(Entry was posted by Steven Ciccantelli on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/13/2013).

Should I link my site to my other website that has back links and some SEO juice or vice versa?

I opened up a Google site don`t know why it took me so long should I link that site to my other website that has back links and some SEO juice or vice versa?

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Christina S: No. If you start crosslinking your own sites you are engaging in manipulation for the purpose of influencing pagerank. This is against guidelines. At best it's ineffective. At worst (and quite likely) it's going to bring penalties for all the sites involved.
Steven Ciccantelli: +Christina S OK Thank you.
Simon Fryer: +Steven Ciccantelli it depends on the relationship between the two sites. Cross linking will not do you any harm if it adds value to users.
Christina S: Right but if the purpose is to enhance pagerank, then it will. If you use rel="nofollow" you'd bring traffic but not manipulate pagerank.
Steven Ciccantelli: +Simon Fryer it would just be linking a more professional site into a rather lame one but it might add value to the user.
Christina S: Well if you want my advice, you should not use Google SItes for anything serious. ;Make a subdomain on your own official site if you need to extend your site somehow. A google SIte is NOT professional and the platform suffers from many ;problems (no redirections are possible, no canonical handling, just for starters).
Steven Ciccantelli: +Christina S a little confused as I was hoping that Google would be treat the site webpage as friendly but I will take your advice so thank you.
Greg Kristan: I agree with +Christina S ;on what she was saying. Google can see that you are registered to multiple domains and once you start linking each other up it could be seen as trying to artificially raise your rankings. ;
Christina S: You can link them using rel="nofollow", which would take care of crosslinking issues. But I don't see what you can say on a Google SIte that you cannot say on your own site, where it would be more directly useful. Duplicating content on 2 or more sites only brings more problems.
W.E. Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:39:47 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/should_i_link_my_site_to_my_other_website_that_has_back_links_and_some_seo_juice_or_vice_versa