Impact of Reciprocal Links on SEO - Page 2

majali · 04-10-2007, 06:23 AM

Major search engines do not work in the same way
For Google the more backlinks the higher ranking if you do care about anchor text
For others not any backlink

peter_d · 04-12-2007, 08:53 PM

Be a little careful with reciprocal linking.

It's not the reciprocation that's the problem, it's the low value of the pages they're coming from. If you get too many of these, too fast, and have no other quality linking in place, that sets of a red flag with the search engines.

It's better to do all you can to get quality inbound links. Even if it's just a few. Find out the top sites in your niche, and do what you have to to get a link from these sites.

mxracer170 · 04-13-2007, 01:11 AM

How fast is to fast as far as SEs are concerned? Is 25 a day to fast?

Americantruckbuyer · 04-13-2007, 01:43 AM

I think no one can suggest a perfect figure for doing reciprocal linking...and also not approximately...

harmu.com · 04-13-2007, 03:48 AM

links are not bad, but then if get a lot of links in a short period of time, then it is bad! try to avoid quick links,

build links slowly and steadly and everything will be all right!

coolguy27 · 04-13-2007, 04:21 AM

There is great impact of reciprocal links... If you exchange with quality and related links surely your PR will get high... The more related inks the better...

Johan007 · 04-13-2007, 05:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by peter_d

Be a little careful with reciprocal linking.

It's not the reciprocation that's the problem, it's the low value of the pages they're coming from. If you get too many of these, too fast, and have no other quality linking in place, that sets of a red flag with the search engines.

It's better to do all you can to get quality inbound links. Even if it's just a few. Find out the top sites in your niche, and do what you have to to get a link from these sites.

Agreed.

There is no evidence to prove that reciprocal linking is bad as long as you link to quality content, becuase it is more about trust and not reciprocal... Is your links page useful to your audience or a collection of poo?

I love reciprocal linking.

For most commercial site reciprocal linking is not possible and you must look at other ways to promote it and it may then grow in the SERPS naturally (as long as it is a good site to begin with). If your site is not good give up and start again with a better one.

[EDIT: Additionally don't worry about your forums sign linking to poor sites becuase forum signs tend to be ignored for ranking even if there is no rel="nofollow"]