Yes, too many reciprocal links can have a negative impact on where your site ranks in the search results. Here is a link from the official google webmaster guidelines. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356
Surprisingly I had some pages with 100 reciprocal links and all of them gained PageRank. I deleted them as I am going to inbound links only. I still keep a few but only certain ones. Buy the way, allot of them had nothing to do with my keywords or categories. Its kind of hit or miss.
The best idea is to get reciprocal links from related websites. But google itself says that excessive link exchange can harm the ranking
The problem is, the google webmaster guidelines does not define what "excessive" is. Is excessive considered 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, or 1,000,000 reciprocal links? So the guidelines are kinda open to whatever the people at google wants them to mean. Because there is no clear definition as to how many reciprocal links to takes to be considered excessive, I stay away from them all together.
Ok got ya, I was going to start a page with a bunch of those guys on LinkShare, in hopes that having backlinks from high PR sites would benefit me, but I wont risk it, and i can see how it would look very unprofessional as well. Thank you for clearing that up, but it still confuses me how it works for some people.
Think of it more along the lines of percentages. Obviously a massive website is going to have more links. WHere you might be penalized for having 100 reciprocal links, because they make up 90% of you inbound links, another site that has 10,000 inbound links could have one or two thousands recips and not worry. Natural link occurs in variety of ways. Keep that in mind. Do a little directory, a little reciprocal, and little article marketing, and then right great content.
simply stay away from systematic methodology unless you really know your stuff and have an exact, tested plan. Google wont penalize you for "normal" looking things. they realize that all sorts of sights (even bad ones) will link to you and sometimes be reciprocated. if google can tell your links are a part of a systematic link exchange you might get a bit of a downer
Got you. I did some reading today, i noticed that basically you dont want to be apart of those link exchagce type sites, but instead if you do something like that maybe you wanna talk to the owner privately if you have to pay for a reciprocal link, and that way it will look natural and will just be between you and the owner. I wont do what i planned anymore which was a page with like 50 recip links LMAO.
YES !They would bring about a negative effect instead of a boost.BUT do not completely neglect them.After they are links so get relevant link exchanges.But if you are not concerned about SERP and want to use your blog for text link ads then you can get link exchanges and raise the PR.It is all your option.
yes many reciprocal links can hurt your website, it shows you build links with people you know... 3 way links could help though
Don't make mistake to create too many reciprocal links one way or three way linking is better not only for your website page rank also for your positions. Don't make mistake to create too many reciprocal links one way or three way linking is better not only for your website page rank also for your positions.
Try building one way, or if you must, 3 way links rather than reciprocal links. Use methods like dofollow blog commenting, and social bookmarking.
As you will learn reciprocal links will quickly trash the appearance of your site. You really need one way links.
FUD. The above quote from Google emphasizes all the wrong points. On topic relevant links will not hurt your site. On the other hand, links pages probably will not help your site.