PageRank Sharing Among Multiple Websites in the Same Domain

Nov 6, 2008 - TechTrench

Now, of course, I know this doesn't work. Google gives little if any value to incoming links from websites served from the same IP address, even if they're similar in theme and content. While one site may have a PageRank of four or five, don't expect to use that site's reputation by linking it to another site on the same server.

If one had the luxury of running multiple servers and websites in several different domains, then this might help, but most of us don't have the luxury. Google makes you work for whatever reputation you hope the websites you run stand to gain.

PageRank provides a means to determine the value of a website for any given search term or phrase. A page's PR value is determined by how websites link together with the more popular (and in theory better) sites receiving more links. It's these incoming links that in part help the site have a high PageRank and in turn a display higher up in search results for whatever terms a website's pages emphasize.

The value of incoming links in the whole scheme of things for PageRank is unknown to any specific degree. But in my observation and in the observations of many others, linking sites together from the same domain doesn't work and shouldn't work either if PR is a true democratic measure of a website's validity.

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PageRank Sharing Among Multiple Websites in the Same Domain: Comment posted by TechTrench on July 21, 2011; Google will only give you credit for the content and network you create with it from one URL. If you're using domain aliasing to serve the content from two domains, Google will see duplicate content. A better thing to do is to choose one URL for your content and use the other one to redirect users via a R301 permanent redirect. What you're proposing to do is a mild form of domain farming.; Read complete comment
PageRank Sharing Among Multiple Websites in the Same Domain: Comment posted by Preston Dentist on July 19, 2011 - Reviewer's website; I have two websites, dentistspreston.co.uk and dentistspreston.com , I have bought the .com only to protect the brand.If I make the other.com to point to my hosting so that regardless of which one the user types, they are taken to the same website, will the PageRank be split into two and will each domain have half the actual PR value?; Read complete comment

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