MMM A competitor website is still slicing through the serps with JUST recips, . Roughly 95 % link profile
I have always traded links and have never had problems. My problems came from buying links from a site that was flagged by google. Site was de-indexed except for the home page within a month and PR dropped from a 3 to a 1.
I think I will buy some links next month....... for anyone cheaper than me..... Hurrah for Google I can't SEO my own sites.....but I can wee in the water for others....
A resource directory is fine. Include some links that are useful even if they don't link back. The FFA directories where you link to everything from jewlery, hotels, real estate, insurance, fishing, computers, toys etc is the kind of reciprocal link directory to stay away from. PM me the url. I'd like to see that. I think that if a site has enough trust and authority it pretty much can do what it wants.
The FFA directories are probably discounted but not penalized. The site looks like it has a good number of relevants liks and would have a good 'hilltop score'. Google uses a two step process to rank sites - PageRank (Authority) and Hilltop (Relevance).
I am doing an experiment right now. I have a pretty new site that I'm keeping strictly content and no monetization. It has a matching wordpress blog at the .info as well. Every page has a section with related sites that I think are helpful but I didn't exchange I just linked. There's no "links" page either, just related links on a per topic basis. Instead of the usual stuff like put it in a link exchange site, I have decided to give plenty of link love to related topics, tell other bloggers how awesome they are, stuff like that. My visitors have the option to bookmark my stuff but I'm not submitting my own stuff. I'm experimenting with what will occur by letting nature take charge. So far? Well, I never submitted it to any search engines yet it was listed in Google the day after I put it up and I'm getting opt-ins every day for the most part so somehow, people find it. I haven't been checking stats yet, I figured I'd give it some time to hang out. I thought it would be fun to strip away all the "tactics" and see what really goes on. I'll keep you posted. Sheree
Valley If you add a new page, with good content, Google will give that page "1 point". This is more than you had before. If you add one outbound link, Google will assign that link ~.4 point. You still will have more PR than you had before. Now, if you add ~20 outbound links that are on topic with SEO anchor text and ~20 word descriptions, they will share the outbound PR google assigns. It will not be 100%. Therefore, if all outbound links are "web hosting", you have created a unique content, on topic (web hosting) page. What is the difference between this and the DMOZ's "web hosting" page? I know I'm pushing this, but if you add more words to the descriptions, it makes this concept vaild.
Ahem Thread is about link juice NOT love juice No Serious have noticed that sites tend to index without submission. Was going to be my next post. I have a directory that OK was submitted, with no inbound..... But every what I would visually class as a good link...........outbound..... HAS PR JUICE Does google have a welfare system for new sites>?? As a separate algo?
If you have adsense on the site the adsense bot will crawl it. The bots have been known to crawl sites that are on the same shared hosting