Link Exchanges and Reciprocal Links --> Bad?

13 years ago

Link exchange? NO WAY !!! Days of link exchange strategy had been over a long ago.

Google guidelines on link schemes may help to clarify: http://support.google.com/webmasters...n&answer=66356

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beasty513

13 years ago

If you care about your website and its ranking

you wouldn't do it.

Also, most of the FFA sites are pretty much just

filled spammy links.

You're literally telling Google, any other major search engine, or directory

that you don't care about quality if you get involved.

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hostdare

13 years ago

Now there is no value of reciprocal links.But yes if you are getting high PR quality link relevant to your site then you can take that link.Otherwise recently more emphasis is on social networking sites like Facebook,Google+,stumble upon,hubpages etc....

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patco

13 years ago

According to me, do not do link exchange ... or at least use 3 or 4 way link exchange:

A -> B
B -> C
D -> A (the owner of C and D is the same!)

but do NOT link C and A!

I hope you got the idea!

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deepakrawat2789

13 years ago

Originally Posted by patco

According to me, do not do link exchange ... or at least use 3 or 4 way link exchange:

A -> B
B -> C
D -> A (the owner of C and D is the same!)

but do NOT link C and A!

I hope you got the idea!

Agree with you Patco, now its the best way to get link by 3-4 way link exchange....

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Kevin Maguire

13 years ago

Originally Posted by patco

According to me, do not do link exchange ... or at least use 3 or 4 way link exchange:

A -> B
B -> C
D -> A (the owner of C and D is the same!)

but do NOT link C and A!

I hope you got the idea!

What he said....

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DizenSounds

13 years ago

direct link exchanges haven't been effective for years. I mean years. I remember helping clients over 5 years ago that couldn't rank at all, take a look at their backlinks and they are all reciprocal links.

After going through and cleaning up the links at that time, before link removal was even an idea, we could finally help get those clients ranking again.

The only way to do link exchanges is to do something along the lines of what patco said. But even then that's not very effective as the link exchanges are always very easy to track. Most are on obscure internal pages with URLs that say linkexchange.php, links.php, /links/...

I would advise against this type of linkbuilding.

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Mike Anthony

13 years ago

Originally Posted by DizenSounds

. But even then that's not very effective as the link exchanges are always very easy to track. Most are on obscure internal pages with URLs that say linkexchange.php, links.php, /links/...

Thats not how three way link exchanges are done. You are confusing two way with three way. Three way link exchanges are not easy to track. When done right they are undetectable because they are exactly like common natural link patterns.

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paulgl

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Thats not how three way link exchanges are done. You are confusing two way with three way. Three way link exchanges are not easy to track. When done right they are undetectable because they are exactly like common natural link patterns.

I call my 3 way linking, "link washing."

Any directory asking for a linkback is low level to begin with. Low
level does not mean hurting. It's just pretty useless to do.

Paul

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Mike Anthony

13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

I call my 3 way linking, "link washing."

Any directory asking for a linkback is low level to begin with. Low
level does not mean hurting. It's just pretty useless to do.

Paul

Three way link exchanges have nothing to do with directories. You would have to be dealing with a three way link exchange partner that has two directory sites.

Sigh....

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Moneymaker2012

13 years ago

Link exchange used to be very effective and easy to get links but now it's not a good for your site, it can be caught easily and not good for your site.

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bermuda

13 years ago

Exchanging links with a few high-quality websites can be still effective and useful but do not even think about exchanging links with directories. Some of such online link resources are actually link farms with bad reputation and as soon as you link out to them, your rankings may suffer a quick drop. If you get some one-way links from directories, that is quite acceptable but do not use reciprocal links involving some poor directories.

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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

When you have sites with real content you tend to not care what anyone else thinks about reciprocal links.

Example, hxxp://animal.discovery.com (screenshot below).

OP, the problem isn't reciprocal links, the problem is those free for all links are junk.

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