Are these links to my site bad?
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I am the owner of two diffrent ecommerce sites. Lets call them A and B. Site A is a larg site with ower 5000 pages. In the footer off site A there is a link to site B. Is it bad for site B to get 5000 links (to homepage) from site A?
Should i remove these types off links?
Thanks for your help!
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Thank you for your help. I have changed the links to nofollow.Best,
Marko
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Thank you Karl and you are absolutely correct, if at all we go for cross linking, we should ideally no-follow those links just like we no-follow all the out-bound links pointing to websites that we think will be useful for our visitors. For example, a link to Wikipedia from a page on our website.
Best,
Devanur Rafi
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Totally agree with Devanur here...there is no need for any site-wide link. If there is a link between the two websites then I wouldn't take them off but i would no-follow the link.
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Absolutely right - I agree with you!
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No matter what, site-wide links are not recommended in the post penguin era. Other than the number of links, the intention behind having site-wide links matters which quite doesn't go down Google's throat easily. So better stay away from site-wides and blogrolls.
Best,
Devanur Rafi
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Are these sites on the same server/ IP Address/ C block? That's also something you might want to look into. If they are probably Google will be able to tell if it's the same server and so they won't give all the link juice.
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Hello,
I'll cut straight to my point, my advice would be to set them to nofollow and have the main link on an index/homepage, having that many links won't provide you with any extra real boost. If the site is designed well the follow index link will be just dandy for you. especially if most people link to the homepage on an eCommerce site.
Good luck & I hope this helps
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This is tricky thing - you have to give an answer to the question if this is unnatural linkbuilding first?
If a website gets 5000 links over night this is often an very unnatural behaviour and you make yourself suspicious. Making yourself suspicious for Google means that you risk a penalty (manually or automatically) ... furthermore if Google can verify that you own both websites this is just a confirmation for the black hat technique of unnatural link building.
Be careful and start with a slight amount of links... if both shops have the same or lets say similar content then google will allow a natural linkbuilding between them (e.g. we have several subdomains which profit from a lot of crosslinks but they all have been built up over a long periode of time)
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