Comments on: SEO Mistakes: link exchange emails

By: SEO Pune

SEO Pune — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:08:19 +0000

Hi Matt,
I am not agree with you regarding Reciprocal Link Exchange. People do reciprocal link exchange and if it is related to their websites theme then it would be fine. However buying a automatic link submission software is not advisable.

By: Pitumbo

Pitumbo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:47:42 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks for clarifying Google’s stance on link exchanging. I found this article by googling ‘blogs exchange links’ and your explanation makes a lot of sense. I’m sure we’ve all gotten a lot of those random emails with link requests (mostly from real estate and finance sites in my case). It sounds like reciprocal links are fine as long as they are natural and not for sole purpose of search engine rankings. I appreciate the insight into big G -- thanks again!

By: Link Exchange

Link Exchange — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:53:55 +0000

Questions?

If websites use LinksManager.Com as a linking service and the links are actually coming from linksmanager.com server rather than the actual websites server how does this benefit at all?

The individual linksmanager.com links pages from what I see carry no PR. So how is this beneficial at all? How does this service pass on any weight to your site?

I do understand it is a one way link but how much does it really count?

Seems to me you would need hundreds of links from the linksmanager.com linking service to even count.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:04:52 +0000

Seems a bit of a Catch-22 to me, Azza, writing good content is the easy bit, it’s the ‘letting others know about it’ that is the problem that we’re trying to solve…

By: St.albans webdesign and Seo

St.albans webdesign and Seo — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:06:54 +0000

Real links are earned by posting good content and letting others know about it ….nothing more nothing less ..write good content – let other know you have good content and it could of benefit their readers to see it …

Azza

By: Efren A.

Efren A. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:29:54 +0000

For quality ranking, I totally agree to Matt. As I see it, link exchange without nofollow is playing around the old rules of search engines’ link popularity. If this is not the purpose, placing nofollow would not be an issue. And if the site is really a useful one, others will unilaterally link to it. Link exchange is not necessary but would be beneficial as advertisement or promotion. I think submitting to directories and social bookmarks and joining communities/forums are enough to start promoting your site.

In view of this, I placed rel=”nofollow” to reciprocal links in my site. So, I apologize to those affected.

By: Professional DJ in Los Angeles

Professional DJ in Los Angeles — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:45:36 +0000

Well I’m using a purchased software fom the internet to help me find websites interested in making link exchanges. Cost me $200, but it’s helping me find lots of sites.

By: Agrawat

Agrawat — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:21:34 +0000

Matt can you explain what is the best way to get links if you we requesting to similar website than what’s the wrong it give the website not only back link as well as traffic also i agree that using automated email software for this purpose is wrong but any one do manually do this and mail to related sites than it’s acceptable as my point of view .

By: B First

B First — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:36:59 +0000

Hasn’t anyone else noticed that sites that engage in automated link exchanges NEVER make it into the 1st page?

By: SEO Champion

SEO Champion — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:32:57 +0000

I was doing a lot of reciprocal links but still managed to go on top of SERP. Of course, with a few one way links altogether.