Reciprocal links still have value, given that the links are coming from natural pages with quality content. I noticed a good improment in my rankings after procuring few quality reciporcal links last month. Paul. ------------------ IT consulting Company Epublishing Service provider Website marketing Services Mini Makeup Courses
The bigdabby infrastructure update made it possible for Google to identify reciprocal links. Avoid having general link exchange directories on your site.
So, what you're saying is don't have a links page, just put the links within the content? Well, how many other people are you going to find who will do the same with your link? Not many I bet. Sheree
give it more of your time and it will stay.... i was buying links in large numbers and less than 1% were removing but after few mails links were up and staying. find the sites that interested in long term links and you'll be fine
its never a good thing to have only one type of link. spread your links among all possible linking strategies and it will look natural. but if you only have recips its not hard to see what that means.
So, this site that has just salied past me whom has an old fashinoed link bit at the footer and is gaining a link a day? Are they heading for an iceberg?
Although reciprocal links may (?) get a site some PR juice, there are two other reasons not mentioned that also count. Pushing the Keyword Anchor Text Unique Page Content Creation Within the reciprocal link, you should place your Keyword Phrase with the link back to your site. This does help very much. And then start changing the Keyword Phrase every ~ month. One point that is always missed in this discussion is the page you put their link on, is a new page to your site. This alone adds page rank to your site. If you keep the links to ~20 links per page and add a ~150 word “description†with it, you will create a Google recommended “topic specificâ€, unique content page to your site. This follows the Google webmaster guidelines to the letter. The real question is does the page rank come from the new page or the inbound links?
Are u saying that making a new page with an outbound to a very related good quality site adds PR to that new page? Why?
I still have several reciprocal deep links from few years (from content to content pages of diff. sites) and they even bring some traffic. However, I'll avoid making any new reciprocals - don't believe they have nearly the same value as 1-way links, but they still bring some traffic from highly relevant sites so I'll keep the old ones. As for the removed 1-way links - my experience is only one expired domain...didn't contact the guy, who is/or was from DP actually...but not important. Articles also work very good for me! Cheers to all nice people across DP!
Links/resource pages are fine. Don't put up a general reciprocal links directory like everyone was doing before bigdabddy. Links within the content are great. As long as you have a balanced link profile trading links is fine. Try to keep reciprocal links under 20% of your inbound links.
I have a van sales website that I am hoping will be quite significant. My intention was to add a subdirectory and install eSyndicate on it. The link partners would be only useful resources from the UK, that are doing exactly the same thing. The idea not being to link to automtive sites around the world, but if somone was offering a useful service in the UK like plylining or engine modifications, surly G would not penalize that?
A resource page or small relevant directory is fine Quality links are more important to improve traffic and search rankings Selective directory is great for your users and a great way to get some webmasters from good sites to link back to you Automated programs have a high risk of being viewed as spam What is a balanced Link Profile and Link Quality Factors Balanced Link Profile 1) Quality Links 2) Links from many different domains 3) Deep linking to your internal pages 4) Varied Anchor text including non-keyword anchor texts Link Qualilty Factors Aged Links Authority Links Contextual Links Deep Links Links that generate traffic One Way Links Related Links
Big daddy killed reciprocal linking to #1 However, any link that could bring some traffic is still useful. I made $8000 from one hit from a recipocal link last year. So, I'm not about to get rid of my recipocals. Remember that not all traffic comes from search engines. Use the reciprocal links wisely and don't over do it.