Any incoming links can help just be careful of who you link to. Best to go for lots fo links across the board high PR , Low PR , .edus, .coms. vary up the anchor text but targeted as well. And keep doing it Jay
I don't know. I heard on this forum previously that link exchange (links) are devalued a lot. However John Chow is using this method to promote his site. johnchow.com So I am unsure.
link exchanges have devalued a lot. If you are going to exchange links do it for traffic and exchange links only with related sites. Keep your link exchanges a low percentage of your overall links
oh, just an update. direct link exchanges are only credited 1/2 of the value of those that are only one-way links. (read it from a source)
Links exchange improves our search engine ranking, only you should find a site with relevant content.
Link exchange is not bad. Try to get relevant links. Although oneway links are much more beneficial in terms of SEO.
No difference in terms of browsers but you may determine the difference in the datacenter you are using
If you do a lot of link exchanges, it would seem artifical rather then natural to the search engines. The whole point of the page ranking and how they gauge it is that they want to see others have interest for your site and wants to direct others to you. Try to do 3 way linking or buy 1 way linking. But you should try to remember that they need to be constant over time also. So in general. A few here and there won't really hurt your website, but if all of your inbound and outbound links are all exchanges then search engines are gonna realize that and might penalize for trying to manipulate your ranking.
I used to swap hundred if not thousands of links a day at one point you could just trade a bunch of links with anyone and you would rank great in google Thats right a couple years ago you could just trade links like crazy with every gambling and viagra site and rank for all but the most competitve terms is google , it was freaking great that is no longer the case, I have heard people say the link exchanges don't do anything anymore but in my experience trading links with relevant sites, by relavent I mean sites whose content, domain etc have the same keywords as you are targeting , still helps in google. Of course your site has to be old enough to be past whatever aging filters Trading links even unrelated ones still helps in yahoo, although in yahoo relevant links seem to work much better, trading links will still get your site indexed, still helps PR etc Except almost 99% of links pages are supplmental in google, so for one trading a bunch of links can hurt your site to adding supplemental pages to it, which are contagious Secondly there is all kinds of people now complaining that msn is banning their sites for trading links etc so that is another factor to consider
Link exchange is not bad. But do it carefully. Trade links with only good sites. Vary the anchor text and also don't exchange with link farms.
Chris369, You mentioned your blog. Are you talking about your blogroll? I've seen plenty of blog rolls that all link to each other with good PR, so those link exchanges can't hurt*. I also assume that you're not going to link to crap sites from it. Unless you're just doing a made for advertising blog, your reputation is tied to your blogroll to some degree. *In fact, I've seen some blogs with good PR and hardly any backlinks. But all the backlinks they do have are from other blogrolls.
if you are making link exchange with related sites, you will make profit from the link exchange but if you are making link exchange with everybody , it will hurt your site