Links make Google happy

That's what I've read, anyway. The help on Google's site confirms this. The more incoming links you have from "quality" sites (ie with good content), the higher will be your site's rank.
Now if that's not an invitation to subscribe to link farms, I don't know what is. But wait! Google penalise you if your links come purely from link farms. They're not stupid - they know all the tricks.
But what if I was to create say, 20 different sites, all on different domains, and they all linked to each other? As long as my sites contained some decent content, shouldn't Google take note of this and promote all of my sites?
I think so.

Now what if it was 50 sites? or 100 sites? Surely that should create a nice network of sites that all help to pull each other up the ranks. It would be like having my own link farm, but I would have total control over the quality of the sites that linked in. And rather than simply making a list of links, I could spread the links throughout the sites at relevant places.

Now how about getting other people to link to my sites? Well I have a cunning plan for that, too. It's all about incentives. I'm working on a range of software packages to create and manage content sites (which I'll be using to create my own sites of course).

My plan is to sell these packages to other Internet Marketers. So what if I offered this deal to my customers?
I create a list containing "These sites were created using Content Site Builder" and add links to my customers' generated sites. In return, they put a link to my site on their site saying "Created with Content Site Builder".

My software already contains an option to add this link to the generated sites, so it's no big deal for them. In return, they get an external link coming in which will help their rank.

And the higher their sites rank, the higher mine will rank. And the higher mine goes, the more people see it, buy the softwre and link in.
It's an obvious solution.

Now all I need to do is get that software finished and out on the market...