: Nofollow links between sites owned by same company My company owns 2 websites with the following characteristics: Same categorization and URL structure The inventories are entirely disjoint Site

@Ravi8258870

I agree with the above poster, but I would use something like rel="me". Should be easy to code into the site. At worst it does nothing, at best it at least mitigates the risk of being perceived as a link network.

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@Megan663

I don't see why you need to use nofollow here. Google's examples for using nofollow (link) are:



Untrusted content
Paid links
Crawl prioritization



However I can see your thinking behind wanting to use them; your sites are similar in subject and structure. However, linking between your own sites is not a violation of Google guidelines and they say it makes perfect sense; unless you have many, many sites, all on the same subject, which could look like a link network.

Here is a recent video from Matt Cutts on this exact subject:
Does linking my two sites together violate the quality guidelines?

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