I'm getting really frustrated lately with the high amount of people removing my link after the trade, thinking that I wont look or notice. There have been 4 different users here who have pulled this crap just last month alone! To the honest people looking to establish good trades, please make sure you check your links to see if they are still up on the sites you trade with here. Don't just assume they will stay. There have been members who seem honest who have pulled this as well. And to the people who remove the links, I know you're doing it thinking you get more PR juice when it becomes a one-way link to your site, but its really sleazy. If you don't want the link on your site anymore, then have the courtesy to inform the trader so he can remove yours as well. Do the right thing for a change.
I find this happens a lot and like you, it really frustrates me. I used to do a lot of trading with people on forums such as this but found a really high rate of link removals. I got to the point where I wouldn't trade with anyone who wouldn't send me a personal email. I figure if they don't want me to have their email address, I'm not going to bother. I came back today to start over and saw your message, looks like it's still an issue :-( Email me at chilllinkbuilding@yahoo.com . I don't remove links and the 2 sites I am exchanging links for currently have PR5 and PR6 homepages. However, I am only interested in trading links with sites relevant to graphic design and other B2B services.
well, some of the 'traders' do not even understands what you or i or someone say and what requirements you stated (english language issue), ... or understands in the way they want to... But usually it isn't hard to understand even from the first pm who is who. I find very comfortable to monitor backlinks - use online reciprocal checkers. I use that one http://tools.seobook.com/general/link-check/ (im not promoting anything or exactly this one, you can google and may find better, i just got it in my first search and im satisfied) Simply paste urls from txt file to a field for that, then type your site name, and see all in one page who has it and who cheats. Very easy, no need to look in each page. Im still lucky with my several partners - all are honest. But if someone do a bulk exchanges, i think all happens. Another tip is to check if it is not set as 'nofollow', i bet thats really happens a lot too, just that thing is not so visible.
It's cause people want all the link juice/value without really having to give any back. Link exchange is worthless mainly cause the amount of hassle is not worth the link values.
This problem is not about this forum but about the web in general. I used to trade links, as did a lot of sites until about 18 months ago. I went through my link pages and lo and behold was I shocked and disappointed. Fully 50% of the links were no longer reciprocated without any notice to me. Like a fool I emailed everyone of the previous reciprocal link "partners" and got a few responses saying "sorry, we couldn't find our link"- which was a flat lie as I was looking at it. Most other did not bother responding, and why would they- what would they say? So I deleted the non reciprocal partners, and I check my links every 30 days or so. I have to remove a couple each time but I don't email them anymore-why bother? Google made it clear that it does not favor reciprocal as it is an attempt to manipulate the serps, but also unless you are meticulous your reciprocal links will often become one way links.
But this is true even of 3 way (non recip) links. I had several of those go sour as well. I'm thinking it might be a good idea to "name and shame" the cheaters on one of my webmaster sites. I know its against the rules to post the names on DP, but I can do what I want on my own sites, right? Or would that just make me look like a bitter asshole?? What do you think...good idea or not??
That's one of the main reasons not to trade links. Just focus on one way links. Its faster and more powerful!
Many webmasters these days are just irresponsible and will delete your link without prior notice, so I carefully choose my link partners. Doing link exchanges is very tricky!
I am also considering of stopping link exchange, the hassle is just too big, i had removed like 80% of my links so far because they have placed lot of links irresponsibly, linking to all the bad websites and scams, etc and some of them remove the links so you have to keep checking them etc... some even wanted to trade links and their homepage had a nofollow attribute on the link or they denied bots to crawl from robots.txt... so i am seriously thinking to remove all links and just forget it... at first i was optimistic but too many scammers/careless people will get me to close the links section for good... or maybe i will just leave it open for high reputable pages or something... will think soon but i plan to close in a month or something =\
I have site with PR3...if you want put link in my site ( walkforwater.org)....just $20 permanent.....trust me Thanks
When you do the deal tell them that you check the link location regulary so if they remove your link you will remove theirs.
To be honest, i've removed links accidentally a few times through stupidity. Once I did it when I completely changed the layout of my one of my sites and had no clue what the backlinks were. Another was when I was checking inlinks and couldn't find my link on their site forgetting that it was 3 way.
That almost happened to me last week. I moved a site to another server and imported the xml file in WP and everything looked ok except the blogroll links weren't there. I had to go to Google cache to see how it should look! lol
I recently checked all my link exchange links for a site of mine. 90% of the links to my site dissapeared! So in a rage i just deleted all of their links
Wow so should link exchanges even be trusted? I'm new to websites and all so I'm still learning all the possiblitys of getting traffic to your site so would it be recommended to use link exchanges or not Thanks, John