Google Analytics and backlinking
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Let say I have my main site and my secondary site that is optimized for a slightly different set of keywords (nonetheless still relevant to my main site). I have several links from a secondary site to my main site. Secondary site is on a different C-block.
Do you ladies and gentlemen think that if I put both websites under the same google analytics account, Google is going to penalize me or remove some of the juice that is flowing from secondary site to the main site because it would detect through GA that both sites belong to the same entity?
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In my opinion even purest white hat SEO is a form of "gaming the system". Setting the title of the web page to something SEO friendly is gaming a system. So yes, I am trying to "game the system" aka do SEO.
So you are saying that if I have two legitimate websites, I must not have a link from one of them to the other because it would be "a matter of time before you get slammed." ? And you think that having both sites on the same GA may contribute to it.
Is there a chance some else can add to that? I understand that no one knows for sure, except Google, how GA affects that sort of thing, so all I can hope for is guesses.
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Potentially if you are trying to game the system. Why not just build it out all the main site? And then 301 the one domain and all relevant pages to the new relevant pages.
If it is not as relevant to your site, you could make a technical resources section where you can store that information or a kind of dictionary/reference section.
It is hard for me to come up with ideas not having much information but hopefully the above gets the ball rolling as I only see this as a matter of time before you get slammed.
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