Firstly, I hope I understand the meaning of "backlinks" properly. That said: I've been getting some steady traffic to my site recently from searches for other sites listed as friends. Is this always a bad thing? And how and why would you want to discourage backlink traffic if it is? Should I stop exchanging links with other sites? I thought link exchange was a good way to promote your site. Thanks.
i would say that all backlinks are a good thing, outbound links can be considered bad if you link to a bad neighbourhood site etc.
Looks like I dont get your question properly but LEs when done with related sites can get some traffic and this is good .
Why bad?? I don't think that it will harm your PR. Even back linking with a low traffic site, the worst you can get is a few extra visitors, no?
All inbound links do positive for your site, some links from bad neighborhood may not good but you won't be penalized as it's out of your control. You should consider outbound link, it may harm if you - linked to your own sites on same class C ip. - linked to site with non-related theme of your main site. - Place too many links without organized or kind of likely to be "link farm"
it depends on a lot of things: - how new is your site - how fast is gaining links - what type of links is gaining
it is true that is one source of promotion, but i don't see the point of having more backlinks is bad to particular site. when you get a link partners just make it sure that there is a relevancy to your site. thanks
there are so many oppinions about Inbound links and Outbound links as many webmasters! No one knows exactly the secret of their importance because all the search engines doesn't have strict steps to follow in order to assure the best website marketing. There are a lot of contradictions if you analyze websites in time. Speaking about time... I consider it the most important thing in website developing as well as patience. We will find almost the right answers to our questions regarding the search engines as we become more experienced and there's no hurry for that! General affirmations like : "Oubound links are bad for your site" or "Bad neighbourhood" etc... mustn't stop our website evolution and must not reduce our moral down to 0 giving us panic and headache. If there is no public list with the right steps on how to develop a website in order to be number 1 in google for kewords "Number 1" how could anyone guarantee for a number 1 position in searches ?
backlinks are good as long as you don't link to bad site's when looking for link exchange, link exchange only to related and trusted site.
Backlinks are not bad always. Dont stop looking for a link exchange partners because it is a backlinks for your site. Make sure to check the quality of links