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[gobayview]

Hello All:

I run a little neighborhood site here in Milwaukee, and came up with a mysql/php/rss solution to have one central neighborhood link repository to which all neighborhood sites could refer (another part of it plots the links on a neighborhood map). I maintain the database at my central site, then serve it up as an RSS feed so other sites can keep an up-to-date neighborhood links page on their sites.

This really was done for this purpose only, but upon completion, I realized this linking system could be beneficial for strategical purposes. All the sites have something in common -- geography. So I tweaked the system a little to make sure linking sites put out actual server-side html and not client-side text as many rss aggregators do, and in recognition of identical content/mirror concerns, I made it so each sites links pages were slightly different (random selection and ordering).

My question: am I endangering the sites who use this linking sytem? Will Google drop them for participating in a spam program? I really did come up with it so 100 different sites would not have to all worry about their neighborhood links being out of date, and it really is useful for surfers, but realize I may be stepping into a gray area here.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Spice

[hoptoo]

I had been testing a similar thing to this and likely ran into the same trouble.
We used a small include footer that would randomly include links on other sites which we ran. In this way 30-40 sites consiting of large numbers of pages were all shoing 2-3 links at a time from a db of those sites. We tried to avoid flooding each page with links this way. The spiders have found them and found their way through to the other sites (referred by) but they appear to have "caught on" and not liked it. These sites have mostly not gotten deep crawled in 6 weeks. I attempting to keep all inbound links as static as possible now. I used the same change y db change all the sites strategy, and will no longer associate my sites in this way, as all the eggs may have been broken in that basket.

I only interlink my sites that sit on different IP servers completely. Not sure if thise was the other problem, but it wont be again.