Linking Strategy (that I've yet to read about in Webmaster World)

Smart, Stupid, or Worthless?

[West of Willamette]

If you have Site A and Site B, and both sites have relatively strong PR (6+) as well as relatively unique backlinks, would it be of value to create 1 or more link pages on Site A containing links to the Site B backlinks as well as 1 or more link pages on Site B containing links to the Site A backlinks? Hopefully, this would raise the PR of the backlink pages an indefinite amount and strengthen each site without crosslinking.

Intuitively, this makes sense and doesn't clearly violate any of the well-known "don't do it" rules. However, I'd like to hear other opinions.

[rfgdxm1]

Sounds dangerous, and like excessive crosslinking to me. If what you are doing seems designed just for search engines, this is risky.

[corpuscle]

It will just create crosslinked groups of 4 sites.

If your sites are A and B, and external site C links to A and external site D links to B, then:

C -> A
D -> B

If you therefore make a link from A -> D, and a link from B -> C, you end up with:

A -> D
D -> B
B -> C
C -> A

which is just third order cross linking. If you repeat this with sites C' and D', C'' and D'', and so on, you'll create a pattern which is not particularly hard to spot.

I agree, this sounds dangerous!