I would prefer social bookmarking over exchange links.
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I would prefer social bookmarking over exchange links.
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Beg to differ with all of you.
Exchanging links is a valid way to get backlinks and page rank juice.
The problem I think is that you all are looking at it as who wants to be on an inner page full of other links.
And those are lousy ways to exchange links!
A good exchange is equal, front page to front page.
And search engines, google onwards, don't know you exchanged links with another site.
I prefer deep links in content to homepage links -- they appear more natural.Quote:
Originally Posted by iowadawg
The only links which really annoy me are from links pages. Useless!
Link exchange or reciprocal links not be helpful in site results and apart from that it be harmful for the site. If you get links from irrelevant site to yours and that is with the low quality content then it be harmful for your site. But if you be stick strictly in exchanging links with the relevant and high authorised sites then it be helpful to you but that is little and not in more amount. But still google has suggested to avoid make use of reciprocal links for your site so it is advisable not to make use of this method.
Don't go for link exchange since most of the sites are not worth and it may affect your site ranking factor too. Try to get natural link which will helps you in a longer run.
Latest Panda/Penguin gave penalties to the sites which had done excess link exchanges. It is not natural way of link building. Google recommends natural way of link building, as a result, it does not recommend link exchanges and starts to give penalty to that even. So it is better not to go for it. However, if you can go for about very less, like 5-10, that may not harm much, Go for better sites which have good authority from Google (check their PR), with good traffic (helps to get referral traffic). However, go for other link building methods along side your link exchanges like contextual link building (blogging, press releases and etc) too.
I'm sure that links from links pages are of benefit (such as directory pages). But where you are required to link back, you do so from another URL on an equally deep inner page so that it is not a direct 1:1 link exchange.
The PR juice is obviously much reduced (diluted) from link pages though as compared with in-sentence, in-article reference links.
One, never do link exchanges based on page rank.
Two, do link exchanges only with blogs/sites that are in your niche or closely aligned to your niche.
LOL, I don't agree. Page Rank is a good indicator that the site is an authority site, unless the PR was faked. If you can get a Page-Ranked site linking to your site then it will be more beneficial than a link from the unloved PR0 site for obvious reasons such as visitor traffic and ahem, PR juice flow. And is G so clever to be sure that a site is in your niche? If I am on a blog about lip gloss, I might link to my relevant blog about a color-picker tool. How would an algorithm work out that it was a relevant link or otherwise?Quote:
One, never do link exchanges based on page rank.
Two, do link exchanges only with blogs/sites that are in your niche or closely aligned to your niche.
I personally don't pay any attention to PR. Still, I thought extremely relevant link exchange was a way around low PR. I've had content-based PR0 sites with no incoming links rank well in the past. Would you deny a link to you from a site like that just because the PR is 0? On the other hand, that was so far in the past it was before a few changes to the algorithms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy101