It is probably not something that the SE's would eagerly embrace. If I were in your shoes, as long as your other sites being linked to are legit and hopefully at least as good as the other 11000, they I would do it. If the links to the sites are good for the users, and you're not being sneaky about it, then why the heck not. Sometimes we so fear what the SE's might do that we avoid things that in fact are fine, just so we don't get in trouble.

Question: If what you are doing with your sites and links tripped SE filters of some sort, and many of your sites went bust, would you feel comfortable approaching the SE and openly discussing your case? If so, you're probably fine.

The more tricky/sneaky it is, the higher the risk.

I can't very well not add my own sites since my link list since is is the main source of traffic to my other sites.

Northstar - What caveman said... but I'd add that if your own list is the main source of traffic to all your sites, you probably have a problem.

If all of your eggs are in this one basket, your sites are inevitably going to be seen by Google as being related more to each other than to the rest of the web. You've got to get inbound links from independent sources to each of your sites... to broaden your traffic sources, and to suggest to the search engines that your sites have value that's independent of your own votes.

I have a tons of inbound traffic from other sites (reciprocal links, yahoo, msn, altavista). Only about 30 out of 8000 hits per day come from my own sites.

I got hit badly on June 27. Linking to my own sites is the only thing I could think of that may have contributed to the drop in traffic from Google. Maybe I'm on the wrong track but it's the only lead I have.

Would removing the reciprocal links I have on my pages back to my link list but leaving the links on my link list fix a possible crosslinking issue? Another words is linking to your own sites without a return link on the other pages still considered crosslinking?

I guess in absolute thinking it is crosslinking but rarely Googlebot will consider it as a spam/crosslinking if a number of own links given is true

Well, on the face of it, it doesn't sound like your links to your own sites are a problem, but I can envision situations where this might be a problem.

If as discussed your links to your own sites are fair minded and balanced, and your sites are of equal quality to other sites you're linking to, it seems fair to me.

But for example, if all of your other sites being linked to (or a substantial number of them) are on the same topic, then that is a pretty obvious footprint you've created in linking to all of those similar sites, and in a case like that, you could get many of the linked to sites burned. That's just one example.