Thinking About Linking Your Sites Together? Well read this first...!

Recently on a video Matt Cutts (Head of Google’s Web Spam team) answered the question of whether or not you should link your sites together. The first point he makes is that you need to have a valid reason for all the different domains/sites, else it might be considered spam.

Second, even if you have a valid reason (i.e., different versions of a website for different countries) he suggests that you should use a drop-down menu or something like that instead of simply pasting all the links at the footer, as many people do.

Finally, even if you have a network of sites he recommends only linking together the ones that are related and relevant to each other, else you might get in trouble.