Is reciprocal link exchange bad ?

I just want to know whether doing reciprocal link exchanges will make your blog banned from google or is it just that it will not be of so much importance to google SERP ?

 

if you are doing lots of reciprocal linking between the sites you own your rankings may go down. moreover, reciprocal links are of not much importance now. but if they are done from websites with similar or related themes or topics then it can help.

 

Yes, i agree with shailendra.

Dont exchange your link to any sites only for seo, it should give some user traffic also then google will not banned your site.

 

I don't think you'll be banned but your page can loose some weight in Google
So the less reciprocal links the better

 

make Link Out on Ur Front page is more less than Links In..

here tips :

Put on the sub-page link..

 

In theory, any link pointing your site is a positive vote for your site, that means the site that contains your link appreciates your site and invites people to visit it to learn something new. But to be considered by Google the inbound links must be created in natural way: I like your site and I appreciate it, then I post a link to it.

Reciprocal links are not natural. Reciprocal linking supposes a previous agreement: I send a link to your site if you send a link to mine. This is the reason for, if reciprocal linking is detected, Google ignores or does not count it very much. If both sites engaged in reciprocal linking have similar or related themes, then Google counts those links, but at minimum level.

There are to problems to be detailed here.

1. If reciprocal linking do not help your PR very much, if the partner site has a good traffic, you may hope to receive a bit of its traffic.

2. If your partner site is banned or penalised by Google, you're in danger to be banned or penalised too. This kind of sites are named 'bad neighbors' and should be excepted from reciprocal linking.

 

google don't like link exchange.

 

I wouldn't necessarily call them bad as I would call it of not much value.

Try to do the reciprocal link swap within context of articles

 

I don't think looking for link exchanges would be worth the time.

I see it as a way for your visitors to leave your site.

 

I don't think that reciprocal links is very healthy to your site too. There are few reasons for my opinion: site with lots of links doesn't looks very nice for users; links from your site could be bad for your page rank; there are lot's of ways to get one way links.

If you want to add reciprocal links from web directories - it is really worthless, if you want to exchange links with another sites, better try ABC linking or something like that.

 

reciprocal links are not bad if you use them correctly as everyone has stated, if I have a bodybuilding site and can get a link to it from bodybuilding.com and I put a link up for them, this is good. they are a trusted site with high page rankings. If I have the same bodybuilding site and trade links with howtoscampeople.com this would probally hurt me.
Use links to places that match your content.
If your going to go through the trouble of getting links then why not just go for the one way link, this is best and you do not have to rely on having a site match your product. If you want a high pr fast.

Buy some one way links from pr4 sites and above, the higher pr the better, you only need the links for a month and your purpose will be served. Please watch out for the people who sell you a pr6 site link but put you on a pr0 or 1 page. You can get a pr 8 or above within a month for a 100 bucks if you shop around, I use ebay alot for link buys and dp as well as bhw.

Now why do you only need it for a month, if you have taken the time to seo your site and make the content seo friendly then your site will take over once it is up there. If you have a poor site that is not enriched with seo then you might as well keep buying links or ppc to get vists.

 

5 max - that is all the link exchanges i would have, i only have 3 and i have no problem with google.

 

And I don't think google will ban a blog or website for having at least 4 or 5 reciprocal links.

 

A SEO book I read a while ago said that Google can detect these ABC arrangements - and even ABCD.

 

Well on my opinion , Reciprocal Link building either ABC or AB it really worked for me for newbie site. Later on Oneway links is the best to rais your SERPs

 

Do it carefully, promote it through blogs, and reciprocal link should be small in number

 

You can make with in short time more back links it is effect your rankings.

 

Quite the opposite actually. If the sites are related it will be beneficial.

 

Reciprocal link exchange is bad only when they're no related. Try to make related link exchange.

 

Link exchanges with a pile of sites that you own will get you banned, but normal link exchanges wont. Just be careful, and don't make it your primary strategy.