No credit for links on all mayor search engines.

I have been using Linkmarket for a couple of weeks now, I have done about 10 reciprocal link trades and I have verified that all of this sites have a link to my site, like I mentioned before it has been at least a month but when I check google for:

Pages that link to "my site"

It shows only 2 links that those links from another site, also when I check AWSTATS it only shows 2 of the 10 sites linking to mine.

Is google not giving my site credit for those links?

Help Please


Url is my sig thanks!

 

You hit the nail on the head.

I kept track of link counts on all three engines and it is amazing the things I've seen lol

Google in the past updated link counts once every 90 days or so.

Maybe it will be quicker post BD but I doubt it as link spam really has G in a quandry.

Artificial link building is a waste of time.

What do you think Google and other engines see in a reciprocal link?

I vote for you...you vote for me = 0

If you do it for traffic then it is a good thing.

Doing it for rankings?? You would be running in place in my eyes.

Find high quality directories and submit the site there. One way links are the best. You can also write articles and distribute to build more links.

Hope this helps.

 

I disagree, as long as you exchange links with quality sites with relevant sites. Most, if not all, of my reciprocal exchanges show up as backlinks on msn and yahoo and a some of them show up in google. It just takes google a little longer to index them. Plus, if they are relevant sites, you may also receive traffic from them. I do. However, I don't use any link exchange programs, I do it 100% manually.

I don't consider this artificial link building because I don't accept all exchanges I receive and not all my requests are accepted either. It is not like "put my link your site and I will put yours on mine." There are some sites that may do that, but generally those are not the types of sites I want my link to be on.

 

Great info thanks guys!

 

I just took a peek at your site and I don't even see a resources or links page. Where are your exchanges? Also, at the bottom of the screen where is says 'resources' I tried clicking on two of the links and both of them froze my system up and closed it down.

If I were you, here is what I would do. You have a recipes site so I would do a search for recipes+resources/add url/add site/add link/links or something like that. And, manually find quality recipe and food related sites to exchange links with. Take the time to check them out before you send a request, check pr, backlinks, make sure they are not banned from google, etc. Then, you can start to build a quality directory with recipes and food related sites that will benefit your site visitors and rankings and most likely bring you targeted traffic as well. I would stay away from linkmarket or a link exchange program/website if I were you.

Also, search for 'recipe directory' and submit your site to any recipe themed directories you find.

Good luck!

 

Thanks for the great information.

 

I think you have to wait a little longer than a month to see all of your backlinks show up in Google and then it doesn't show all of them. I think it only shows the ones that have a PR4.

Also it may still not show all backlinks.

Also with Awstats, as far as I know it doesn't show any backlinks what so ever. The only way that you can see if a site is linking to yours using Awstats if you actually get a click that was referred from them.

 

Hi,

Today reciprocal links are totally vanised. you can only consider this type of link exchange to increase the traffic but not for site's PR and high ranking in SERP's. If you are really serious about your site rank high in SERP's then go for "One Way Link Exchange" also known as Incoming & Inbound links and see the difference. Today is the time of Non Reciprocal linking.
Suggest me if Iam wrong in my point.

Thanks
Bill

 

I don't think reciprocal linking is as good as it use to be and I don't even bother with it now. I am still doing reciprocal linking on two of my sites, but even then I don't bother that much in that they submit their site and I approve them.

When I say I don't really bother with it I mean that I will not go out of my way finding sites and linking to them so that they link back to me.

I just have not got the time and if people really are interested in linking to my site then they can simply using my reciprocal linking form.

I also find that alot of these sites that reciprocal link add my link to places that can't even be found by the search engines and in return they get a very good link on a very good PR page.

So I feel that alot of people want something for nothing.

Depending on how well my advertising goes and my other linking methods to increase link popularity, I may end up stopping link exchanges on all of my sites all together. This is only for the links section of my sites though.

To get an affiliate program listed within my affiliate programs directory still will require a reciprocal link and will always require one.

 

Link exchanges to RELEVANT SITES do help with sending targeted traffic to your site and also help to provide useful information for your site visitors. However, it still benefits your PR and your site's rankings in serps. Do one-way links hold more weight? Sure, no question about it. Get as many of those as you can. Does this mean that reciprocal links are useless? Nope. Search engines still count a link as a link plain and simple. Mutual link exchanges are different from reciprocal exchanges in that the exchange is between sites with related content. As long as you link to quality sites that are relevant to yours, these types of exchanges can only help you with traffic and rankings. Obviously, they should not be your entire link building strategy, but every link helps.

Should always keep this in mind when exchanging links:

1. Does the site have similar content to mine and will this site be of interest to my site visitors?
2. Is the site banned from google or contain hidden text, cloaking or any other black hat seo?
3. Is the site actively promoting their business, how many backlinks, what is their current pr?
4. Where will my link be on their site? Is it easy to find (1 or 2 clicks of the homepage) and how many links on each page? What other types of sites are on the page?

If you do you research, you can find some really good link exchange partners. It is time consuming, though.

 

I agree, reciprocal linking doesn't work and is not affective as it use to be, but if you are doing it right and linking only to sites that are on the same topic as yours then you can get some good traffic from doing it.

But having something like a links directory is not all that good. You have to try and get your site on other sites pages in good places where alot of their visitors look.

 

I do get a lot of traffic from my links in link directories so it depends on the site and layout. Also, how promient the link to their directory is and how many sites are there, etc. But if you can get a content link exchange or a homepage exchange that would be even better.

 

I get a little traffic from my links directory aswell, but don't think it is enough for the amount of work that you have to put in. I feel that you would probably get more and better results from writing articles.

 

It definately takes time, but I don't actively search out sites to exchange links with, but if I happen to come across one that I am interested in, I will send out a request. It only takes a few minutes to add their site and send the request out.

And, I stink at writing aritcles so that would take a lot more time.

 

The main thing is that you are doing what you think best works for you. If every body used the same way of advertising then advertising would not be like what it is today.

For example, if every body just advertised with Adwords and that was it then the bid prices would be even higher most probably and alot of the little sites would not survive.

That's one good thing about there being so many different forms of online and offline advertising.

 

Very true.

 

I do find it surprising how many people use what I view as rather shady link schemes. Its bound to backfire in the end, at the very best just be a waste of time. IMO

 

I don't really use any type of them link schemes anymore.

I just don't think it is worth it.