is building a links directory on my domain a waste of my time?

newb2seo · 07-27-2009, 03:14 PM

Hi.
I have read some places that people are saying now that building a links directory on my site is not as important as it used to be.
I've seen software that does this for me... where you tell the person you've added them to your links page and ask them to give you a link back.

Is that still a good way to do link building?

Any help is appreciated for this newb.

keyword-research.info · 07-27-2009, 09:17 PM

Unfortunately this is an outdated link building technique that is much tougher to benefit from these days. 6+ years ago everyone was exchanging links like there was no tomorrow. These days it is just too tough to find a decent site who can provide a beneficial link. You can still find some decent link partners, but it may be better to put those links on content pages. Telling the search engines that you exchange links is basically telling them to watch out for you because you might be spammy.

geolt7 · 07-28-2009, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by keyword-research.info

Unfortunately this is an outdated link building technique that is much tougher to benefit from these days. 6+ years ago everyone was exchanging links like there was no tomorrow. These days it is just too tough to find a decent site who can provide a beneficial link. You can still find some decent link partners, but it may be better to put those links on content pages. Telling the search engines that you exchange links is basically telling them to watch out for you because you might be spammy.

I agree. I think you will be better building links using other methods like social bookmarking and comment posting.

benz · 07-28-2009, 04:09 AM

The thing is that there's no decent way of getting good backlinks. Google knows that links in forums, social bookmarking sites and blog comments are user generated. They know that those also have the potential to be spammy and I've seen some really spammy social bookmarking sites! So what now? Write good content and hope someone appreciates it and gives you a link? Or do what you can, including link excahnge?

dave147 · 07-28-2009, 04:17 AM

I wouldn't waste time on that. Just build a small links page with only very relevant backlinks on it

Glenn Leader · 07-28-2009, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by dave147

I wouldn't waste time on that. Just build a small links page with only very relevant backlinks on it

Absolutely, building a directory of themed links, that
are relevant to your site is the best way to go.

HTH

Glenn

FifthDimension5 · 07-28-2009, 06:38 AM

I guess it would be better to hide the links as part of content, but the links might be actually be obtained through exchange.

rlrlphs · 07-28-2009, 06:40 AM

Yes, it would be a waste of time to you if you are not too fast in making a back links if you want to gain more back links then hire professionals.

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