We are all aware that December 2007 spelt the message that paid links will get you penalized for buying or selling. I have come accross a site that has sailed past me in the serps..... and guess what , they are all reciprocal links. This I believed had died a death several years ago. Perphaps this is now theonly way to proove that you have not bought them? Anyway I am going to give recips a try again. It worked for them.....
I've been doing recip linking for 2 years now and getting good traffic and making money from adsense. Prolly not as good as some, but it's a lot easier doing recip linking that tyring to look for oneway links. Oneway links can be too time consuming, I have a 2nd job so there's no way in hell I can screw around with learning how to find one way links. I stick to the old fashion way. Don't listen to everything you read on the internet man. Recip linking is not dead and it still brings a decent amount of traffic. You have to remember Google isn't the only search engine out there! There's other search engines that still value recip linking. Some of the seo pros say one way linking is the best and only way you should do it. But they need to understand some people have a life and other hobbies. I'm not going to sit at a computer all day trying to look for one way links, sorry I'm not.
Try to follow trends of adult webmasters. They have a huge market and they know how to play the game. They've been doing recip linking for years and they still do.
I am begging to think there is real value in super related sites one again. The site that sailed past me had mostly unrealted links
Reciprocal links are still working for me... You can get EASY one-way links from my site (see sig) no reciprocal required
Quality (QUALITY) one way links are hard to get - and in my opinion a PR5 reciprocal link (when your site has just started or is PR<3) is better than quite a substantial number of directory submissions and other crappy unrelated sites (blog comments, etc.). I've always used reciprocal links (for my celebrity sites, where most pople use blogs etc. and you can get an easy "blogrol" link back).
I'm not sure it was ever dead, just devalued. One way links are best but difficult to get. A reciprocal link, non-related link, free directory submission are all better than no link.
If the link doesn't come from a page that already has 500 links and no other content, it's probably worth getting. Those spammy links are probably the "dead" links.
Problem is muppets link to you and then drop your link a week later. Are you the one with the motorbike website? Valantino whatever?
I think the one exception that a link is better than no link is if its a spammy link or link farm link. People say there is no proof they cause rank problems with your site, but I wouldn't go out looking for them or purposely add them
Recips are just more stable. I have a suspiction that G is now looking at the link profile now, thus if you have no recips I BET that is a negative. Now that is a thought....
Yeah that's true. You pay for a yearly link and it lasts a week... they don't care because they have your money! (no motorbike sites here, must be another member)
I believe that every link is good link. Reciprocal link from PR5 or higher is more valuable then one way link from PR2 for example. Important thing is content of the sites, of course. If sites are in different niches one way link don't has any value.
Exchanges with quality related sites are still fine IMO. New sites with only one way links are quite suspicious.
I don't think it's completely dead, I just stopped focusing on it and started focusing on link bait and one-way links. That's where it's at. You can even have links at social networking sites if you're not spammy and acting like a marketer. Sheree