Linking Advice

Can someone give me advice here?

I have a main domain, very well ranked in top 10 of my top keywords.

I also now own several domains of different names that are currently pointing to that main domain, that have my keywords in them.

All the links on my index page are relative links.

Can I put links to those other domain names on my pages?

Should I put links to the other domain names on other peoples sites?

Can I be penalized for having another domain pointing to my main site?

I can't be the first person who owns multiple domains. What is the best way to accomplish getting more domains out there, some with keywords in them?

 

I'm not sure I understand everything you say or everything you are asking. When you say these other domains have your keywords in them, what do you mean? Do you mean in the domain name, in the title, in the content, or in the anchor text of the links to the main page?????

What is the significance of that information?

I'm lost. What other domain names and what pages? Do you mean links from your main page to the supplementary pages?

What other peoples sites? Do you have access to sites that you don't own? You probably should not put links on anybody else's site without their permission. But again I'm not sure that is what you are talking about.

The simple answer is no. But if Google implements some of the technology they have patents on, like Local Rank, they may not give credit or value to links coming from the same IP block, which I imagine all your interlinking site share. So they won't penalize you, but they just might ignore these links.

You certainly aren't the first. It is a strategy that has been employed for years. It is generally known as cross linking. If you really want to get more domains out there and crosslink between them the safest way may be to host them on different servers.

I still have no idea of what you mean when you say "some with keywords in them". In them how?

 

Ok, let me see if I can explain this easier.

I have a domain, lets say ladida.cm selling sports memorabilia. It's optimized for the search term sports memorabilia, and similar keywords.

I also own a domain called sports-memorabilia.cm that points to ladida.cm which obviously has my important keywords in it.

I have coded all the links and images on my homepage like this:
/store/etc.html without any reference to domain name. Therefor, if you hit the site via either of those domain names it will look like everything is related to the domain you arrived in.

Consequently, I am asking if:

1. Can I put links on my own site that reference the pointed domain so that it will be spidered without penalty or anything?

2. Should I trade links with other sites, sometimes using the additional domain so that there are links to it out there as well, getting it spidered and recognized? Will I be penalized for this? Will google eliminate one domains content if it is similar to the other since both domains point to the same place theoretically?

3. My host allows me to have multiple sites or main domains on my account. I'm not sure if even tho they are different sites in different directories that they dont share the same IP address? Will this be bad if they are? I could create a second site and simply have an index page there which has links that point to my main site.?

Like I said, I'm sure I'm not the first person to have multiple domains they own and want to point them to the same site. What is the best way to do this?

 

I'd like to help but, I'm still having some problem understanding. I would guess that your sites are sharing an IP address or are on what is called a virtual server, but I don't understand how the linking address you use can work. For this to work your main domain home page and the secondary domain home page would have to both be in the same folder. It is impossible to have two files with the same name in the same folder.

I must be really thick, but what is the "pointed domain"? I thought both of these site were yours. When you say my own site do you mean your main site? To use the names above do you mean ladida.cm? And when you say "pointed domain" do you mean sports-memorabilia.cm?

If this what you mean the answer is yes. I told you in the first post that the Google rarely penalizes. The worst they might do is ignore.

I think there are a couple of question here, but I'll try and answer. By other sites I assume you mean sites you don't own or that share combined hosting. But what does the "additional domain" refer to? Is that sports-memorabilia.cm?

Again the answer is yes go ahead and do that. You won't get penalized.

Now about the content. If these domains are in fact identical in content then you have a problem because Google will just drop one of them. But similar content is not identical content so you can have both pages offering the same merchandise but doing it differently without a problem.

This is the normal virtual server setup. You can check each domains IP with the nslookup www.mydomain.cm command. However whether they share the same IP or simply are on the same IP block doesn't make any difference. I don't think Google is looking at this now, but they may do so in the future.

As I said in the earlier message if you are going to create yet another domain or site to do further crosslinking consider hosting it on a different server or with a different hosting company.

 

If I understand this correctly, you have a single site with several domain names pointing to it. In that case, you are effectively creating mirror sites and risk being penalized, or at the very least have your other sites ignored by Google if you get caught. Mirror sites are not a good idea.

The question about the links pointing to the other domains appears to be a reference to using an absolute address to refer to the same site under another domain name. In other words, you would stay in the same site, but switch to a different domain name. I'm not sure why you would want to do that, but it once again looks like a very bad move.

Correct me if I'm wrong. . .

Craig