[Bruen]

Hi all,


Does google prefer reciprocal link building ? I had studied that reciprocal link building is dead it is no more worthy. Is this true?


Thanks in Advance.

[T2DMan]

Reciprocal linking is still alive. Its just that so many recip links are of little value - low Google PR, too many links on the pages....

Then there is the concept of theming. Very uncertain as to the actual effect of this, but its always better if the page includes the words of the link text several more times on the page, and even better if the page is SEO'ed specifically for the text linked phrase.

If you have a well SEO'ed page, good PR, regularly cached by Google... then the link will have great value back to you.

However, as with all things, there are provisios. Best if a link is not reciprocated. There has been talk of the links being devalued, but little evidence seen of this taking place.

[Gracia]

Reciprocal linking as the only SEO method if it is not yet dead I believe it soon will be.

There are alot of sites abusing link exchange in order to get a higher than everybody else ranting. This must be causing alot of problems and it is certainly not what any of the search engines want to list first in their listings.

However, exchanging links is how new websites get discovered, these new websites are what the crawlers are looking for, to completely ignore link exchanges would exclude placing those new sites in the index! So I don't believe it will ever be bad to exchange links.

Some of the methods used by some sites to exchange links is 1> the page must have a PR3 or better and they will link to any site regardless of the content. 2> there is no theme that if the all of the links are looked at (followed) basicly all you get is a dictionary or noise (link spam).

I would tend to agree that if the site only has link exchanges in most cases the site should only raise to maybe a PR3 or 4. And, if the all link exchanges are to PR3+ pages likely they are creating those exchanges only for the search engine rating ... some of those sites may have appeared on the radar.

I exchange links to new sites and older sites, I look at content of the page and make sure they are not playing any games with the exchange of links. If the content matches the theme of my page I exchange links -- I exchange links to far more lower ranked sites than high ones and if anything my traffic is slightly higher after this update.

I think the future is heading toward trusted links and not bulk links (page rank is no longer an indication of trust), A page that only links to sites that link back from pr3+ pages is not very trust worthy.

So "all you need to do to rank well is exchange links - look for high rated pages to improve your rating" is a dead concept -- but exchanging links to sites that are related is not.

[thinkseo123]

Originally Posted by Gracia

I think the future is heading toward trusted links and not bulk links (page rank is no longer an indication of trust), A page that only links to sites that link back from pr3+ pages is not very trust worthy.

So "all you need to do to rank well is exchange links - look for high rated pages to improve your rating" is a dead concept -- but exchanging links to sites that are related is not.

I see the point. I believe there is a revolution in pursuance of that goal right now. People has come to realize that getting customers instead of high PR should be their aim.

[marketraise int]

Reciprocal linking is very much there and alive and it is through reciprocal linking or trackback links that one enhances the pagerank of their website.

[she2max]

reciprocal linking is still alive.problem is in unnatural reciprocal linking, problem is in useless links or resource page with or without relevant links.