Does My Links Page Fail?

[cz]

I have a links page that I've had for years, but there's so much talk about reciprocating to irrelevant sites that I'm worried about it.

It's here: http://www.safetyenforcement.com/resources.html and I'm not sure if I should get rid of the links to sites not related. They have been there for years but algorithms change and I would happily begin again to regain my results (80%) lost in Jagger and never recovered.

I have another site with non relevant links but it has held fast through all the updates. Odd?

Anyone please?

[greeneagle]

IMO - I'd cast off the irrelevent OBLs (recips)... Drop the whole "recip mentality" and add a few high ranking relevant but non competitive links. It doesn't hurt to extend relevant traffic. If they reciprocate relevant traffic back... "It's all good". Relevant recips are still "pretty".

Ken

[cz]

Thanks Ken,
I'm going to try out your suggestion and get up to speed. The advice you've posted is more like what is happening "now". My link page reflects the mentality of what was happening "then" (when it was made). I hope to report positive changes in the future.

Thanks again,

[greeneagle]

cz,

There are some real serious paid directories that when added together can provide a "HARD RELEVANT POP" if a Site's marketing budget can withstand the launch or relaunch costs. Many are one timers. We are talking a couple grand in total. I'll post them in a new thread.

Have you, or can you, or have you even considered it?

Ken

[cz]

Hi Ken,
I've gotten in about every directory I can think of except DMOZ won't let me in. I have been working off of this list called "strongestlinks.com" and the "best-web-directories.com" I've bought the darn $299 paid Yahoo! link and NONE of them show up as backlinks?

I'll double check since I'm steering away from the rotating banner links that give you hundreds of links - I think they don't mean much as one solid link from a top directory. I'll re-check the list and see where I can spend some of that budget.

I'd love to see some that I don't know about though. Thanks for your help Ken.

I'm thinking my weblog has sent too many links to the site and to product pages, but why bother writing if you can't get something?

I was going to take the "side-navigation" link to my self defense store down and maybe just leave some links sprinkled "sparsely" through the actual posts which aren't "spammed" but they're there.

It might help - lot of archived pages with the same side-nav link piled up on that blog.

[jstout1]

man this whole link thing drives me nuts

[adbart]

Originally Posted by jstout1

man this whole link thing drives me nuts

apt comment :-)

[cz]

yeah I imagine it would - trying to do it right anyway.

apt commment

I see under your sig is links spamming 3 X's to one website and you have a "golf ball forum" so stuffed with links that you must be sick of the work YOU did in your linking schemes - "very appropriate.." - three more IB links!!

Spam somebody elses thread for IBL's, people like you drive me nutz ~ either try and contribute or zip your lip

[cyanide]

I've never been a fan of reciprocal linking, especially when it involves having a separate page, and in some case, people have really gotten out of hand by creating entire directories within their sites.

Here's what I would do...

Example, you have a product called Cell Phone Stun Gun
If someone has written an article on this product or if there is a similar page that talks more about this product, then that's an excellent linking partner.

Put a link to that page from your product page, then contact the other site to reciprocate.

Even if they don't reciprocate, it looks good on you to link to a relevant site/page.