stace - 10:05 pm on Jan 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've never been sure just what degree of crosslinking I can get away with, so I've always tried to be cautious about doing it, even though nearly all of my sites are interrelated and share the same e-commerce store. None of my sites share IP addresses, which I figure has to be a good thing, although I don't have a dedicated server for any of them (too expensive...)

I just sort of figure as long as I keep the ratio of links to my own sites relative to other websites pretty even - I'll be ok. I also have a couple of sites that are only linked by 1 or 2 and not all of the sites. Obviously I have no great strategy in place and try to make it up as I go along! Each site does focus on something different - teaching vs. software vs. music vs. blogging - and it seems logical to me that these sites could all be owned by separate people, who are affiliates of the same store, so if I'm tripping a filter w/ that, a large percentage of Amazon affiliates, etc would as well - and I know that isn't happening...

I'm VERY cautious w/ my PR 6 (at one point it was a PR 7) main website - and don't have any outbound links on my homepage going to any of my other sites. Out of 600 or 700 pages, I'd say less than 10 links are going to other sites in my network from that main site.

If anybody has a good set of dos and do nots w/ regards to interlinking your own sites, I'd love to hear it!