Citation analysis works well in academic environments but kinda falls a part in a commercially driven direct marketing environment (which is what the web is). Many search algorithms may be able to detect link trading as an artificial means of boosting the popularity of both sites and discount the value of these links. By doing a three way link from sites hosted on different servers a webmaster can build link popularity without the search engine being able to detect the link trading as easily.
Website ranking involves more than just putting your website online. The old addage, "Build it and they will come" is no longer true. You need to not only have quality content on your website but also focus on getting good backlinks but also relevant backlinks. The kind of links you gather and where the link is placed on the other site will also determine the amount of traffic you get and your ranking in the search engines. Google and Yahoo rank websites according to how many quality backlinks they find pointing at your website. Quality is determined by how relevant the other site is to your site and where the link is placed on their page (within the content is best) and how many other links are on the page (less is better). A large number of links pointing at your site does not guarantee success. You need quality backlinks in order to rise to the first page of results and the more you can find the better. Google started devaluing traded links in Fall of 2007 and started penalizing directories that used dishonest means to raise their own PR so they could sell links. Google penalized those directories by dropping their PR (Page Rank) to Zero and Keyword Rank so far that they didn't even rank for their own business name. This also affected the rank of sites that bought links from those directories because their link count dropped. If you have been buying links from directories and your PR or keyword rank is dropping it may be because of Google penalizing those directories. This causes those sites to put rel="nofollow" on the links to protect themselves, thus you are no longer credited for those links you bought which reduces your PR and thus your Keyword Rank. Google also penalizes sites for getting involved in Triangular Linking Schemes, i.e., "I'll link to your site from my site if you link to my other site" (they do this so it doesn't look like a link trade but Google knows how to spot these also). Google can also penalize sites for getting involved in Link Exchange Scams. Therefore the best way to encourage people to link to your content is to provide information that is useful to your visitors.
My personal opinion the best way to get back links first of all search engine optimization, directory submission, Article submission , press release submission,blog comment, forum posting and many types of seo activities.
You can get link by posting articles, blogs, forums, do bookmarking, directories, press release, you should link exchange with only quality sites with good PR and most importantly only White SEO techniques!
Links in unique and quality contents look like organic and logical, so such links really work and PR comes. I agree with all above comments and respect their opinion. Regards, askmewrite
Thanks for the reply. I have thought of contacting them but they don't seem to be linking back to any other sites either so I reckon they will not link back to ours and simply remove the articles. I don't particularly want this to happen.
if you give links more den 1or 2 times, the administrator consider them to be spam and will not give links back.
in my opinion the forums gives the solid back links...articles and press releases are also going to be a major part
i think the best way is to create a Large variety of system links via articles, forums, blog comments, links exchange with good sites (high pr). one source its not good enough. have a good day my friend
Anyone try css template submission? most of the free template site have high PR and those template could be download by thousand of site owner. Some company submit a quality template to wordpress, and it return with million of link back.
Source of link where you got the links, social bookmarking article submission forum posting profile creation blog comment