Interlinking Your Sites - Good or Bad Idea?

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Hi Guys

I've been hit quite bad for almost a year now with the various Panda/Penguin updates. I've lost around 80% of my traffic in total through a few sites I own.

Now most of my sites have a similar theme/topic , all of them link to each other, the links take you to relevant content that would be helpful for any visitor, so I assumed I was doing the right thing. I rarely link to other sites that I don't own.

Do you think this strategy is risky?
I can see no harm in linking to my other sites if it will benefit the visitor.

What with all these changes recently, I just don't know if this linking to my other sites may be affecting my rankings?

Any ideas?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author juninho14
    you should interlink sites you dont own. Theres a search (if somebody remembers, please tell us) that can show the links your website is pointing to. So, if the links are relevant to your website, i think it should improve in a certain way your organic results .

    About interlink your websites, i do that and it works. Dont know if this action can harm my websites in any way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    Other then my own personal feelings and gut.. I avoid it, it is obvious Google is looking for any signs of a scheme is being hunted for so I give them nothing to find. Besides, there are more links to go find rather then have a possible risk
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnperal
    I would interlink only if... they are on different hosting company or different ips, also different CMS and/or templates and different domain whois, those are the ones that comes to my mind rite now.

    If there is any way google can find ure the same owner.. I personally wont.
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  • Profile picture of the author wlasikiewicz
    Some people say its bad but to me a backlink is a backlink.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    If it makes sense to do it, go ahead. With similar themes there shouldn't be a problem, but there's no need to use exact anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author chiwawa
    Interlinking is not bad, it is a very crucial part of seo. Its about getting your webpages to interconnect with each other. In my opinion, interlink helps most search engines spiders to navigate your website easily. I don't think its harmful.
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