Groups of Links?
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If I have lets say 5 sites and I am able to negotiate a link on a highly ranking site for all five of them together would there be potential for penalty for linking them together on other sites as well?
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The concept of relevancy is being drilled into my head on an almost daily basis by my current mentor. I am supposed to cringe, hiss and run like a vampire exposed to light at the concept of linking any of my sites to non relevant sites. After the recent penalties, I would be very cautious about how you link sites together, especially in unnatural looking groups and definitely not with side-wide links if that is the offer. All my sites are currently in the process of separation if not outright divorce
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Think "unnatural patterns". The trick to SEO is knowing how to spot unnatural patterns. If you've got 5 sites, and you get 50 links pointing to each one, where those 50 come from the same root domains, that's definitely an unnatural pattern.
Given that SEO is vastly complex, it may not be a big deal if you're doing a full spread of other link building that's unique to each of your 5 sites.
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Kyle,
What I am referring to is a bunch of unrelated sites that wouldn't be linked directly to each other but all 5 of them linked from the same higher PR sites. Lets say there are 10 PR7 sites that I know of that will let me post a few links. Would I be better suited post 2 links to each of my five sites (1 per PR7 domain) or put all 5 links on all 10 sites.
What are your thoughts on this? Thanks!
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If I were you I would approach it not using exact match anchor text and not interlinking the 5 sites together. Build more of a pyramid when linking multiple sites to a money site. If you provide me a little more detail i can provide more assistance.
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