Is link exchange dead?

Many site owners are surviving on link building so its not dead but link building should be 1 way, not 2 way but you can also use linkwheel.

 

I don't think link exchange is dead. At least a good link exchange work will do favor for each other's website traffic.

 

Definitely not dead but it's hard to find quality sites that will put your link to theirs.

 

The system has been flogged to death and abused by spammers to such an extent it is now redundant. You might get a short term results but why go to all the hassle to place links you are going to have to replace sooner rather than later.

 

I see link exchange being used more for traffic trades , rather than the old exchange of link juice..

 

Links are counted as vote. If you stop link exchange, You can not ranked your sites in search engine.So do link exchange with PR sites with low OBL.

 

Link exchange via blogs works well. You list other blogs in your niche and they list you.

 

Agreed. It still benefits me too so i think it is still useful and not yet dead.

 

LOL this was the perfect reply!

 

Matt Cutts said Google expects link exchanges to happen between websites in similar niches, that it is natural and expected, as long as Google sees the exchange as providing value to the searcher.

An indirect link exchange in related niches is the best way to go, if you have time to devote to it. Here is an explanation:

Webmaster named Sam has sites in these niches with different IP addresses:
golf balls IP address 1
radio controlled airplanes IP address 2

Webmaster Todd has sites in these niches with these IP addresses:
golf clubs IP address 3
model boats IP address 4

Sam gives a link from his golf balls site to Todd's golf club site.
Todd gives a link from his model boats site to Sam's radio controlled airplanes site.

Todd provides the article for Sam to use at the golf balls site, putting an anchored link for golf clubs in the middle of the post.
Sam provides the article for Todd to use at the model boats site, putting an anchored link for radio controlled airplanes in the middle of the article.

So it takes only two people to share two related niches. Each person's sites in the exchange should be on different IP addresses for maximum benefit.

There used to be a great site for these types of exchanges, which was run by RT Cunningham from Untwisted Vortex, called Connect Content. Then CC was sold to Mark and Court at their Keyword Academy, and inside there it did not get much attention, which is too bad. I had been seeing great results with it.

 

to me i still use link exchage to reduse time. But it help or not . ask Google webmaster tool . if have there mean good . dont have mean bad . to me is like this

 

link exchange with related site also helps in so but alone it cant do anything you have to make hubs and squido lenses and join forums to do good seo.

 

Link exchange is an important part of a link building process.

 

I don't agree with that. The net used to be about people sharing and communicating. And people have always followed good links, still follow useful links. Should it not be more about trust?

 

I tried reciprocal linking but was warned off very quickly. Directories are lists of links. And no matter how carefully the owner is there is a 50/50 chance of linking out to one of the bad ones. Would you link to a site that is linked into a bad neighbourhood? It's easy to make make mistakes and it takes a long time to fix.

 

Even in its heyday link exchanges was not very popular, since the increase in traffic was gradual, but the effort for getting that was substantial. But, if the links that you get are from sites that have a similar topic to yours, then you stand a chance.