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MakeMoney · **Joined**: 21 Jul 2004 **Posts**: 119

It's a shame he had to lose that much from an error but it is a valuable lesson to everyone - it really drills home the point not to crosslink and to be very careful in this regard.

Do you guys think that one way links could pose a danger? Say you have ten sites. You make a new site, the 11th. You want to introduce it to google. So you link to it from say two of your sites - a one way link from one or two of your own sites to your new site. Do you guys think that there could be a problem with this? Especially as you up the number of your sites with the one way link? Personally, I keep it just to one site and then I off the link once it makes google.

robertb · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

It might not cause a direct problem, but it leads room for other mistakes. For example, say one of your sites trades links with another site not owned by you. Then for whatever reason, the site owned by the other person is assigned a 0 PR penalty.

Unless you can catch this soon, because you link to this "bad neighborhood" that has been penalized by Google, then the 0 PR penalty can propogate to your site. Then say I link to this site of mine from 20 other sites of my own. Well, now that my site has been assigned a 0 PR penalty, my 20 sites linking into that site could suffer the same problem.

Can you see the propogation of a penalty across a network, even though there isn't crosslinking? I personally think this was part of why James was hit so bad, it started with a site or two and spread.

MakeMoney · **Joined**: 21 Jul 2004 **Posts**: 119

that sounds very logical

thank you very much robertb

Josh · **Joined**: 22 Aug 2004 **Posts**: 30

If you are worried you can introduct your new site by linking to it from some other site, like a directory site or an article site or a forum post. Google will find it that way and it doesn't connect to your other sites. Very Happy

MakeMoney · **Joined**: 21 Jul 2004 **Posts**: 119

I've noticed that on one of James sites he has an image on it that is being called from another of his sites. Seems unusual, I don't see it on other pages of the site. Perhaps its an error? Or maybe it is done on purpose or doesnt really matter? I haven't really looked at it in depth but maybe its possibly contributing to some crosslinking related problems?

johncpu · **Joined**: 30 Oct 2004 **Posts**: 100

a couple of posts above, robertb mentioned the "penalty" of a PR 0. Is that a firm rule - never link to another page with a PR of 0 ? That seems a bit too rigid given that PR is not always valid.

john

robertb · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:

John,

All new sites have a PR of 0, so it is quite alright to link to those. But a site that has had any PR before, and then receives a 0 PR, is PROBABLY suffering from a penalty.

Another was to ascertain this is to see if their site is still showing up in the Google index.
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johncpu · **Joined**: 30 Oct 2004 **Posts**: 100

Thanks robertb.. I can sigh a bit of relief now since I've linked with a few of those PR zero sites. Im still wondering about the idea of having your own PR diluted by those. Anythought ?

john

Debs · **Joined**: 16 Aug 2003 **Posts**: 4296 **Location**: NY

Your PR doesn't get diluted by linking to PR0 sites any more than it does by linking to PR8 sites.

It's the total number of links on the page that "dilute" your PR ... if you have 20 internal links and 20 outgoing links, 50% of your PR available to pass is sent offsite. If you have 30 internal links and 10 outgoing links on a page, then only 25% of your PR available to pass is sent offsite, thereby retaining more to flow within your site.

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