Hi,
We host about 30 sites on our webservers. We've had the idea to have a link page with a link to each of our sites. With some trickery I can put this page on every individual site, and only update it in one place.
The question: Is each of our websites linking to all of our other websites a good idea? It seems like a good way to gain 30 links to each of our sites, and show off our design capabilities to potential clients. Is this something the search engines will frown apon?
From a design point of view, it just replaces a link on all our sites to our own website.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Kari
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karisewell
, Apr 29 2004 09:10 AM
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mcanerin
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Posted 29 April 2004 - 09:46 AM
That's a link farm and could cause very bad things to happen to your clients rankings.
If they link to you - fine. If you link to them - fine. If one or two link to each other in a natural fashion - no problem, usually. If they all link to each other (or even mostly)- trouble.
Many people set up artificial websites (definition: website who's prime purpose is provide link weight to a related site) and then link them all together to increase rankings. The search engines know this and very often apply penalties - such as moving to position 10,000 or worse on the search results. It would be difficult for them to see this as any different.
Even most professonal link farmers and spammers (who have no ethical problems doing this) advocate making sure that the client is fully informed as to the possible consequences in writing - because if a client of yours drops in rank and hires an SEO - the SEO will pinpoint the problem pretty quick and you will have a very mad (and possibly litigeous) ex-client on your hands.
Not recommended. I'm glad you asked before doing it. Welcome to the forum!
Ian
If they link to you - fine. If you link to them - fine. If one or two link to each other in a natural fashion - no problem, usually. If they all link to each other (or even mostly)- trouble.
Many people set up artificial websites (definition: website who's prime purpose is provide link weight to a related site) and then link them all together to increase rankings. The search engines know this and very often apply penalties - such as moving to position 10,000 or worse on the search results. It would be difficult for them to see this as any different.
Even most professonal link farmers and spammers (who have no ethical problems doing this) advocate making sure that the client is fully informed as to the possible consequences in writing - because if a client of yours drops in rank and hires an SEO - the SEO will pinpoint the problem pretty quick and you will have a very mad (and possibly litigeous) ex-client on your hands.
Not recommended. I'm glad you asked before doing it. Welcome to the forum!
Ian
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