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[buell man]

Hi all,

I have approx 80 domains relating to the travel industry and they all perform great in the engines.
Question is this: I have just made an adult oriented website for the clothing optional and I want to link it to my other sites for crawling, ranking reasons etc. but I can't afford to let all my PG clients to know it is there. How can I use the popularity from my other sites to give it a boost without a big ol link or an invisible pix link (neither of which I think I would attempt)
This one has me beat.

[Scottie]

Personally, I wouldn't link them. They aren't related unless some of your 80 websites are for clothing-optional resorts.

[Cygnus]

This is one dilly of a pickle. I'm afraid your best bet will be to start getting some incoming links from other nudist related sites...no need to lose a client over something silly.

Of course, you could approach each client with the hypothetical "what if..." and those that aren't opposed can give an outgoing link.

Cygnus

[Jill]

You're kidding, right, buell man?

You're not going to find info here on how to spam the search engines through having multiple domains and invisible cross-linking.

What does the clothing optional site have to do with the travel sites? If the PG clients don't want a to link to the site, then of course you can't link to it. It's as simple as that.

Jill

[Scottie]

I have approx 80 domains relating to the travel industry and they all perform great in the engines.

Whoa- I just read a little more closely. Domains are not the same thing as sites. Do you have 80 unique travel sites or just 80 redirected domains?

[buell man]

No, No,

I'm not doing what you think. Bad explanation on my part.
My domains are for separate locations entirely. Example(not real domains here btw): www.russiatravel.com everything about Russian regions, resorts, climate, events etc.
www.icelandtravel.com everything about Iclandic regions, resorts, climate, events etc.
and down the line. They are all very much different as far as info. provided to the customer, looks etc. Please no, I would not spam. I am in full agreement with you here.
The clothing optional domain clumps only those resorts that offer this type of vacation into one site. It will have all of these resorts no matter what country etc. listed. Kind of a one stop info site for them all. It contains NO nudity and NO foul language of any type. I just want to keep it away from all of my other customers that may get offended by even thinking about such a thing.
I hope that clarifies things here.

[Cygnus]

The term I like to use for that is microsite. You have 80 travel microsites.

Either way, consult with your clients one-by-one to see if they think it's relevant. It can't hurt to say that you were approached and want to check with them.

Cygnus

[buell man]

To clarify things even more.
I have no redirects.
I used the example of invisible links as something that I would NOT DO. I'm trying to figure out what I can do and not be spamming.
I own all of these domains, they are not clients.

I guess another example would be this:
You have a company that sells kayak trips in N Carolina and bicycle tours in Utah. I see nothing wrong with having 2 domains. 1. kayaknc.com and 2. bikeutah.com. Now I want to work off of their good rankings with linking somehow to them my new site toplesstoboganing.com without offending visitors of the first two. - again these are phony domains.
I hope that did it.

[Jill]

Thanks for the explanation!

The bottom line is either your clients agree to the link or they don't. I don't believe in putting links from one client's site on another client's. That's just wrong, imo.

A client's site or collection of sites is not there for an SEO to use as their own personal linking network. You should keep your client's sites totally separate.

Now, of course if all your clients were in similar industries where it made sense, you might have a link here or there where it would be helpful to your users, but again, it's not something that you should undertake lightly, and certainly not without your client's permission!

Jill

[buell man]

Jill,
These are all my sites. It 's like the guy that owns the Rolls Royce dealership, he wont work on my GMC pickup because it may offend his existing RR clients. So he opens up a GMC shop but doesn't want the RR guys to know that it's his. At the same time he wants to somehow use his good reputation to help out the new shops start up.
That being said I think that what I am wanting to do can't be done without spamming and/or upsetting the engines. Something that I will not do.
All of my other domains have been in the top ten for nearly 5 years and I wanted to be able to take advantage of their good pr and ranking.

[qwerty]

If these are all domains that you own yourself, the question comes down to your audience. I think if you alienate one PG client by putting up a link to the adult site, it isn't worth it. You might also have trouble with other sites that link to your older domains, in case they have a policy of refusing links to adult sites, or sites that link to adult sites. That's pretty common.

I'm sure there are plenty of places out there that will link to the new domain, but I can't think of a way to safely use your other domains to push it.

[buell man]

Bingo QWERTY,

If these are all domains that you own yourself, the question comes down to your audience. I think if you alienate one PG client by putting up a link to the adult site, it isn't worth it.

Thats what I was trying to avoid, and your correct. It isn't.

I'm sure there are plenty of places out there that will link to the new domain, but I can't think of a way to safely use your other domains to push it.

I think that I have come to the same conclusion, I was just wondering if anyone else knew something that I didn't.
Thanks everyone, that was fast.