Hosting and SEO

[ratboy]

I am reading a great book Amazon.co.uk: Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of Google and Stay There: David Viney: Books and it discusses that hosting more than 10 sites with a host thereby causes problems once you begin to link between the same sites with the same host as G see's it as link spamming. Interesting as I've thought this for a while. I have about 400 sites linking between each other, quite normally as thats what people want - just wondered if people had any views on it.

I am developing around 1,200 sites over the next 3 years and if this is the case, I wonder if it might be better to have 10 or so reseller accounts and mix all the sites up between them to reduce the effect. Humm

 

[pugyrob]

Hi Johnny,

imo its not a good idea to interlink all your sites together on one ip or indeed from one owner even. I have different servers, different owner details on whois etc etc. this will limit your risk should you ever get a penalty for whatever reason. Linking from relevant pages or within relevant text to your other sites is ok where the links are naturally going to make the site better but just throwing links on 400 names is a recipe for disaster and leaves an obvious footprint in google. Again, if the links genuinelly help i would be alot less worried but still proceed with caution.

You may be ok now but as your sites grow you come under the radar more and are much more likely to get spanked. i had this some years ago and as soon as my sites got top ranked i was getting reported by my competition and got under scrutiny more from the big G. for a big phrase, as i had so many sites linking we ended up with 7 of the top 10 and while this is good its a bit too much and they all got chucked so had to start again.

I tend to focus more on a handfull of sites and keep the others as bargaining chips for when i need a specific link that will help me and the other webmaster is not so willing. At the least keep some sites off the radar.

Rob

 

[ratboy]

Cheers Rob. Do you think nofollow would be an idea here? I'm not after trying a smart trick by linking around, just helping people search.

After all big G knows they are linked, they will run the same analytics account, adwords account and the same adsense account - it knows what I ate for breakfast so must know they are linked. Just seems a massive job if there is a more simple way to tell it that there is nothing spammy going on.

 

[pugyrob]

you could do that but as i say, if the links are actually helpful it may well not be an issue at all. is it a case of say a load of town domains or something like leedsonline, liverpool online etc etc

PM or post the urls it would be easier to give an opinion on seeing the sites.

 

[retired_member32]

I am reading a great book Amazon.co.uk: Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of Google and Stay There: David Viney: Books and it discusses that hosting more than 10 sites with a host thereby causes problems once you begin to link between the same sites with the same host as G see's it as link spamming. Interesting as I've thought this for a while. I have about 400 sites linking between each other, quite normally as thats what people want - just wondered if people had any views on it.

I am developing around 1,200 sites over the next 3 years and if this is the case, I wonder if it might be better to have 10 or so reseller accounts and mix all the sites up between them to reduce the effect. Humm

"1200 sites" that would take me approximately 50 years to build and that would be with one page on each site....

 

[ratboy]

Thats what students are for! You sit there in your leather vibrating chair watching it all happen. Great fun :???:

 

[itrends]

Thats what students are for! You sit there in your leather vibrating chair watching it all happen. Great fun :???:

sicko!

 

[retired_member32]

Thats what students are for! You sit there in your leather vibrating chair watching it all happen. Great fun :???:

i like your entrepreneurial skills.....

 

[ratboy]

Seriously though, most people use students to do the grunt in developing, after all once you have your template the work involved in duplicating or loading up isn't really that skilled. I'm going to Manchester Zoo to steal a monkey.

 

[Jeewhizz]

Rob is spot on If the links are useful, Google will know if it's meant in context, or spammy. If you are over-worried, then use nofollows on the links, and you'll be ok

1,200 sites is an ambitious task!

 

[bensd]

I read a comment (from a respectable member) on another minisite thread that it is a good idea to have a portfolio type of site linking to all of your minisites.

I'm now not sure how true this is, or if this type of approach would be considered link spamming?

BTW Fantastic book, i have just finished reading it. Would definitely recommend it to anyone.

- Ben

 

[ratboy]

1,200 sites is an ambitious task!

Yea, I am either really clever or really stupid.

erm. It didnt work as well as i'd hope.

 

[ariyes]

I like the way this guy think. 1200 websites is a good aim. My best are with you.....

 

[newbie]

Google spends enormous sums of money on developing it's algorithms.

I sometime ago decided there is no point in trying to fool Google, you simply need to have good content and great natural backlinks.

Imagine getting to the top only to find yourself looking over your shoulder hoping that Google (or someone else) won't rumble you?!

Time is best spent building good solid backlinks with good solid content, time spent trying to fool Google is going to be wasted!

There are no shortcuts to the top - once you are there there'll be plenty looking to take your position so be sure you don't feel you have cheated in any way if you want to sleep easy