succeeding in SEO.
Thanks for the thoughts. They are mostly on the same IP - a few on different. They are all different domains but in the same "niche". No duplicate content across sites at all. Most have good backlinks - not some of the new ones yet. I haven't noticed any penalizing or anything yet as most have some PR and are indexed well... Just wanted to make sure I wasn't shooting myself in the foot Thanks!
From what I heard, it's not recommended to have more sites on the same IP. I don't know about the interlinking itself...