Are my great Google results boosted by linking from my own site?

I've designed 2 small sites for other people, all of which are number
1 - 5 on Google for the various keywords I targeted.

I have linked to these 2 sites from my own site on the "about" page as
a subtle advertisement of my design services. My own main site has a
PR5 which apparently isn't that great but the page I link to them from
is PR3 which explains why the other sites have just PR2

What I'm concerned about is this, if I hadn't linked to the other
sites from my own, would they achieve the same good results? I don't
want to think that unless I link to all new sites I design they won't
be so effective.

Also, does it do any damage to my own site, to link to all other sites
I've designed which are not remotely themed with my own subject?

Cheers

Andy
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Andy wrote:

Also, does it do any damage to my own site, to link to all other sites
I've designed which are not remotely themed with my own subject?

I'd say this has more of an effect on engines like Teoma, which take account of
the theme in their algorithm. The effect is not going to be significant enough
to lose sleep over though.


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The main benefit of linking to your clients site is that this will ensure
that the site is indexed by Google, assuming that your site is indexed in
the first instance then the spider that revisits your site should find
theirs on the next crawl.

With respect to linking back, since Google puts significance on the wording
within the link then a short website design by.... will certainly assist
your rank on the long term.

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"xyZed" <xyzed (AT) mymask_blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote

I've designed 2 small sites for other people, all of which are number
1 - 5 on Google for the various keywords I targeted.

I have linked to these 2 sites from my own site on the "about" page as
a subtle advertisement of my design services. My own main site has a
PR5 which apparently isn't that great but the page I link to them from
is PR3 which explains why the other sites have just PR2

What I'm concerned about is this, if I hadn't linked to the other
sites from my own, would they achieve the same good results? I don't
want to think that unless I link to all new sites I design they won't
be so effective.

Also, does it do any damage to my own site, to link to all other sites
I've designed which are not remotely themed with my own subject?

Cheers

Andy
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xyZed <xyzed (AT) mymask_blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in
news:nthlfv4h86dun0omrcblb39f7g8qluga8k (AT) 4ax (DOT) com:

I've designed 2 small sites for other people, all of which are number
1 - 5 on Google for the various keywords I targeted.

What I'm concerned about is this, if I hadn't linked to the other
sites from my own, would they achieve the same good results? I don't
want to think that unless I link to all new sites I design they won't
be so effective.

'Fraid that is the case for new sites.

Established sites with decent linkage will not need a link from your site,
but new and low-PageRank ones really need the boost, and you can really see
the difference it makes.

I can see I'm going to end up running a mini-directory at this rate: I have
the same problem.

I wish there was some way to get the established sites to link direct to
the ones that need a bit of a leg-up, but it never seems to work that way.

Also, does it do any damage to my own site, to link to all other sites
I've designed which are not remotely themed with my own subject?

I don't think so, but I am currently reorganising mine so they are a bit
more coherently organised than 'here's a list of wot I dun', which I think
is a positive move anyway, regardless of SEO.

Victoria

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"xyZed" <xyzed (AT) mymask_blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
news:nthlfv4h86dun0omrcblb39f7g8qluga8k (AT) 4ax (DOT) com...
I've designed 2 small sites for other people, all of which are number
1 - 5 on Google for the various keywords I targeted.

I have linked to these 2 sites from my own site on the "about" page
as a subtle advertisement of my design services. My own main site
has a PR5 which apparently isn't that great but the page I link to
them from is PR3 which explains why the other sites have just PR2

What I'm concerned about is this, if I hadn't linked to the other
sites from my own, would they achieve the same good results? I don't
want to think that unless I link to all new sites I design they won't
be so effective.

Also, does it do any damage to my own site, to link to all other
sites I've designed which are not remotely themed with my own
subject?

stupid question, but what is a PR 12345 or 6 or ???

link to readmore ?

http://www.google.com/technology/index.html

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If you feel that any of the above is incorrect,
inappropriate or offensive in any way,
please ignore it and accept my apologies.

Page rank is a measure of the votes given to the page by all the pages
linking to it. Good origin pages, with high PR scores, send more votes.
You also do better if the origin page has only a few links rather than
hundreds which dilutes the voting. The voting scale is probably non-linear
so PR4 is several times (some suggest 10 times) better than PR3.

Your two small new sites: To give them the best boost you should link to
the new sites from the best page on your site, with high PR. When you write
the links put about 4-5 words in the link that match the target web site
title, descriptions and content text. I think theme is irrelevent, what
matters is the words underlined in the link. If you (or someone else) had
not linked to the new sites they may have never appeared in Google at all.
You can also submit sites and that will do the trick but just putting in a
link is sufficient (and better).

Outgoing links from your site do give away votes that you might otherwise
have directed at your own pages, so it is argueable that doing this reduces
the score of your own site pages. My view is not to worry about this too
much but concentrate on putting links that actually point to good pages.
Anyway these two web sites you did, can't you put in links back to your site
saying "Web site design by Andy". This way they help you in return.

Please tell us the urls of your main site and the two others and we might be
able to help you further.

Best regards, Eric


".:J:." <MONKEYselskab-at-bigfoot.com> wrote

stupid question, but what is a PR 12345 or 6 or ???

link to readmore ?


"xyZed" <xyzed (AT) mymask_blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
news:nthlfv4h86dun0omrcblb39f7g8qluga8k (AT) 4ax (DOT) com...
I've designed 2 small sites for other people, all of which are number
1 - 5 on Google for the various keywords I targeted.

I have linked to these 2 sites from my own site on the "about" page as
a subtle advertisement of my design services. My own main site has a
PR5 which apparently isn't that great but the page I link to them from
is PR3 which explains why the other sites have just PR2

What I'm concerned about is this, if I hadn't linked to the other
sites from my own, would they achieve the same good results? I don't
want to think that unless I link to all new sites I design they won't
be so effective.

Also, does it do any damage to my own site, to link to all other sites
I've designed which are not remotely themed with my own subject?

Cheers

Andy
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It's a cruel world we live in. A man's lucky if he gets out alive.

www.washerhelp.com [remove mymask_ to email]