PageRank Sharing Among Multiple Websites in the Same Domain

Nov 06, 2008 - TechTrench

I remember when I first began hosting my own websites that I would link them together in the hopes of improving their PageRank.

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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