Linking similar sites

Hi,

I am the webmaster of a number of sites that all cover similar topics.

I am considering linking the main site out to one of my other sites but am not sure whether to link from home page to home page / deep page to home page / deep page to deep page to get the maximum benefit.

Does anybody have any thoughts, comments or suggestions?

Thanks!

 

I would do subpages and try to keep the links within the main text of the page.

 

Thanks Bilz

 

Pick a keyword term on the other site that you want to rank for. Then optimize a page for the term. After that is done link from the home page of site A to the optimized page on site B with your keywords as the anchor text.

You can do this with all of your related sites, but don't overdo it.

 

Thanks freelistfool!

 

I think you need to choose the best related niche on your site, then sub page to sub page.

 

Be very careful with developing what might be considered a link farm. Remember, Google is a registrar and has access to all whois data. Interlinked sites stand out like a sore thumb - if that is the only source of their links.

That said, if you have one or more relatively strong sites (PR 5-6) you can use these to jump start new sites. Just use good sense and a modicum of restraint.

 

Thanks willy,

The sites I would interlink are all PR4 and have plenty of links from other sources.

 

Thanks for all your help and suggestions guys, very helpful and interesting.