google webmaster and multiple sites

[imaginarynumber]

Hi all

Just wondering whether or not google gives less weight to sites that link to each other if they are all registered with the same google Webmaster account.

Thanks in advance

 

[sidera]

For questions related to SEO best practices, I suggest reading Google's own SEO guide :http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291

any other theories would be pure speculation, as the algorithms are Google's best kept secret.

anyway, I don't think this is something you should worry about. the most important is quality unique content that is relevant to you target audience.

 

[Experienced IT guy]

There are many factors that Google takes into account- I believe a figure of 2,800 was quoted a year or so ago. There are many valid reasons why this situation may occur. From a common sense point of view (because Google makes it easy to add sites to a single account) I can only see that Google would see fit penalise other sites if one of them was indulging in paid links or other frowned upon practises.