Hello, I know that reciprocal links are not good, but, lets say www.somesite.com linked to www.mysite.com . If i were to then put up a link from www.mysite.com/page2.html or www.mysite.com/directory TO www.somesite.com, would this still be considered reciprocal linking? or is this okay?
yh sure it will be reciprocal and google bot will check the domain only not the internal pages. So it will be reciprocal and also the linked site not so bad will not cause any problem for ur site and get little benifit compared to one way link
I think it should not harm if you are linking with quite relevant website which project that it worth to linkback.
Reciprocal links should just be used to drive traffic, so your statement that reciprocal linking is "bad" isn't entirely true, the link just won't be counted or pass any love. If the link is from a good site that will pass traffic, go for it. Other than that, rena put it best. The bot will easily pick up the identical domains and discount it as a one-way link.