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I manage a collection of 3 travel websites with DA's in 50's and 60's and have launched a new site which currently has a DA of 35.

Currently there are no links between sites in the footer. Adding a footer link to new site from the existing stronger sites will be relevant to users on those sites.

How would Google treat such footer links - we would be talking about a link from 5000+ pages from 3 sites?
Would it help us on the new site? Damage the new site?
Could it impact negatively on the currently strong websites?

Thanks

Hi

We have a travel site with over 3000 pages in English. Of these around 200 relate to products and the rest are content articles, most of which with very low traffic.

Certain products and pages appeal directly to users in different languages (around 20-30 out of 200 for each language).

We are debating how to go about translating these pages...

If we did "oursite.com/es/product", "oursite.com/de/product", etc then users entering the site on these translated pages from Google would be limited to seeing a very cut down site, bearing in mind most speak English and would also be able to interact with our English language content we are probably losing out.

Also, if we detected user language on entry, we would show effectively hide most of our product and content from users.

Any suggestions or ideas about how to go about this without losing engagement/conversions/creating a mess?

We dont really have duplication at all

Thanks a lot!

Hi there

We have 5 separate sites which handle different regions/niches that we work in, and we are planning to merge into one so we have a logical path for 301 redirects. The sites have DA's as follows:

Site 1 - DA 36
Site 2 - DA 31
Site 3 - DA 29
Site 4 - DA 27
Site 5 - DA 20

Does anyone have any experience with how the DA would flow through to the new site?

Each site currently relates to a different niche that we work with, and we are planning to keep the content structured similarly, probably like this: https://newtoplevelsite/site1/products,  https://newtoplevelsite/site2/products and so on. That makes 301 redirects easy and also gives us more control in managing users and different teams in Wordpress. We would link the different niches through the top menu and links within the pages. Is there a better solution? Would it make more sense to have  https://newtoplevelsite/products/site1,  https://newtoplevelsite/products/site2, and so on?

Thanks for the ideas

Thanks for the answer, Miriam.

So in that case, the original question still stands..

Hey Patrick

Thanks it totally does make sense, and I really appreciate the detailed answer.

One question though is that for tours in particular, local SEO seems to somehow be a little contradictory to me. Because I will optimize to my location, which is an office, but not a place that any of my customers ever come to, because they are all traveling on transport to different destinations. So in other words local SEO is going to strengthen me in Tel Aviv, for instance where my office is, but not at the Dead Sea which is what my users are searching for. Maybe I'm short-sighted, but I'd love to hear what you think?

Thanks a lot

Hey Mozers

This is a question which has been bugging me for a while now

I have an authority site in my niche which has a stronger DA than pretty well every competitor, but certain sections of the site underperform.

For instance, when you search for 'Jerusalem Dead Sea tour', my item, http://www.touristisrael.com/tours/jerusalem-dead-sea-day-tour/ does not appear in the first few pages. I have a page that appears on the first page, but it is less relevant than this product page. This is an example, there are tens of cases like this.

So the question is, am I signalling to Google not to rank these pages, and is there something I'm missing with regards to strengthening product pages in this tour section?

Thanks