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CommentThursday, August 16, 2007

Reciprocal Links: What's Excessive Anyway?

9 Comments

Reciprocal link not much help

I do not believe again with link exchange or reciprocal link, today i believe natural link from good resource combine with high traffic for our website will help our positioning at Google, That's what i believe right now

Anyway thank you for your share

Bali Wedding

 

Webdesign company signatures - can they harm you

How about the credits links to the webdesign company at the bottom of the sites... are they considered reciprocal?

Usually they span for the entire site... getting dozens or undreds of new links to the webdesign company site.

Is this a bad strategy for any webdesign studio?
Should they use nofollow?

neonex
www.kazulo.com

Situation is still muddy

This area is so cloudy at the moment that I'm becoming annoyed. Say I run 5 websites, all of similar themes.

Is having reciprocal link rings in such a scenario GOOD or BAD? It seems to me such a simple question, and the only thing I've gotten out of the above posts is the 100 +/- comment, which I'm skeptical about, given google's complex algorithm - seems too easy. lol

http://www.europepua.com/

Thank you, your says is very

Thank you, your says is very important for me.

Excessive

Google says keep links below 100 so excessive might well be +100 also if all links is reciprocal again this might be excessive but linking for 100 GREAT sites with lots of unique content mixed with lets say 10 reciprocal links I don't think this is any problem.

I found after removed some links that was reciprocal. I would found my sites #1 in google in very competitive market!!

So less reciprocal links might not be a bad thing afterall.

good info for newbie

i'm newbie on seo, what i did before, only find and find reciprocal link for my web, thx for your article jason

Rm
http://www.balicare.org

Reciprocal Links Agreement

I totally agree with Jason's article. So many "wanna-be" Web designers that claim to be Web Masters will go on and on about the quantity of links per page or the page rank of a link being accepted or rejected. Since Google isn't giving a "guide-line" or "Reciprocal Info Book" on the matter it seems that reciprocal linking comes down to common sense.

Jason put is clearly into perspective when he quoted Bob Masa

"Approach each reciprocal link deal with a single thought. Will this link exchange bring me enough paying customers that I can justify recommending to my visitors to go to his site instead of staying at mine?"

Well done Jason!

Richard Lavender
Director
DOWN UNDER on-line
www.downunderonline.com

Reciprocal Links

Well, all I can say people is getting bigger with these techinques. I know many sites, who're indulge in these kind of activites and have got more than 1000 links in no time.

I was also aksed to participate, but I opted out, as I liked to get geniune links and till date, I couldn't manage much.

In other words, it's really beneficial.

DG...
http://www.ditii.com

"Excessive Link Exchange"

We've been preaching to our own users for the past seven years to make link exchange decisions based on what benefits the end user and not for search engines.

The trouble with link exchange is full duplex link exchange softwares and services that force linking without any editorial discretion taking place. Such services are easy to spot.. they guarantee links and they make offers such as "$50 for 500 links overnight!". Avoid these softwares and services like they are the plague.

If you use a software to manage link exchange, make sure it is EDITOR BASED. That is key in insuring your actions won't get you into trouble with search engines. You don't want some software or service forcing you to link in a manner that affects volume or causes you to be linked to sites irrelevant to yours. Maintain editorial discretion, always.

The second key is to watch volume. That means don't excessively link exchange with just any site.. keep your criteria focused on what benefits your own site and your own end user's experience.

Ask yourself.. does this site I am about to link with benefit my end user's experience? If you aren't sure, don't do it. If you are sure, GET THE LINK regardless of pagerank or other metrics.

Link exchange has been a very useful method for branding websites (especially for small business) since the dawn of the WWW. Google is rightfully doing what it can to quell the flow of webmasters who resort to full duplex linking schemes. Avoid full duplex and maintain editorial discretion on making links. Keep volume low/natural and you will enjoy long term success.

Finally.. remember, you are who you link to! So don't worry if junk sites link to yours.. maintain control over your own links on your own site.

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