hello dp mambers, Google will ban link exchange programmes very shortly, and google start his process,and drop high PR site's page rank who included in link exchnage ,whether they are paid listing or Not. DP Guys please give me your opinion for this... Please Be carefull about this...... Regards, Prakash
They can't penalize a link exchange beacause google never know between which websites they are made...
Reciprocal links are already devalued, and most link exchange programs are populated with spammy, crappy sites
If by "Link Exchange Program", you are referring to "Link Farms", then yes, we all should know that by now. They aren't good. If you just mean a common link exchange between two webmasters of similar content, then I doubt they would do that. And like gazu has already mentioned, reciprocal link exchanges are already devalued, but not penalized. But, I don't claim to know. -boxer126
Very old news. Google have been penalizing link exchange programs for a couple of years - go back and read the screams when several programs promoted in these forums got chopped. On paidlinks, Google have deprecated them for as long as they have had a dialogue with webmasters. Specifically, for months now, they have stated an intention to take steps against them, which now seems to be happening. Interestingly, the consensus in these forums was that Google could never detect paidlink sellers - just as pundits here insisted that Google could never detect 'multi-way link exchanges'. Looks like Google 2, DP 0 Time to smell the coffee, guys!
Question: What Does Google DO? Answer: Follows Links. Of course Google CAN penalize link exchanges, but the supplementary questions are much more interesting: Do they? Yes, in some circumstances Which ones? Link farms, site-wide non-related, reciprocal non-related, paidlinks (none of this is proven, but all are very likely) Why? To exclude sites that may damage the quality of the search results How? 99% by automatic action based on their search algorithm. As the algorithm's prime function is to follow links, it takes only a little rocket science to deduce that after all these years, Google have learned a thing or two about links, link patterns, and link exchanges. They Have The Knowledge - And They Are Not Afraid To Use It
Example : www.daniweb.com Had PR 7 and Now PR 4,and if google will not stop there process then it goes to PR 0 also(and even those sites also affected who had done link exchange with daniweb)
Hellooo, This is joke for you ,but not for us...Okay....... This time is not for joke,this time is for thinking about this.....
Appears to be another person not understanding what they are talking about. I see you mentioned sites losing PR that didn't sell or buy text links. Have you considered that maybe a lot of their backlinks were? As the sites backlinks PR drops so will the sites. (I'm assuming at the point you have an idea how pagerank is calculated) Remember, the WWW is all connected by hyperlinks. Basicly seeing sites lose PR when google starts penalizing link sale sites is totally expected.
Theres no way to know if I exchanged links with joe. We could both have links to each other, but is that a link exchange? MAybe we both just linked to each others site without knowing.. I Doubt google will attack all reciprocal links.
Isn't this the reason we do three-, four- and n-way links exchanges, to add a little indirection to the process that makes it too much of a gamble for Google to guess?
Dear just w8 for few day's when Google updation will complete and one more think which i say to you there is several thing work's for pr not a single link will not effect your pr if your back link not on any Google ban site or some more few thing but in your case www. daniweb.com not baned by google may be some more reasons behind this you can find more here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=528191 many big sites loose there pr but you can't say that all these are due to link exchange. Google can not be banned any site for link exchange just w8 for the total updation. Bcz it's very early to say any thing.