Hey, I have a couple of sites sharing the same niche on one server. If I "exchange links" between them, will this be effective? Because I heard that kind of links are useless.. I'm really curious about this Thank you!
I'm in the same boat. I've got a network of sites on a single server that link to each other. Effective?
I do not think it will hurt. Most people say it will not help sites rank but it might help sites be spidered more often. Make sure sites are related in topic for best results.
This has been a no-no for quite a long time. Those links are probably of almost no value. If you want them to boost each other you need to use another web host.
Google uses the sub.net IP address(xxx.xxx.XXX.xxx) to detect this and will make the links worthless. Cross linking will be considered spam and you will be penalized. The next idea that many use is a round-robin (site1 links to site2, that links to site3, that links to , that links to site1). Again, same IP address. Best solution is to have the major site (site1) on one hosting server and the rest on a second one with different IP addresses. Site1 can link to the others and all others link to site1. But no cross linking on the "others" site. But having pushed this concept to the limits, it's not worth it.
If you use a company like SEO hosting and put all the sites on seperate c class ip addressess then they will benefit, if not then they will have no benefit, they wont harm the sites though.
Google penalized me for it .. and I lost quite a bit.. but I pushed it to far.. a few links to internal sites helps to get them to other sites but not for Google in any way. Google crawls them and know were they come from. Tk
usually good to grow new sites on same server to lower the costs , but when they start to expand then dedicate a unique IP to them , create a seperation, and then add the links. Make sure you dont use the same content when that time comes. for example if your home page on site1 says= "Welcome to (Site 1) we sell the best Widgets you have ever seen , they were created in such and such" and then if site2 home page says = " (the same thing) Google recognizes the same content and will penalize - due to all those affiliate sites that went spaz a few years back
Well I can't put them on different servers due to low budget I also don't think it's really necassary because the sites are pretty new. I'm also talking about a pretty small number of sites so the benefits from having them linking to eachother aren't that big..so I just removed the links, this gives me also some more place to do some linkexchange with other sites.
Yes it does help, i've got about 80 sites on the one server/IP and alot of those sites have backlinks ONLY from other sites on the same server and they are dominating some highly competitive keywords and earning a great revenue.
Thats very odd sweetfunny. Because Google dislikes scenarios where many sites on the same domain and sometimes even in the same IP range on seperate servers that link to eachother. See: Google Webmasters Guidelines / internal linking to boost SERPs is against the guidelines. Google automated penalties: may or may not trigger to penalize your site. If your subdomains are related in content/relevancy it might not penalize. BUT, there have been many sites that have gone 1 to 2 years with large subdomain interlinking - and then suddenly get hit by the Google penalty. So in my opinion, if youre doing your own site and feel like taking the risk of getting penalized, go ahead. If you're working on client sites etc, I wouldnt bother with interlinking at all. As a client , boos etc would be happier to see a PR 1 even, compared to a PR 0 and 900 days wiped out.
On another thread somebody told me that if I choose to hide my WhoIs information, then google cannot detect that the web pages that are being interlinked are from the same owner/server... that seems to simple. Does anybody know if this is true?
All of our sites and re-seller accounts are all on the same IP address and have not noticed any drawbacks. We have a dedicated server built and ready to use, we just need to transfer everything over now.