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Dana

Thanks very much for your answer I am of the same belief, I think Matt Cutts has just got me all concerned from reading to much about linking penalties and the ever confusing "Information of Mis-information"  as I affectionately call it in the office.

have a great day.

Ryan

Hi mozzers

I have a question that I need some feedback on please, I run 2 websites both e commerce retail sites and both doing well with SEO however, Our strongest site and parent site so to speak links to our sister site.

Here is the  outline.

Site1 parent site is hosted on a unique URL and on a VPS. I have 384 links coming into this site from the other sister site. from various pages

Site 2 the sister site, has 68,864 links coming in from site 1 as we have a link in the footer on site 1 to the home page of site 2.

So far we have had no adverse affects from the Google zoo releases, however I am concerned that this many links will soon get penalized.

Thoughts from anyone please? I am considering removing the footer link, thus removing 68,000 + incoming links.

Looking for any advice here please.

thanks

Ryan

Hi there from my understanding as I have had similar situations there are 2 schools of thought on this subject.

School 1 No Follows are a waste of time and as such should no tbe concerned or bothered with.

School 2 No Follows whilst not juicing the site play a part in a more balanced linking structure and a better overall make up of the total amount of links one's site has.

Ok now as I say I am self taught over the last 12 years, and I went to the search engine school of hard knocks so I stand to be corrected but I approach our companies SEO with the following policy on this, bearing in mind nearly all SEO stats sites including our best chums here at SEO MOZ including follow and no follow in reports it makes sense to me to have a balance of both, and reading between the lines with the guys at Google they are saying the same. So a good mix of both I believe is the best recipe.

Best wishes

Ryan

Dana

Thanks very much for your answer I am of the same belief, I think Matt Cutts has just got me all concerned from reading to much about linking penalties and the ever confusing "Information of Mis-information"  as I affectionately call it in the office.

have a great day.

Ryan