What is Cross-linking?

[rintrah]

I've been reading a ton of posts about how cross-linking is a no no.

But what is cross-linking? Would a page linking to another page on the same site count? EG: Large business may need large widgets [link to large widgets page].

Dumb question I'm sure, but I'd like to clarify things in my own mind

[mil2k]

A link from a site's page to another of it's page is not cross linking IMHO. Cross linking comes into picture when you have 2 or more sites and you link many pages from your sites to one another. Understanding Excessive cross linking is difficult. In general if you have a new site then avoid linking structures which try to manipulate PR. One way to avoid excessive cross linking is to think it from user point of view. Is it beneficial for the user?

An example of excessive cross linking :-

You have 5 sites with 5 pages each. You give a link to each and every page of the 5 sites from each of the site's page. (i.e. you have 25 links on each of the pages) This is just an example to give you an idea of the issue at stake.

And no it's not a dumb question , many of the senior fellows still have different ideas about this issue. :) HTH.

[tigger]

rintrah

You could also try using the site search here and you will come up with loads of past posting on this subject