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Cross-site link map

You asked because main site pages and the microsite both seemed to link to each other — they do, but only in one direction. Every arrow below is a real outbound link found in a live crawl of iqsdirectory.com, blowermanufacturers.org, and a company profile page, not an assumption about how the network "should" work. See the main site's own internal structure for the page-type breakdown within iqsdirectory.com itself — this page is about what crosses between properties.

1 directionmicrosites link into the main site; the main site never links back to a microsite
3 propertiesiqsdirectory.com, ~212 microsites (1 sampled), news.iqsdirectory.com
Shared contentPower Page articles are the SAME pages, linked from both the main site and every microsite
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graph LR

  subgraph MICRO["blowermanufacturers.org (1 of ~212 microsites)"]
    direction TB
    MHOME["Microsite homepage
real live homepage"] MLOGO["Header logo"] MFOOT["Footer cross-sell tiles
~20 unrelated category links"] MPOWER["'Blower Power Pages' rail
9 article cards"] MRFQ["Its own RFQ form
stays on this microsite"] end subgraph MAIN["iqsdirectory.com (main directory)"] direction TB MSHOME["Homepage"] MSCAT["Category pages
/blowers/, /air-compressors/, etc."] MSART["Power Page articles
/articles/{topic}/{article}.html
SAME pages the microsite links to"] MSPROF["Company profile pages
/profile/{company}-{id}"] end subgraph SUB["Subdomains & sister brands"] direction TB NEWSD["news.iqsdirectory.com
company press releases"] DATASVC["iqsdataservices.com
sister brand, homepage footer link"] end EXT["Companies' OWN websites
e.g. thurometal.com, marseng.com
real outbound links from category + profile pages"] MLOGO -->|"real link, confirmed"| MSCAT MFOOT -->|"~20 real links, confirmed"| MSCAT MPOWER -->|"real links, confirmed"| MSART MHOME -.contains.-> MLOGO MHOME -.contains.-> MFOOT MHOME -.contains.-> MPOWER MHOME -.contains.-> MRFQ MSHOME -->|"sister-brand link"| DATASVC MSPROF -->|"real link, confirmed"| NEWSD MSPROF -->|"real link, confirmed"| EXT MSCAT -->|"real link, confirmed"| EXT MSART -.internal cross-link.-> MSCAT MAIN2["No link found FROM main site TO any microsite
checked: category pages, articles, homepage"] MICRO -. "checked, not found" .- MAIN2 classDef micro fill:#3a2410,stroke:#FF8A1E,color:#fff3e6,stroke-width:2px,rx:10,ry:10; classDef main fill:#1a2e57,stroke:#2F6FED,color:#eef2ff,stroke-width:2px,rx:10,ry:10; classDef sub fill:#14261e,stroke:#3ddc97,color:#e7fff4,stroke-width:1.5px,rx:10,ry:10; classDef ext fill:#1b1f29,stroke:#2a2f3a,color:#e7e9ee,stroke-dasharray:3 2,rx:8,ry:8; classDef absent fill:#1b1f29,stroke:#6b7280,color:#9aa2b1,stroke-dasharray:4 3,rx:8,ry:8; classDef grp fill:#14161c,stroke:#333947,color:#9aa2b1,stroke-dasharray:4 3; class MHOME,MLOGO,MFOOT,MPOWER,MRFQ micro; class MSHOME,MSCAT,MSART,MSPROF main; class NEWSD,DATASVC sub; class EXT ext; class MAIN2 absent; class MICRO,MAIN,SUB grp;
Microsite (blowermanufacturers.org) Main site (iqsdirectory.com) Subdomain / sister brand Confirmed absent (checked, not found)
The real finding: this is a one-directional SEO funnel, not a two-way web. Every microsite pushes link equity and leads INTO the main directory (via its header logo, a ~20-item footer cross-sell grid, and a "Power Pages" article rail that links to the exact same articles the main site itself hosts) — but nothing on iqsdirectory.com's category pages, articles, or homepage links back out to any microsite. Checked directly: the main site's category and article pages only link outward to companies' own independent websites (thurometal.com, marseng.com, etc.) and to IQS's own YouTube channel, never to a `*.org`/`*.net` microsite domain. This matches the classic satellite-site architecture the About page describes ("supplemented by 212 vertical industry microsites... for further target keyword rankings") — the microsites exist to feed the hub, not to be fed by it.

What links where (confirmed, source noted)

FromToMechanismSource
Microsite header logoMain site category pageSingle logo link (e.g. → /blowers/)blowermanufacturers.org homepage crawl
Microsite footer~20 unrelated main-site category pages"Air Handling Equipment" + "Featured Industries" tile gridsblowermanufacturers.org homepage crawl
Microsite "Power Pages" railMain site's own /articles/...9 article cards, same content the main site hostsblowermanufacturers.org homepage crawl
Main site company profilenews.iqsdirectory.com"Articles and Press Releases" linksBurkert USA Corporation profile crawl
Main site homepageiqsdataservices.comSister-brand footer logo linkiqsdirectory.com homepage crawl
Main site category + profile pagesCompanies' own external websitesOutbound "visit website" linksCNC machining category + Burkert profile crawls
Main site (any page)Any micrositeChecked, not foundCategory page, article page, and homepage crawls
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