Blogs and linking to your website, good or bad?

Hello everyone,

After doing some various reading, I've confused myself yet again!

I have a blog on my website (I sell adult toys) with internal links to my products but after doing a lot of reading, people state that you should have numerous blogs that link back to your main site.

Well last week I finally started doing this (well 2 extra blogs), one is spun content and the other is sex toy reviews with links back to my main site.

Now this week I have read that Google will penalise sites that do this, is this true or just a rumour?

Lots of advice needed and appreciated please?

Thanks in advance.

You are building a small PBN it seems. Engines don't like those but if you do it right you should be good.

Outreach to other webmasters in your niche and get a link back to your site as well.

Thanks for replying, how do I 'do it right?'

I'm also trying to get backlinks but a lot of sites are wanting a lot of money, which I don't have so I'm looking at smaller sites that are growing and trying to get one link in each niche, such as bondage, anal etc to start with.

adult niche is a tough one, mate. Definitely not for newbie SEOers. And it's a tough niche not because the keywords are too competitive (might be true, I don't know cause I've never researched the niche), but because nobody outside of this niche wants to link back to it. Moreover, google sees it as spam

If I were you I would put this website on hold for now and start a new one in any other niche that's not adult, gambling, pharma, guns, etc. until I make enough money to afford taking care of the adult website because, as you said, nobody wants to partner with you unless you pay them money.

That's what I'd do...

2 blogs is not much and is not yet a PBN. its perfectly normal that webmasters have several sites and google doesnt mind if they link to eachother.
so don't worry, you can create more and build yourself a PBN. then you not only have more backlink sources for your main sites, but can also generate more traffic.

You should take your time reading about SEO before trying any random stuff,
The game isn't that simple for real, so going this way, you'll end with a mess most likely

You should have a good read of these guides:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/building-and-ranking-sites-in-2020-the-ultimate-guide.1280323/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/the-no-nonsense-guide-to-building-your-pbn-in-2017.944503/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-tutorials-a-short-beginners-guide-to-blackhat-seo.1134018/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/99-of-people-are-building-backlinks-all-wrong.1272069/

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I know this is a really old post but if you are selling adult toys and a sex toy review blog linked to you that would probably work out to be a good thing, unless they were slagging off your products. I'm not an SEO expert but I've had experience in adult blogs. I am considering reviving my old website actually that's how I came across this post. I'm interested to know how your site is going now?