You guys think that a reciprocal scheme of exchanging links is still worth the effort...? Are there not other more worthwhile things to spend your time on? Well of course content is top, but its no use you have the best site and no-one knows about it…
Defiitely it is. I bought a site on ebay about 2 months ago, and just made it live again 2 weeks ago. It was PR3, and was no where in the SERPs. I started exchanging links for it 2 weeks ago, and its main keyword is up to #15 already in google. Problem with exchanging links is that your link appears on a page with 100 other links, so when the link is new, its higher up on the page, so it is a lot better, but as that site adds more links, your links move down slowly but surely...so you need to keep getting more reciprocal links to keep getting the benefit of them. At some point, there is probably a point where it doesn't help much anymore, but as the simplest and most cost effective way of getting a new site found, it can't be beat.
Yep I am in favor of them both. Even if they dont help towards your pr they do help towards your link popularity which is also an important aspect... good luck
Yeah sure it helps... I'm just saying... isn't there a EASIER way to get the backlinks? I am a member of linkswappers etc... but it takes forever, and to get to 80 000 backlinks... man thats going to take some work! Also, would I get penalized if I link to 'unrelated' websites?
lol oh my bad.... easier? hmmm nope not that i can think of... with that linkswapper you can never be sure of what you are getting even if they allow you to choose the categories... i wish it were easier... another option is to pay someone to do the work for you... and pay based on msn or yahoo's link back count... so for each one of theirs that appears you pay them some money... just an idea.. maybe some other members have better ideas... i would love to hear them too..