Over the past few years I have seen various posts on the subject of link exchanges. My rank has fluctuated up and down as would seem normal flux. however I decided to do a test about 6 months ago and started exchanging links again using linkmarket. The results are stunning to say the least. I fully believe that the new campaign G has launched against link exchanges is in fact real. I have noticed that when searching the BL's that google lists for the site is mostly the links pages that linkmarket has created using the PHP service they offer. It has completely effected my rankings in a very negative way. This site is the only site I made any changes on and believe me that my belief is the drop is 100% A result of doing link exchanges through Link Market. I know there is alot of controversy around this subject but I have to say the reults seem to favor G's stance on link exchanges as being true. Has anyone else experienced the same?
Doing link exchange with unrelated sites always been considered as not good. Link exchange also leaks the PR juice. I used to have link exchange on one of my sites 8 months ago. I had PR 3 in two and half months plus some visitors. As I learned, I took it off. My PR still same, but traffic dropped.
Actually, google was against in link buying. And I think that you're one of those webmaster that have detected by google to have paid links in your site.
No sense !!! if a site have more back links, it is popular, right ? if a site have to much back links, it is a site that buying links, right ? so where is the sense now ? who buy or who not buy links ? confuse !!!!
I see.. If I'm not mistaken, there are set of people who are gonna make a petition to google. If you think you have the reason to complain try to submit a petition there. I think the petition was in google webmaster tool.
Welcome to 2005. A few on topic link exchanges here and there are ok. Any more and you might raise a flag. A free for all exchange with unrelated sites is asking for trouble
Your using an actually Link Exchange service and you expect correct results? Those are services Google tells you not to use. Your link exchanges should only be from sites with related content. You also need to use your keyword\key phrase for your SERPs as the anchor text. Link Exchanges can be useless without the correct usage
That would definitely confirm what Google has been saying for some time now. If they can detect the [recip] links to rank you with, there's no reason to think they can't detect those links to discount. And considering that the quality of their search engine is their claim to fame, supporting their ad business, it really shouldn't come as a surprise.
I think exchanging links will not hurt your site as long as it is related. Exchanging links with related site strengthen the relevancy and quality of site backlinks.
I'm not sure any more what Google deems acceptable This if from their Webmaster Guideline: Examples of link schemes can include: * Links intended to manipulate PageRank * Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web * Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.") * Buying or selling links that pass PageRank Looks to me like they are saying a "Links Page" is a no no. Also, what is "excessive reciprocal links"....10,100, 10000...where is the cut off line?
I seem to have the same problem, i maybe 8 months a go bought one link cos it seemed a good idea at the time, since then none, just and recips exchanges all relative, and my site went from 4 to 0 wtf?
The only people who can answer that are under a contractual agreement banning them from talking about it. Anything you read in here is a guess. That said, my guess is that it's probably not a specific number, but a percent of your IBLs. If you only have ten links, ten is probably excessive. If you have 10,000, then 10 would likely go unnoticed.
It is likely an algorithm much more complicated than percentage, and may include relevance, time difference between the two links created, total number vs. ratio, and who knows what else. G has a bunch of engineers and scientists and statisticians working on these stuff everyday for a living, you bet they will figure out something.