How Would You Link These Sites

[cz]

I have two e-commerce sites (under my signature) and a blog http://safetyenforcement.blogspot.com

I had tons and tons of one way links from the blog to the related e-commerce site.

After Jagger mowed me down, I went through the blog and stripped 100's of text links pointing to section and product pages that they were relevant to.

I found out my code for the affected site was delivering tons of HTML errors and have been fiing them - but it's a long haul.

MY QUESTION: how would you recommend that I link these sites (if at all) to gain benefit but not to spam links. I feel like an 1 1/2 hrs writing a fresh article, merits "some" links - I just don't want to SPAM the e-commerce site.

How would you link them? Would you include a spattering of text links from relevant posts on the blog. Presently I have removed it from my side nav bar and out of all posts.

Sorry for the long post and hope someone will share some knowledge with me. I think I have code errors and found a lot of poor title tags (going to re-write them as I correct the code errors) - not a Link Spam penalty. What do you think?

[dburdon]

CZ,

a first page ranking on Yahoo or MSN is worth much more than a minor page ranking on Google. If you weren't spamming there's not much a plaintive response will achieve.

If you think you've been Jaggered unfairly by Google, move on.

If you were spamming. Take the medicine.

[cz]

dburdon,
I'm not sure what you mean? The self defense site ranks in the top spots on Yahoo! & MSN. The big change was Jagger knocking it back a few pages from top five listings. I've always thought Y! & MSN visitors were "tire-kickers" compared to the sales that Google traffic brought.

As far as spam: I felt it might be spamming but have noticed the terms I've lost, slowly going up a position or two every day. That's encouraging enough to believe it wasn't the links from my blog (spamming) causing a penalty. I see a lot of blogs and sites so spammed and interlinked, you'd think they'd be removed from the index. I wouldn't mention anyone in particular though ;)

Thus, the question on a 3 way link model for me.

Thanks for your reply!

[incrediblehelp]

cz,

Link for the end user and when it is relevant to do so, not for positioning on the search engines.