Link exchanges should be pretty helpful as long as the people you are linking to do not have any fishy websites like duplicate content or pornography stuff.
I signed up with linkmarket. All the sites on there are just pure junk, absolute crap adsense sites churned out by the minute. Did nothing for the ranking of my site and to top it off linkmarket re-charged my credit card when they had no right to. They gave no information upon initial sign up that the credit card details were kept on file for recurring billing and they don't even email you prior to re-charging - only afterwards! I asked for my money back and this is what I got in reply: The standards are set by their merchants? Which merchants are those? What a load of cack. When you log into your account you cannot remove the recurring billing option. Steer clear of these scammers.
I would go farther and say to avoid all link exchanges and select sites based exclusively on relevance. If a site is relevant, link to it whether or not the webmaster links back to you. 3-way link exchanges are still link schemes; they are thus a black-hat SEO technique. I'd say they're even more "black-hat" than a traditional link exchange, because now, in addition to just trying to boost your rankings, you're now taking more efforts to hide the fact that you're doing it. It's like committing a sophisticated cover-up over of a straightforward fraud. The fraud will get you a jail sentence and the cover-up might make it worse. The link exchange may get you bumped slightly in the rankings, but trying to game the system by doing 3-way link exchanges might get you heavily penalized. Why waste your time with this stuff anyway? If you link generously to relevant and useful sites, and have an outstanding site, people will link generously to you without having to resort to black-hat schemes.
A link from your site A to your link partners site B and he links from his site B to your site C. A 3way link exchange means that more then 2 sites are involved in the exchange and none of them does a reciprocal (direct) link exchange. Hope that helps, SY PS Read also the other comments regarding linking to related sites and being careful to which sites you link to.
It still helps but exchange links with niche that is related to your site because most of the user in Linkmarket wants to exchange link with all users
Hi....the user could be any one, but mostly the webmasters see their requirements either fulfilled or not from the next person.
I agree with people. Related links more valuable than pagerank. But also abc or 3 way link would be better
Personally, I think there are more productive ways of spending your time. So while a bit of link exchanging might produce results and add balance - other activities, such as blog posting with anchor text in your backlinks is much quicker and easier.
Use becomes abuse. And if you plan to be around for the next few years, abuse achieves little besides wasting everyone's time. There are so many ways of getting links legitimately, it's all rather pointless.