Some Doubts about seo pleae help me...

Am doing reciprocal link exchange in order to get more back links for my site..But in a forum I read it that reciprocal link exchange is Black hat seo..Is it harmful for ma site..?

 

It is not harmful, but it is not useful also. Google does not give any value to reciprocal or paid links. Even 3rd party linking has less value. It is, therefore, recommended to get only free links, either through the websites or directories.

 

Oh thanks dude..then can u explain what is link addition in sites..?does it have benefits or not..?is it is same as the reciprocal link exchange..?

 

Leave reciprocal link exchange, now all search engine hates it. Its better to create links through article submission, forum posting and blog comments. if you want to do link exchange then do 3 way.

 

Link addition in websites is making request to the webmasters to add your link on their website. You don't add their link in return. Instead you may provide some article relevant to their website or just give some useful information like if their is any broken link on their site(which is always a possibility).

 

Reciprocal links will have no benefit to an SEO campaign as it is easy for search engines to pick these up. Reciprocal linking used to be a valid method of link building in the early days of SEO, but the search engines have become far clever, Concentrate on sourcing one way links into to your and look to varying the anchor text implemented and the destinations of each of the links.

 

thanks everybody..

 

Its not a big problem, But google will not prefer to show the result for relevant search in SERP's who's site has more outbound links. The out bound links should be less, and the other thing you are providing a back link to whom u prefer to take reciprocal link. And the main thing is that the traffic from your site may jump to the link which u had provided as reciprocal. And the summary is better to have a less outbound links. And if u r intended to have back links prefer to hae a quality link from high page rank sites

 

Do not use reciprocal links because it is not liked by the search engines and it is treated as a spamming to improve ranking of your website.So, You can build links by using forum with signatures in related sites that will be more helpful.

 

No it's not a black hat seo. But google will not give much preference to your link.

 

well reciprocal linking is a type of back linking. but priority is given to one way links because the site having more incoming links then outbound links are better ranked over SERP

 

too much of reciprocal linking is not good. try to get one way links from reputed sites.

 

I suggest you avoid link exchange and build backlinks more naturally. Search engines view link exchanges negatively and continuing this practice will not help your site at all. It is still best to get backlinks from blogs, forums or sites that are related to your website's content/niche because search engines look at this aspect too.

 

Its not BlackHat Seo & secondly its not harmful for any site
If you are doing link exchange for the sake of getting boost in SERPS then don't go with reciprocal
reciprocal is ages old method webmasters tend to use but, its no longer worth to try it nowadays
You can either go for a 3 way link exchange or try your luck with article submission or blog commenting for the same

 

Google's algorithm is really hard to deal with, well link exchange is not that valuable now a days unless if the site where the link is posted is an authority site .org, .gov and .edu sites are some of these authority sites that might be a good target for link exchange. Link exchange os not a black hat seo technique well to what I had read on several seo articles way back then link exchange is considered to be a white hat seo technique but since Google had change it's algorithm link exchange had lose its value of effectiveness.

 

Reciprocal link exchange is not a black hat SEO technique. But do not overdo this. It should be in a limit. You can create links from other SEO sources as well.

 

thank u all..

 

Yes, I agree with you diyakapoor "Reciprocal link exchange is not a black hat SEO technique" but its effect is very low, so you would make free backlings through Directory submission, article submission, social bookmarking, 3 way link building..etc

 

It also depends on the source from where you are getting a link from. If you are receiving the reciprocal link offer from good relevant sites, you can go for it. But don't spend more efforts on reciprocal linking.

 

I agree with everyone that Reciprocal link building is not black hat but less effective when compared to one-way link building.