Where is the line in cross site linking

[liman]

i run ten web sites. the sites are not cross linked.

site (A) which is a large site links to all ten sites on all of its pages, about 500 pages. i do this because they are all designed by my web design company, which i state. I use the same footer and header to make it easyier to update the site.

now i have designed a large site (B) with about 5000 pages which links to the other 8 sites, but not to site (A).

the other 8 sites do not link back to site (A) or (B).

So (A) links to all.
(B) links to 8 sites, but not (A)
8 sites that don't link back to (A) or (B)

sound confusing.. :)

Do you think i will get a penalty for this?

thanks

[ciml]

It seems slightly odd to link to ten domains from each of the 500 pages on site A, but your description doesn't sound to me like the famous heavy cross-linking penalty.

None of us can be sure that you'll be safe, though. Who knows what penalties Google will introduce next month, or the month after.

[liman]

thanks for looking at my situation ciml. i guess i will take a calculated risk. hopefully the google gods will not look down upon it.