For starters thanks for all the help so far.

Question 1: I have a wide enough subject area to easily split the site up under numerous domains (this actually works better for usability purposes). If I inter-link all these website does this help SEO or because search engines can detect that all websites are coming from the same server it does no good or hurts. None of these websites are gateways (examples: spadout.com, rockclimbingvideo.com, potrerochicoclimbing.com etc)

Question 2: I am clearly being linked to by major websites (that are in the same categories). There google cache includes the links pointing to me but I am still listed at no links if I do link:URL. Advice (or just time?)?

Thanks again,
Mark

Hi,

Q1 yes you could get some benefit, by linking all your different sites, but you would have to be VERY careful to avoid any duplicate content penalty, because spammers have used similar methods to flood the serps and the SE's are after them. The spam sites are recognised because of their duplicate content, same DNS info, same class C IP address, and an unnatural linking pattern.

Q2. Google doesn't show all the links it knows about. You would be better checking your backlinks in yahoo and msn.

Cheers,
Paz.

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Hi,

I personally think you should be quite careful linking all your sites together - it really depends how many sites you have I would think. If you split it into a lot of sites then this is a bad idea to have them all linking with each other. It creates a sort of clique which google considers unatural. See a recent comment from people working for the main SEs.

"Q: Reciprocal links; we have them now, we have plans to do more, what should I do? There are 20 of them links.
A: Matt said here is my rule of thumb, pretend you are my competitor, what would they think of it? Plenty of people have reciprocal links but if its excessive, then you need to be careful. Editorial given links and independent links are best.
Danny then asked 4 people in the audience to point to each other and then asked several to point at each other.
Matt said if you go into "graph theory" you have a "clique", that clique is when everyone in a network is pointing at each other, that is not natural."

Read the full article at http://forums.searchenginewatch.com...read.php?t=7287

Nice post. haven't read it yet... but with that teaser, it's a must. Thanks

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