Perfect! (but I would expect no less from my SE Hero)...

I don't know if I ever told you, but the advice you gave me on getting better rankings for my critters by splitting them onto several pages and matching various page elements worked perfectly... and almost instantly! (Alas, I've only had time to do it with one critter, but the results were amazing and I will eventually do it throughout the whole site.)

> You make changes at your own risk. If SE's drop you, penalize or otherwise
> derank you, it's your own fault, not mine.

No way!! I'll come hunting for you with a tray of petrified brownies!!

> I use to cross link some of my sites on every page in the template. Mostly
> the SEs didn't mind. Occassionally a site disappeared out of Google when
> it was cross linked too much. However, if I reduced the cross linking to
> that site in Google, it reappeared.

That's good news. Some people claim once you're gone, you're gone, which has never made good sense to me.

> In terms of SE traffic, my highest traffic site, has many links to another
> site, on hundreds of pages (2-5 links per page, each to a different page
> of the other site). THe main site is loved by MSN, Google, Ask, Yahoo,
> etc., [although to be fair, the traffic fell by half in the last 2 weeks,
> but this may be a Summer holiday effect]. The other site is hated by
> Google - it is PR0 despite by indexed and linked from many places on the
> net - and I've even tried banning Google spider from it, except the main
> page, in order to try to get it back into Google.

WHOA!!

That sounds *exactly* like what I'm doing -- except I'm linking FROM the "other" site TO the high-traffic site... and in your case, the site receiving all the links is the site that's hated.

I understand my mileage may vary, but I'm not taking a chance on damaging the high-traffic site in an effort to help it.

I'm going to cut *WAY* back on links.

THANKS!!

Luv,