I am receiving new reciprocal link exchange requests now a days littlebit differently. People put their my link on site xyz.com and they ask for back link for site abc.com. This way, it becomes a one way link. In future, it will happen that, everybody doing SEO will have 2 sites. One major site which will have just one way incoming link and minor site which will have majority oneway outgoing links. Even searchengines will not be able to find this problem and they may go for reducing links value.
Hi aspcoder That particular practice has been around for a while now. It's the linking practices for wms that operate hundreds of sites that are the fun ones Cheers, JL
we have been doing this for last six months and i think its better than reciprocal linking. and more nice if you need to make lot of links
But i really don't like and don't do link exchange when somebody ask for link from one site in exchange for a link from another site.Ultimately another site is going to loos pagerank and importance.
You can't lose PR Regardless, I've been doing triangle links for years and they can benefit all parties.
I can see the benefit in trying to avoid SE penalties.My only concern is with the quality of the links. Linking should be related content, it doesn't have to be the same topic but it should be in a contextual article or post, unless it's an ad. Pages of unrelated links are no good to anyone, I am guilty of having a links page on one site, but never again.
While probably not the only reason for three-way links, the popularity of this strategy is based on the myth that Google "penalizes" reciprocal links - that IMO is nonsense. If Google "penalizes" backlinks of any kind (other than the obvious known ones), it is more likely to be non-relevant/off-topic links -- and three way linking in itself won't help that at all.
Three-way links are beneficial to both the party and no one looses.... its basically one-way links for both the link partners
My opinion: Three-way linking is unnecessary and your time could be better spent doing other things to enhance and promote your site. But if it makes you feel better, by all means do it...
A very ancient practice ! And with all this open talk abt 3 ways lemme remind you folks that G does not approve such tactics. So watch out ...
3-way links are slightly betteer than recip links. search engines can easily spot 3-way links. If most of your links are 2-way links or 3-way links, it'll do no good for your SERPs.
Why is this myth so persistent? There is nothing wrong with reciprocal links. There is absolutely no evidence that Googkle discounts or penalizes links because they are reciprocal. Three way links are NOT better than two way links. If anything, I agree with topicalone -- they are more likely, not less likely, to cause you grief in the long run. If you just focus on linking out to sites that are helpful to your visitors and relevant to your web pages, and getting other pages with relevant content to link back to you, you will have absolutely nothing to worry about.
More like "common sense + simple myth = nonsense". It's certainly not simple math, or even complex math. It's just not true.
Google's algo is based on math it's a myth for those who is lack of math intelligence words wihtout intelligible meaning is nonsense
Not any math based on punishing reciprocal linking. Care to share your mathematical proof? We're all dying to see it, honestly. If you'd like to tell me which words you didn't understand, I'll be happy to explain them.
in Graphic Theory, a web page is a node and the entire web can be represented as a matrix. It's pretty easy to calculate the distance between any two nodes. When Google says a link is a vote. The reliability of vote is propertional to the distance of two nodes. recip links ( distance of one) is less reliable than any votes. the distance for 3-way links is two. Google doesn't penalize recip links. Recip links is just less valuable than true one-way links.
Says who? This isn't mathematical proof of anything. It's just another way of restating your belief in a myth.