Link Exchange Liars, I am sick of them......

[TN Todd]

Is anyone else getting sick and tired of the endless barage of link exchange liars that are flooding the internet and my inbox?

A day doesn't go by without someone lieing to me in an attempt to get me to link to their web site(s). It is usually done via some automated software that I would prefer wasn't even visiting my site anyways.

The lies usually start off with something like "I was just visiting your web site". BS! If they had visited my web site they would clearly see I don't have a link page.

The second lie is usually along the lines of "Since our sites have similar or complimentary content we could both benifit from exchanging links". What! Your selling designer handbags and my site is about caving and kayaking. How in the heck do they figure our sites have similar or complimentary content?

Third lie is usually pretty funny. It goes something like "Googles algorythm gives 50% to inbound links".

Then to put some icing on the cake they like to say "We have already added a link to your web site and you can see it here www.ourcrappywebsite.com/linkexchange.html". Sure enough you go to that page and they linked to your site. The problem is the "linkexchange" page isn't linked to anywhere else on their web site. So someone browsing their site is never going to see the link and it is doubtfull Google will either. Not to mention the links are rarely a direct link to your site. Instead it is some automatically generated link that won't help your link popularity one bit.

In my opinion link exchanges, or at least most link exchanges, are are as bad for the internet as spam e-mail. I personally can't wait for Google to lower the importance of inbound links to slow down or stop this crap altogther.

[DMC_34]

In my opinion link exchanges, or at least most link exchanges, are are as bad for the internet as spam e-mail. I personally can't wait for Google to lower the importance of inbound links to slow down or stop this crap altogther.

First of all Links are the internet.

Secondly I agree with you about automated emails, they are furstrating but easily cured by deleting them.

Third, waiting for Google to do away link? Yeah since Google's stance is links support content and that is how they rank sites. If they didnt what would they rank on, content? Let the content on page spam begin all over again. Google will not devalue links if they did they would not be Google anymore.

If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.

Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

DMC

[TN Todd]

First of all Links are the internet.

I disagree with that completly. Search is the power of the internet and the driving force of traffic to 95% of my web sites.

Third, waiting for Google to do away link? Yeah since Google's stance is links support content and that is how they rank sites. If they didnt what would they rank on, content? Let the content on page spam begin all over again.

This is the whole ever loving point. Link exchanges do not promote web sites based on content, but rather on finding other webmasters who are also trying to cheat the system(s) or that are to lazy to produce content.

Google will not devalue links if they did they would not be Google anymore.

In my opinion Google isn't "Goolge" anymore already. Any search will turn up huge amounts of spam and they don't seem to be willing to do anything about it anymore. They seem to be to focused on selling Froogle, news, images and a boat load of other crap.

I used to be very loyal to Google for searches. However, I can find more relevant info on Yahoo or a 1/2 dozen other search engines anymore. I hope they snap out of it, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

[DMC_34]

First of all Links are the internet.

I disagree with that completly. Search is the power of the internet and the driving force of traffic to 95% of my web sites.

SE's only provide 20% of the internet traffic as a whole. If it is your driving force then you should diverse into other areas. Email campaigns. Classifieds, direct advertising, etc

This is the whole ever loving point. Link exchanges do not promote web sites based on content, but rather on finding other webmasters who are also trying to cheat the system(s) or that are to lazy to produce content.

While this statement is accurate to some degree, some sites do not exchange for SEO but rather for traffic and useful information for their visitors. Our visitors on one of my sites may generate more traffic than most get from any SE. As long as it organized and well strucured a directory of links on your site is no different than DMOZ, Yahoo, etc

DMC

[mess487]

I think no different than DMOZ, Yahoo, etc.