Hi, Well I'm almost finished my first website, and I was quite excited to exchange links with similar sites, submit it to directories, become all rich etc. However, just then, after searching for "bad neighborhoods" (wouldn't want to link to one of them! whatever they are...) I found this: http://www.netconcepts.com/link-exchanges-bad-neighbourhoods/ ARGH! Link exchanges should be avoided?? I have never heard of this! Is this true? Also, I'd like to know a bit about "bad neighborhoods", what exactly are they? Anything else I should know about nasty things that can harm my search engine placement when the site gets launched really soon? I'd really appreciate any help, even if your post start with "OMG!!1 rolf n00b, u sux0rz" or "this has already been posted 5 times!". Grand.
Try to get as many one way links to your site and internal pages as you can. Submit to directories and/or purchase links. Reciprocal links (two-way links) are ok too. Just don't over do them. Avoid the "links page" with a hundred links to sites that are also linking to you. Use recips to exchange links with the top 10, or so, quality sites in your niche. If your site is kick-ass (unique with good content) you will pick up links naturally. Someone who comes across your site and thinks its cool may blog about you, or something like that. Bad sites would be sites that over do the recip linking thingy and get their links from spamming blog comments and such. They may participate in link farms and other forms of mass linking. Thats my interpretation of so called "bad neighborhoods". Never really came across a concise definition of this buzz word.
can anyone tell me some good sites where i can put my site to get some link back? thank you in advance
There are bunch of directories offering Free links in DP's Directory section. You will find free oneway links from there.
Hi, Link Exchange ("Reciprocal Link Exchange") is the practice of exchanging links with other websites. There are many different ways to arrange a link exchange with webmasters. The simplest way of doing it is to email another website owner and ask to do a link exchange. Also visiting webmaster discussion boards which offer a dedicated link exchange forum where webmasters can request a link exchange be it of a certain category or open to anybody. Link exchange between non related sites might affect the ranking of websites in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). Link Exchange between websites in the same industry can help them and if the website owner does not want to link to direct competitors it is adviseable to exchange links with sites that complement the content of their website.
No, they are good. Why should they be bad. If you don't link banned sites totally, link exchanges are quite good.
Absolutely! Relevance is everything. Always keep your site visitor in mind and exchange with same-themed sites only...regardless of PR btw.
Link exchange is good it'll actually help your sites' position. But be sure to exchange links with quality sites and with related sites ofcourse.
Only link to sites you think your visitors will be interested in. Any link-exchange that violates that simple rule, is a bad idea.
Link exchanges are not bad. But do not link exchange if: - site banned by SEs. - site not related to your site. - site that may put a robots.txt "nofollow" command to your link
well it depends. if you link to a good site and related to yours then link exchange is very helpful but vice versa, if you link to sites which are banned or not related to yours, it might hurt your site. just choose the right site to link exchange with.