I am just working through my back log of link exchange requests on Link Metro and I have been rejecting a lot of them because my link has been on pages 2+ on their link pages or they have hundreds of links on the same page. Should I be rejecting these requests on the above basis because as far as I am concerned they present no benefit to PR or human traffic as ppl probably won’t get that far down the list. Or should I be accepting them purely on the basis that it is another link back to my site? Thanks all.
Reject them. Whats the point in getting rubbish links? And never ever exchange links with rubbish sites.
These links are low-quality and spammy, IMO. And since you are required to link back, don't go for it, or prepare to get penalized. I say what's the point of using link exchange networks, really. Warkot
It's true, We've used linkmetro and have had several sites filtered out because of it...using the regular method now.
I have just stop using linkmetro.. ppl still adding link to my site, but when i check MSN, none of those link show up,,,,so it is useless
Linkmetro is becoming useless for those with sites PR4 or greater. Brad told me three months ago that he was going to put on a Linkmetroan option to select linking sites that took into account page rank. Still nothing and still the low or no PR spammy sites come requesting links from me.
I've had 0 luck with link exchange sites of any kind. Even if it gets me links, it also gets my sites penalized heavily. It's not a good thing. Be extremely careful with link exchanges on your sites.
Well, I wouldn't generalize it that way. I always manually review who I link to, and when in doubt, I don't do it. This way I never went far wrong, and NEVER got penalized. However, I know far too many examples of people being penalized after using link exchange networks including Link Metro. I think you can stay in the clear with them, but most of the sites in these networks are just too spammy, so eventually you're gonna get it. Warkot PS: BTW, Blackbeard, your blog is nice
Cheers all, I have now removed my site from linkmetro and shall proceed down the normal rout of gaining link exchanges.
sorry to say but linkmetro is worthless atleast for free users. Never tried paid version. I have already wasted lot's of time there and I will advice people to stay away from it unless you can make everything automated(in paid once). The worthless links will never be crawled by any bot
That's just what I was going to say! Their link exchange stopped giving any benefit when they started that automated service where the link is added on a webpage of yours automatically. It was very good when it was manual. But now people simply pay and add a link to hundreds of sites without even looking at pages that are generated. Then they expect us to link back to their home page after they have placed our link on what can only be defined as spammy pages. I doubt that they even get indexed...
No the don't. It's very simple for Google to determine such link farms(all have similar link structure) so they won't index such pages and worst, you can even penalized for lnking to them.
The worst thing about Linkmetro is that they make it very hard for you to remove yourself from their system. You can stop getting emails but try stopping the spammy links from building up regardless. This is a very poor service that needs a lot of attention by the site owners before it loses all credability.
I've been with linkmetro for a couple of months, and as you've already mentioned, rejected those sites where the link is burried deep where no one will find it. I have decided to cancel my membership, my question is, do I leave the script and links on my site or do I remove the script and manually create pages with the existing links, or do I scrap the lot and start again? Your views would be appreciated.
I never found Linkmetro to be worthwhile I only ever recieved requests from rubbish sites and/or you end up on a link page 10 pages deep.
Another option: Instead of doing it manually, you could download LinkAssistant (they have a free trial), use it to harvest links from the pages into the program, then generate your links pages again, automatically. I hope I got it right and this is what you want. If not, forget it. Anyway, that's what I did when I found myself in a similar situation a year ago. And yeah, I think you should definitely remove the server-side script anyway. Warkot