Secret to Blogging & Making Money Online

Well, this is a tricky question, and the answer depends on several factors. So, let us consider few simple examples and analyze things in detail.

Let us assume that you’ve an SEO blog (like this one), and you frequently write valuable SEO tips for your readers. At the same time, you own an auto blog, a gadget review blog, several technology blogs, an online dating blog, a programming blog, a travel blog, a movie review blog, and a music blog.

And, if you try to link a blog entry in one of your technology blogs to all the other blogs, then it may be counted as SPAM or BlackHat SEO in the eyes of Google simply because a technology related blog has got nothing in common with a travel blog, music blog, online dating blog, and a movie review blog.

Therefore, links coming from your technology blog to the rest of the blogs may be considered as links from a link farm. Basically, there’s a very thin line between heavy cross linking, and creating a link farm.

Ideally, you should not create more than 2-3 links in a blog post of say 300-500words. However, if you’ve highly relevant articles to link to, you may even consider linking to up to 5-6 other web pages.

But, if you insert 8-10 links in every other blog post that you create, you’re creating a link farm unknowingly!

So, the bottom-line is that you should consider inter-linking pages of your blogs only if they share common information, not just because they’re all yours!