It’s widely known in SEO that gaming links is dangerous, and too many questionable references can cause Google to give you the boot. Still, the power of the link is there, and this leads many SEOs into a reciprocal link network (link to me and I’ll link to you). The question remains though: how many is too many?
Reciprocal Linking vs. Triangular Linking
When emails like this come from amateurs it’s one thing, but when they come from so-called SEO professionals…
Benefits of Reciprocal Favoriting
Blogging experts and social media marketing experts frequently write about how important it is to build up a network of friends on social bookmarking sites, and even encourage careful gaming of the system by email and instant messenger.
That is gaming the system purely for their own benefit.
They might also frequently suggest you Digg their content, or add them to your bookmarks, or we could also add to that list "Add Me To Your Technorati Favorites", or "Subscribe to my feed".
MSN Live Banning Reciprocal Link Exchange Spam
The headline above may be a bit premature as the claimed email received from MSN search team by a SearchEngineWatch forums member has not been acknowledged as coming from Microsoft. A quote:
Are Reciprocal Links Dead?
If the current indications are correct we may be looking at the end of reciprocal linking as a method of building rank and link popularity, at least as far as Google is concerned.
Anatomy Of A Reciprocal Linking Campaign
Reciprocal linking means forming partnerships with other sites who place a link from their Web pages to yours. You then give them a similar link in return.
HOW To Increase Your Traffic Using Reciprocal Links
Could you use an extra 500,000+ visitors to your site each year?
Non-Reciprocal Link Building For Higher Search Engine Positioning
It’s no SEO secret that inbound links to your site are an important part of any complete search engine positioning strategy.
How to Manage Your Reciprocal Links Directory
Reciprocal linking is an inevitable part of the life of any webmaster. Incoming links are valuable because the rankings in Google depend in large part on the amount and quality of these links, and because incoming links provide a steady stream of traffic.
Finding and Managing Quality Reciprocal Links
All of us want to increase traffic to our web sites. It helps our search engine rankings, and is a very cost-effective way to provide us with potential new customers.