Linking strategy between my websites

[Yafiz]

Dear all,

I am quite new in SEO and I am very confused about linking strategy.

I have several websites proposing proofreading services in French and I don't know how to link them together so they get the best chance to have a good ranking.

What strategy would you suggest ?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Yafiz

[CWPSEO]

Ok well i will start by telling you that make sure that the sites are not the same code, just a different domain.  Google looks for that and its considered "Black Hating".  But say they are different it will all depend on the page rank of each site. Too get the best results use multiple links (IE: I build websites for my customers and when i do i put my site link at the bottom, but within my site i also link back to them.) This is were it gets tricky to get the most for the link say I build a roofing website for someone.  My SEO company has nothing to do with roofing, but i do websites so i would build a page that give some info on the clients site. Like what they had in mind when we built it and so on.

But linking from one to other will not do much if your just put a link on the page, make sure the link is relevant to the page its linking too. Also i would put them within a blog or content.

Joel Newport

[TheeDigital]

I would be careful. When you say "multiple websites" a few alarms go off in my head. You definitely don't want to get in trouble with duplicate content.

Also with multiple websites you might have a content issue. Why don't you put all of that content in one place and condense everything to one website.

[Yafiz]

Thanks Joel and Richard for your answers.

You make me wondering whether my strategy is good.

Here is the strategy : I have a website about proofreading service in wordpress. I have other domains whose name are my critical keywords. I was planning to copy/paste my main website on the secondary sites and obviously to change the content to avoid duplicate content (but wordpress template and design will be exactly the same on all the sites).

Once this is done I was planning to link the websites together.

Is there any risk of being classified ''black hat'' by Google ?

Thanks a lot,

Dan