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I wonder if it is actually wrong to generate backlinks in this way though?  I know there was some guy who used the widgets to advertise unrelated products but that's not what I'm doing.

I had two, one one the front of the poll with our domain name, and a second with "Create your own free poll" on the results (displayed initially as a hidden div which appears once the vote button is hit)

Well I chickened out today and set both links to nofollow as the sites already ranked well before the polls were launched and I don't want to risk it.

I just wish there was some official guidance on this.

Thanks for the replies.

Linking the sites together would be difficult as they are marketed at different segments.

The main sites are well known and marketed to different segments, (free and professional.) People search for them by brand so I wouldn't want to merge them, + that's too many eggs in one basket for my liking.

The third site is a branded toolkit containing the same services plus a couple of others.  It's already had a PR7 site in a related niche merged into a sub folder about a year ago.

My plan was to link (either one way or reciprocal) the free and professional sites to the under-performing mixed bag one.

There is no duplicate content but if anything could cause a problem then I won't do it.

My site provides widgets (online polls) which were developed so that each one would embed a do follow text link into the customers website.

With Panda's unnatural link algorithm now in place should I modify these links to be nofollow and give up on this strategy or alternatively just set the text as my sites domain name?

The only other option I could think of was to only embed links where the customers site had a certain page rank or above?

Any thoughts?

Hi

I currently have two sites within exactly the same market.  I've just purchased a third website from someone.

Should I link these sites together? (i.e. in the page header should I cross link them or point two of them to the third?)

If I do this will it harm them if they are on the same C-Class IP blocks?  Is using private domains and different hosting companies considered dodgey in any way?

Basically I'm a big wimp and don't want to do anything potentially that might potentially hurt my rankings;)

My site provides widgets (online polls) which were developed so that each one would embed a do follow text link into the customers website.

With Panda's unnatural link algorithm now in place should I modify these links to be nofollow and give up on this strategy or alternatively just set the text as my sites domain name?

The only other option I could think of was to only embed links where the customers site had a certain page rank or above?

Any thoughts?