3 way link exchanges

Here is a situation that keeps happening to me.
I have sites approach me for a link exchange. I check their site's content, look at the pagerank for the home page and the links page and make my decision.
Then when I add their link, they email me back, thanking me and showing me the site they added my link to. It ends up being a PR0 links page, or better yet, some friggen directory that I was probably already in to begin with.

I would immediately remove my their link and email them telling them. Not anymore. I learned the hard way to wait for them to link to me first if the want a link exchange.

I would rather stick to regular link exchanges, makes it much easier for me to track my links.

 

Thats why i hate 3-ways. There is always one party thats gets more than the other and normally it's the person with 2 sites. The main site gets all of the incoming links and then they link back from some bs site that has no value. To much work for me.

 

One way of course is best way to gain SERP. Google can't track any urls because it's not possible. But gaining 200 or more links within 1 month may be harmful to a site because it'll look like sponsor page advertising or text link advertising.

 

A "SERP" is a page of search results. How do you "gain" a page of search results?

I think you might be surprised what Google can track.

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002818.html

http://www.search-marketing.info/newsletter/articles/matt-cutts.htm

 

n00b question:
Won't be better if aaa.mysite.com link to yoursite.com &
xxx.yoursite.com link to mysite.com, in terms of avoiding recip penaulty? (if any)

 

What "recip penaulty"?

 

hehe..sorry for typo.
reciprocal penalty

 

Sorry. I wasn't commenting on the spelling. I was commenting on the concept. What evidence do you see that a "reciprocal penalty" exists?

 

I too not sure if it exist and haven't seen for myself, but heard a lot about it lately.
Assuming google may put a curb on reciprocal links, if it is from different subdomains - since SEs treat sub as different domains - then they may not fall under the reciprocal category?

 

IF Google wished to penalize or devalue reciprocal links per se, I don't think subdomains would protect you. I don't think reciprocal linking is an issue, though.

 

Rather than doing 3-way link exchanges, wouldn't it be a good idea to have your own network of sites ? This way you can have better control.

 

I find in my case, over time I did build my own little network of sites but one has to be careful in the interpretation here... The network isn't really mine, only my site belongs to me, it just happens the links were hand-built, over time a bunch of people and myself have linked to each other on our own accord. But yeah, it wasn't left up to some link management device or what have you, it was one link at a time, carefully reviewed sites, and so on.

I run into some of these so-called networks, some are as few as 3-4 or 5 sites, others are as large as 100 or whatever, but it's what I call an artificial network... Meaning it's all just inter-linked bs belonging to ONE person, and as a general rule, multi-site networks of this kind do not excite me, thou there are a few kick tail.

But to address your post, I find building your own network is the only way to go, if that helps.
A good example of a guy built his own network (and IMO does very well) is the guy owns Internet tips and secrets.
I find what helped is he paid attention so most of his stuff is pretty good, and that makes all the difference in the world.
That, and it's his own, he built it all, he didn't copy or steal it, you can tell because the entire network of sites has the mark of his presence, and it's not bs.

 

This happened to me last week. I agreed to a 3 way link exchange with a PR4 site and my link was put on a PR0 page. 3 Way link exchanges are too difficult to manage. I'd rather exchange old fashioned reciprocal links with sites within my niche.
Most site owners arent familiar with the concept, which makes it even more difficult.

 

I am just simply declining them when they hit my email. Not gonna waste my time worrying whether my links are staying up or not.

 

(1) that's all you need to do, and (2) if they are in your "niche' that probably means they are also relevant to your website - it's highly unlikely that you'll have any problems with that strategy as long as you stay away from the major sleaze ball sites.

 

I think reciprical links are devalue just based on the fact that a year or two ago, I would trade a bunch of links and my sites rankings would rise in google, and now if I trade a bunch of links my rankings don't tend rise a lot in google

At first I thought it was just because the links were new, but I lost rankings on a lot of older sites that have lots of reciprical links in last google update.

I built a 3way link site , to trade 3 way links on my new sites, to test if it makes any difference. I am going to start advertising it tonight in 6 months I should have really strong answer on wether google values one way links more.

Also yahoo and msn love reciprical links so, I keep trading lots of them

 

That may depend more on where those links are coming from, who you are trading with, and the relevance of those links to your site.

 

Thats all possible too, but if you look at the top ranked sites, some have relevant backlinks and some don't

 

No doubt. I suspect one of the factors is the ratio of relevant to unrelated links. Another factor is that you are talking about newly added backlinks, I assume.

 

Hey everybody!

I have 4 travelling related sites and Images, Footage, Software related with PR 3-5, some are in DMOZ. If interested, pm, I'll be glad to exchange links with you.

Regards