Interlinking Between My Own Sites

Is that bad?

[ideavirus]

Hello,

Is it true that, if i have more than a couple of sites related to same theme and if i interlink between those sites ... google penalises in terms of PR allocation and ranking?

Or is it conisdered legal and ethical enough to do so?!

Thanks for any feedback!
Cheers

[troels nybo nielsen]

The main question is this: Are those links useful for your human visitors? If so there should be no problem. I have hundreds of links between my websites and have never had problems with Google because of them.

Remember that your linking creates a pattern, whether you're aware of it or not. (Exactly like aneything else you do.)

And someone will be able to see that pattern. And see the difference between a linking structure that is designed to help people, and a linking structure that is designed to cheat search engines. Some of us believe that Google have quite a bit of that pattern recognition built into their algorithm,

[plasma]

Some of us believe that Google have quite a bit of that pattern recognition built into their algorithm

Whatever they paid for it, they should get their money back ;)