I formed a network with 12 domains in 3 different data centers.
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I formed a network with 12 domains in 3 different data centers.How should I link them to my main Domain?
I did something : all minor domains link to main domain site-wide (nofollow) and 3-5 internal links from each minor domains go to sub pages of the major domain (dofollow linking from content).
Shall I link each other like A>>c>d......
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Hi Muhammed,
When you mention a link network, people immediately think about sites like BMR that have been thoroughly penalized. I wrote about them here:
http://moz.com/blog/unnatural-link-warnings-blog-networks-advice
It's a risky strategy, and definitely not my favorite. That said, I think you can inter-link your sites if you do it correctly. For example, you can link to content pieces from one site to another when the topics happen to overlap. I've linked from a philosophy site I own to a jewelry site when the jewelry site got deep on what jewelry means to us.
What I wouldn't do is create 12 sites on the same topic and build a link wheel. I'd also advise you not to cross-link on a site-wide basis just because you own the site. It has to make sense to a reasonable user. Otherwise you'll get caught, re-penalized, and end up wasting a bunch of time that could have been spent actually gaining real life attention.
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Muhammed,
This forum and ALL the others are filled with people asking about how to deal with penalties related to link networks and link wheels. You may think you have a strategy no one else has thought of, but you should keep in mind that there are a lot of smart people out there, many with much more experience than you (those who don't need to ask how to build a link network because they've experimented with hundreds of them in the past, for example), who will tell you that you're much better off spending your hours working on more legitimate SEO tactics.
If you must create your link network, do so as an experiment with non-money sites that have no connection to your money site at all--not on the same server, not with the same host, and not linked to any site you would like to be of value to you in the future. You could even do 4 or 5 different networks using different tactics and see which one lasts the longest. Once they've all crashed and burned, you could write a blog post about your experiment and use it as link bait to help boost the authority of your money site.
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Well, if you think you can do it without a penalty, then go ahead. I am just giving you my opinion. As Google's Matt Cutts said, Google will take some time to trust your site again once a penalty is revoked, so probably they are looking at your site closely, sooner or later, they will see those links and do their math, and you won't like the outcome.
Just my 2 cents...
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You could not possibly do any good by building your own link network with 12 domains you purchased. Google will figure it out, and your links will either be devalued completely, or you'll get a manual penalty placed on your site.
There are legitimate use cases for site wide links (like in the footer) but it's best to nofollow these links to be safe.
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I dont think so. My site had got a penalty due to haxlink attacks. So I prepared a disavow txt and sent. I applied to google and they accepted it so I havent got any link penalty at the moment.They really saw how I linked but that was no problem for them.
In fact I learned how I can use site wide links as a result of unnatural link penalty.
Any suggestion?
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You shouldn't be doing that in the first place. That's a big NO-NO. You may thing Google won't catch you as you are only following some links, but the way they control information and the fact that they have been fighting spam for years... you are just killing your site softly...
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