Best Way to Link all Sites? On and Off Niche

**ProxySites.ca** · 9 September, 2009, 19:12 PM

Hey Guys,

Just couple quick questions

What have you found to be the best way to promote and link sites together between each other? What is the proper way of 3 waying links?

Also, how do you link different niche sites to one another so that your links and SEO is still counted towards being relevant instead of "useless backlinks?"

Thanks!

**bogart** · 14 September, 2009, 11:56 AM

Interlinking is a bad idea. Use oneway links and the rel-me attribute.

**ProxySites.ca** · 14 September, 2009, 12:04 PM

Hey bogart, thanks for the advice! What is "rel-me"?

Thank You!

**bogart** · 14 September, 2009, 12:18 PM

The social sites use rel attribute. The rel attribute defines the relationship of the linking page to the target page.

<a href="Example Web Page" rel="me">...

I've seen Google penalize big sites that had interlinking sitewide links. At the minimum I suggest to only link from the homepage and not use reciprocal sitewides.

**Will.Spencer** · 24 September, 2009, 09:42 AM

Sitewides in general seem to be useless these days.

I've been doing massive crosslinking between my sites, on individual content pages.

I haven't seen a penalty from this yet, but I also haven't seen it rocket my SERPS either.

**Kovich** · 24 September, 2009, 09:45 AM

So how does Google feel about rel="me" attributes, then?

Would it be worth using them?

**Jenie0109** · 9 October, 2009, 07:37 AM

Do not indulge your site on link farms...

**hambo** · 16 October, 2009, 19:21 PM

I would only interlink sites if they are related and then only as a one way link, I think google is pretty good at spotting link exchanges these days, even if it is a 3 way.

**seo** · 17 October, 2009, 21:49 PM

I've been doing 1 way and 3 way exchanges both with same efficiency under different parameters of course for many years now.

**bogart** · 19 October, 2009, 14:57 PM

Originally Posted by Kovich

So how does Google feel about rel="me" attributes, then?

Would it be worth using them?

I'm not sure how Google feels about them. But rel="me" attributes are used by the social sites and Google is aware of them.

Most likely a penalty for sitewide interlinking is manual. Perhaps by using the rel="me" attributes you can use it as a defense in your reinclusion request.

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Sitewides in general seem to be useless these days.

I've been doing massive crosslinking between my sites, on individual content pages.

I haven't seen a penalty from this yet, but I also haven't seen it rocket my SERPS either.

The only problem that I have seen in the past is sitewide crosslinking on sites with thousands of pages.