Link Exchange Websites...

I have experience with this site. I use the free version, meaning you're listed on the linkpartners site for people to find you and want to link to you, but you still enter links manually. I don't want to pay the monthly money at this point for a few minutes work to enter links.

But it has been excellent. I've obtained a ton of links from there.

Marty
http://www.itsalreadysigned4u.com

 

I found one site which might be a useful link and im going to email for it.

 

I use linkspartner on a couple of sites. One of them showed a lot of new links in last night's upgrade and the other one lost links. So no conclusive evidence there. I don't see why Google would punish sites that use linkspartner. The process is pretty straight forward if reciprocal linking is what you are into.

I think Shawn asked how would Google know the links were from linkspartner? I think the answer is that linkspartner writes the links pages and provides all the "add your URL" scripting. So anyone using these link pages would be pretty easy to spot.

 

I am listed on link partners, but have manualinks pages. I do not rely on their Link Manager system. My links just jumped huge as did my ranking. Probably because I don't use their system I guess. Altho, I do know of and see many high ranking ones that do. So I'm not sure that is a factor anyway.

MB
http://www.itsalreadysigned4u.com

 

One more kick at the can. There is no way Google can differentiate between a link aquired from another linksmanager user versus a link that is entered by hand via the "add your URL" script. Once the link is on the page there is no indication where it came from. So if Google is going to penalize any links managed by linksmanager it will have to penalize them all or none.

But I don't think Google is penalizing linksmanager pages. Here is my Links Page. You can see it has a PR4 PageRank. I hardly think Google would give it that PR if they were penalizing LinksManager pages. And as to recognizing the page there is an animated gif on the page that says powered by LinksManager. You could hardly be more upfront than this.

And Shawn what is wrong with reciprocal linking? It is unreasonable to expect that many people will link to you without a link back. I know there are exceptions. I link to your corporate web site in gratitude for the excellent free tools you offer, but this type of arrangement is the exception rather than the rule.

 

I don't think that is correct. Google doesn't like link farms, but there are lots of entirely legitmate circumstances where sites will have reciprocal links. Lets say I designed and hosted your web site. I would expect you to allow me to put my link on the bottom of your home page if not every page.

In turn I would put up a link to your page from both my company hosting page and my company design page. One would be in the category "Sites we Host" and the other in the category "Sites we Designed". So our two sites would be exchanging linkings. You think Google is going to filter these out? These entirely legitimate reciprocal links.

Hell the Internet or the web is built on links. There is no way Google is going to filter them out. What they may do is start applying some relevance value based on the theme of the page the link comes from, but they will never filter them out IMHO.

 

I agree, I don

 

List of Link Exchange Websites


Before you take the time to register at every one of them...

- set up a directory with a form so that people can submit their site to your database,

- set up a new email address with an auto responder email telling people that you would be happy to consider their link request if they fill out the form...

- use the new email address for every Link Exchange service you sign up for.

I'm still doing my link trades by hand - but just discovered some php Link Management software that even automates the link checking.

Take the time to set up in advance for your link exchanges - save yourself my learning curve!!

Regards,

Doug

 

I think that these link exchange websites are a bad signal to google, it is better to stay away from it since it may look like a link farm, I would go with indevidual link exchange
/BP

 

exactly, this is the reason I wrote me own
/BP

 

This is more like it. If there's one thing that proves a perpetual headache to me, its linkage.. I've only just noticed this thread, and I'd like to offer a few observations.. and ask a question or ten !

Firstly, I use both LinksManager/LinksPartners, (but I don't appear on linkspartners - I just use it to compliment LM) and I can say that google is not penalizing all associated sites. I **have** made use of their cosmetics controls however to ensure nothing lives at defaults, and their banner is gone etc.

The downside - and the quandry of I imagine all folks linkhunting, is the sheer time involved. Oh BTW I have no problem with link exchanges. There's alot of mundane jobs to be done, and expediting matters through sensible organization (ie link exchange sites) is a great idea, provided you remain aware of your audiences needs. In other words, if they ever bother to look at a links page/s, it had better have relevant links or they're gone (via adsense.. but lets not go there

Simply put, while off page criteria hold so much weight, it's important to find a way to sensibly acquire and maintain linkage - and reciprocation is the glue/courtesy that ensures all benefit.

Rambling done. Qualifying Done. Question time;

What IS the best way to secure linkage ?.. please, think about it before answering, because I've heard almost every angle.. though obviously not enough !!! - well, either that or todays seos have particularly FAT wallets/purses and simply buy it all in

Let me state my objective. I can't waste hours (ie linksmanager - 8 hours straight) to wade through/select 1800 odd links partners. Then receive just 420 replies thereto, the majority of which read: here's your link xxxx.asp?page=/xyz (either the links were totally useless in terms of passing PR, they didn't use the anchor text I wanted because the linkpartners email wasn't clear enough, or both).

I chose the above to demo time wastage because It's also a paid service. It's paid because even THAT is a significant improvement on the norm.

So: In simple terms, I'd really appreciate it if those of you who do it (SEOing) for a living and HAVE to know the best way to either locate and/or acquire inventory) would simply state the 5 best ways to locate quality linkage opportunities. Keeping in mind that theming & PR are extremely relevant, and that for competitive reasons you're not going to disclose the golden geese, any realistic observations would be really helpful. A new fresh look at this, given emerging resources etc..

Let me begin with:

Structured Searches (engines)
Sites offering brokerage or management
Auction sites offering.. well.. auctions
Xchange Automation Software (desktop binaries)

The above tend to either be extremely time consuming, expensive, ill advised, or all three. My view is volume/relevant linkage >= pr3 would be preferred above a few highly priced PR8s.. time.

Anyone ?

 

Hi ViciousSummer,

I prefer not to part with URL's, as you'll notice from my profile (or absence thereof). Having access yourself to the LM interface tho, you could try tweaking your own - CSS can do a lot for a site, not to mention you can name your files whatever you want (ie info1_x.php), and add headers, footers etc, remove banner, remove/include search functionality etc.

If all you want to do is verify PR on LM pages - and cross referencing said pages **would** prove useful for you, simply go take a look at LM's robots.txt file. Therein you'll find a comprehensive list of all current account directories. Have a trawl and see for yourself.

Hope that helps