What do you look for when you exchange links?

[OneMoreBite]

Originally Posted by rgi625

...is there a optimal number of sites that you should link to?

As many as you possibly can, and then add more. ;-)

I'm wondering if what you were asking was about page optimization, as in, how many links should be on one web page? If that was the intent of your question, this would make a good separate thread because I'm sure others have that question, so you might want to post your query as a new thread to get more replies.

Kathryn

[dougadam]

Originally Posted by info202

1.I look for sites that I feel are relevant to mine.. I link to competitive site

The market is huge, so I wouldn’t worry about the competition.

[dougadam]

Originally Posted by info202

1.I look for sites that I feel are relevant to mine.. I link to competitive sites, as long as they are not in my own geographical area

The market is huge, so I wouldn’t worry about the competition.

[kgun]

http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/pub...-farm-spam.pdf

[OneMoreBite]

Originally Posted by kgun

http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/pub...-farm-spam.pdf

Quite extensive paper on identifying link farm pages. Has me scratching my head though. Why go to that trouble? You can tell a link farm page in an instant by paying the url a visit ;-)

I never link to sites that aren't related; what would be the point? If everyone made an effort to create good, useful sites and pointed to other sites in the same vein, we'd have a much better experience online.

Kathryn

[kgun]

1. Perhaps for the methematically inclined.
2. Relevance beyond the subject.
3. A lot of good references.

There is no lack of information on the internet, the problem is to find relevant information of good quality.

[maxer]

1. I would normaly look for relevancy,
2. Good well presented design and content(first impressions count).
3. A PR of 3 or higher.

[mavahntooth]

if their link page has a PR
if it is not difficult to navigate links from homepage 2-3 clicks.
if the page is relevant tou your website.

[shameshame]

I just emphasize on
1) Category
2) No. Of Links On Link Back Page
3) PR of link Back Page

[internet-marketing-cr]

This is a great Forum, I am glad I found this resource, I am new to the forum, have a couple questions:

- Is link exchange extinguishing as a link building strategy? I`ve heard SE detect those links and don`t give them that much value as they used to.

- Is it worth it to spend time doing it?

Thanks,

Internet-Marketing-cr

[mavahntooth]

Originally Posted by internet-marketing-cr

This is a great Forum, I am glad I found this resource, I am new to the forum, have a couple questions:

- Is link exchange extinguishing as a link building strategy? I`ve heard SE detect those links and don`t give them that much value as they used to.

- Is it worth it to spend time doing it?

Thanks,

Internet-Marketing-cr

imo yes! that help you rank well in search engine. it is a big factor. if you are site is popular (base on votes by and refered by other sites) SE will look your website more important than other website. =)

[internet-marketing-cr]

Thank you for your comment on the Link Exchange subject, I really appreciate it.

Internet Marketing Cr.

[chatterfox]

Hi to all. I’m just new here. Anyway, I would just like to share my strategy on exchanging links here. Btw, I'm still a budding marketer, so what I do are literally basics. However, I still find them so useful. I have also been monitoring my site's traffic and I think that link exchanges played the most part of the growing number of visitors in my site. My tactics in choosing a site for link exchange are to know the site’s credibility in terms of the quality links pointing to the sites and I prefer sites that have guidelines for link exchanges. Also, the content is very important in choosing which sites you would want to exchange link with.

[bludlphn21]

Hi,
Im kinda new at all this and i was just wondering is someone could explain to me how to link exchange. I have a stoer and i would like to get some more traffic
thank

[SeoSem]

Originally Posted by janeth

Hi all this is my question when you are going to exchange links with someone what to do look for.

What do you look for when you exchange links?

My answer to this question is simple.

I use this text on some of my sites.

Only true reciprocal linking is allowed. You will not be able to request a
link for one domain, yet offer a link back to us from another domain.

Your site description has to be more than 5-6 words like e.g. "The best Gold
news and resource sites."

We simply don't list such sites. You have to know the first rule of SEO if
you want to be listed here.

NOTE! Your description is the recommendations you put on every site that
point to your site.

It's your ad and if your ad sucks, your prospect will think your site sucks
too and no one with IQ above freezing point will visit your site from such ad.

Matter of fact, it is your "Business Card" which you hand over to everyone
interested to do business with you, and if your card brings nothing to this
person, this person will not do business with you... never...

Who will follow description that says, "I am the Best and Greatest site online"?

This has lower the link exchange requests from bad sites.

Feel free to use it on your sites.

[syaworsky123]

Just starting to build my own site. There is some great info here. Thank.

[maxk]

I know links boost your site, but what is better recipical links from relevant sites or Directory links?

Thanks for your input!

[solarfall]

Great tips here in this topic.

Real nice reading. Getting me up to speed. great.

[webmasterlabor.com]

Originally Posted by janeth

TIPS RE LINK EXCHANGE

Good tips. However, I tend to focus more on the CATEGORY of sites I plan to swap links with. I weed out DIRECT COMPETITORS and just focus on SIMILAR but non-competing sites.

Another good strategy is try to swap links with "objective" sites that are non-profits or resource sites.

[ultranet]

This is a good thing that need to learn from here.
Since I am new here, I like to know more about back links and reciprocal links.

But I think this is not the right forum for this topic I guess, and to look that topic and check. Thanks anyways..

[jbsmith]

Outside of actively seeking links, I've been quite successful in achieving incoming links using a combination of...

1. Article writing and
2. Blog cross-linking

Trick is to control submission of your content to the most relevant publishers increasing liklihood of them being posted (along with keyword rich link) as well as strong relevancy in terms of search engine placement.

Jeff

[davecskul]

I usually do not engage in link trading or exchanges. I distribute quality content around the web to article directories, ezines, blogs, forums, etc,. and let people link to my site naturally. It works for me and no emails or harsh scoldings from web masters and the like.

[jesterx]

i think one of the coolest ways for this to work is to make sure whoever you are linking to has a good PR ranking. Thats one key point amonst many but, in the long run it will bump you up in the search engine playment.