Linking between properties

[studio35design]

I own 3 domains. One is my blog, one is my photography business site, and one is my graphic/web design site. They are all hosted on the same VPS account.

I link between each site. Also, since the links are either in the nav, footer or sidebar, all pages from one page link to the homepage of each other.

Is this an issue for SEO? Should I not be doing this? Would it be beneficial to use a no follow link instead if I'm to keep them?

[DennisSeymour]

you'll probably get responses here to nofollow them or to remove them just to be safe.

Personally, I just don't worry about it. I've never had problems with it in the past as long as all my links are not like that.

[JaneCopland]

Agree with Dennis, if you were relying on this method alone for all your link building, you're going to have a bad time. However, it's perfectly natural for sites owned by the same person or company to link to each other. The best-practice warnings of "nofollow everything!" exist because people abuse and overdo this sort of linking. If you think any of these sites might otherwise be in trouble for any reason, consider being as safe as possible and nofollowing, but I doubt you have to.

[studio35design]

The site all follow good practices, so I don't foresee an issue and those are not the only backlinks they have. Thanks guys!