Recently, I've been seeing that several directory submitters who opt for free reciprocal link option have resorted to what may be called Reciprocal Link Fraud. Instead of adding the reciprocal link to their own domain while submitting, they are producing other's reciprocal link while submitting their own listing to my directories. They are searcing through search engines with "linkdomain:" or similar macros and using the data to submit fraud reciprocal links so that their domains get one-way links from my directories. Now, this is not ethical at all and can be considered as a new form of fraud and spamming. What are other directory owners' take on this issue ? How are you planning to or are already combating this ? I use phpld script. Is there a built-in feature which can stop this ? Presently, I'm deleting any submitted free link which does not have a reciprocal link from that domain itself.
that's right, that's why am doing these things manually! it takes a lot of time and energy, but then i prefer to do these things manually as i want to be absolutely sure, about the backlinks
wow .. these spammers got some brain .. i wud never even think of this way ... thts y i charge for recirprocal also now seeing this thinking about removing that option.
some reciprocal pages do have your link there but will never reach by SE since it is not linked by the homepage...
I have seen a couple of those spams. It's usually a 3 way linking, so it's not too difficult to catch them. But it could be confusing if you have accepted 3 way reciprocal links before.
My experience is that reciprocals are a waste of time, whenever I get one it's on a crap links page. I've still not worked out how to remove the option in admin panel so the reciprocal option doesn't show.
I don't know anything about directories but what about only allowing reciprocal links from the domain where the directory link is pointing to? Notting
I got tired of paying for listings in directories only to have the owner turn around at a later date and submit a reciprocal listing in eWebPages Directory, so I've removed that option completely.
Ban their domain name n IP I don't have reciprocal option for link submission, All crappy links comes with reciprocal.
Quite true...and I take the time to find the same. What I find from the feedback of you all is to eother ban the domains and IPs and/or remove reciprocal link submission completely. But, I think the good reciprocals can naturally increase your directory PR over time.
hehehehehh Ok ive added thier own site in recip fields and tell them to submit and i will gladly accept thier site but not that neat trick... got to hand it to them they are getting smarter... To be honest.... RECIP will no longer be accepted in any of my directories as its just a bunch of bull as they will delete your link within the hour after being included in yours so they actually paid less then the honest guy and then screwed you over or added your link on some crap link page... So if i need links ill just buy my own thx.... thx malcolm
I have removed reciprocal listings for quite a few people. It's not a big deal and I just hop in there and usually delete it based on them telling me they will not ever be using them. So, here is the deal: With the way phpld is currently setup in the backend admin section: 1. if you set reciprocals to 0 there will be no payment and they will be free, and say free and show. 2. if you set reciprocals to $xx amount, they will be paid, and give the $xx amount and show. To just turn them off and only show them to be viewable by entering a dollar amount do the following: File to edit: submit.tpl find: {if $price.reciprocal gt 0} <tr><td><input type="radio" name="LINK_TYPE" value="reciprocal" {if $LINK_TYPE eq 'reciprocal'}checked="true"{/if}>{l}Regular with Reciprocal{/l}</td><td>{$smarty.const.HTML_CURRENCY_CODE}{$price.reciprocal}</td></tr> {elseif $price.reciprocal eq 0} <tr><td><input type="radio" name="LINK_TYPE" value="reciprocal" {if $LINK_TYPE eq 'reciprocal'}checked="true"{/if}>{l}Regular links with reciprocal{/l}</td><td>{l}free{/l}</td></tr> {/if} and REMOVE this out of that section: {if $price.reciprocal gt 0} <tr><td><input type="radio" name="LINK_TYPE" value="reciprocal" {if $LINK_TYPE eq 'reciprocal'}checked="true"{/if}>{l}Regular with Reciprocal{/l}</td><td>{$smarty.const.HTML_CURRENCY_CODE}{$price.reciprocal}</td></tr> {elseif $price.reciprocal eq 0} <tr><td><input type="radio" name="LINK_TYPE" value="reciprocal" {if $LINK_TYPE eq 'reciprocal'}checked="true"{/if}>{l}Regular links with reciprocal{/l}</td><td>{l}free{/l}</td></tr> {/if} As i said, what this will do is only show the reciprocal section in your submit if you have a price that is greater than 0, otherwise it will NOT show. Rob