Reciprocal Linking will get you BANNED ???

[xiaomaster]

Hi,
I just read an article here:
http://esotericlabs.com/search-engin...you-banned.htm
It is said that "Reciprocal Linking will get you BANNED". Is this true?

[Cricket]

This is what Matt Cutt's of Google has to say about it.

Reciprocal links by themselves aren’t automatically bad, but we’ve communicated before that there is such a thing as excessive reciprocal linking. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-hell/

[xiaomaster]

Well then, how we know "excessive reciprocal linking" or "normal reciprocal linking" ?

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by xiaomaster

Well then, how we know "excessive reciprocal linking" or "normal reciprocal linking" ?

If you have many linkexchange sites.... rather than inbound links. Instead build more IBLs than reciprocal links...

Google frowned on "excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.").

Read this link .

[poksa]

Originally Posted by coolguy27

If you have many linkexchange sites.... rather than inbound links. Instead build more IBLs than reciprocal links...

Google frowned on "excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.").

Read this link .

Nice Article Coolguy!, but based on my own experience i do reciprocal links a lot as long as the site is relevant with my site...

Remember don't rely on those article post, as long you proved it first...

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by poksa

Nice Article Coolguy!, but based on my own experience i do reciprocal links a lot as long as the site is relevant with my site...

Remember don't rely on those article post, as long you proved it first...

That is not article post, that is the new Google Linking scheme..... came from Google itself...

[poksa]

Originally Posted by coolguy27

That is not article post, that is the new Google Linking scheme..... came from Google itself...

yeah! that article is came from google, But in SEO you have to proved it first before you can rely, even matt cuts he release a lot of articles on his Blog right,

like before he release that Supplemental Results are gone right, but now a days a lot of webmasters think and find a proven if Supplemental really gone...

Bro! nice find on that article, But yo have a poor mind to think, Because if someone said to you to jump on the building, i think you will jump.

[temyong]

Originally Posted by coolguy27

That is not article post, that is the new Google Linking scheme..... came from Google itself...

Nice article coolguy thanks for the info.

and I like this part.

The best way to get other sites to create relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can quickly gain popularity in the Internet community. The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it. Before making any single decision, you should ask yourself the question: Is this going to be beneficial for my page’s visitors?

This one is really cool for me because still content is also the best way.

[Cricket]

I would certainly make sure that reciprocal links were not my primary source of incoming links.

[Trapped]

Originally Posted by Cricket

I would certainly make sure that reciprocal links were not my primary source of incoming links.

Well said, if you have 100 backlinks and 90 of them are from reciprocal linking, thats excessive.

[bond007]

It will be interesting how they will enforce that since I saw a lot of high PR websites with reciprocal links (for example putting a lot of links in the footer of the page).

[T0d]

A lot of Buddy Icon sites have 10-15 reciprocal links, so do other arcade sites, etc, and they are doing fine.

I don't think you should rely on them only or have 20+!!

[TommyM]

Note that most of the top bloggers are linking to good stories and articles of other bloggers and those link back to their stories so there are tons of reciprocal links and it doesn't seem to hurt them.

I think the bigger problem are links from links pages (resources, whatever...) which are there just to improve PR.

[bogs]

i just read google webmaster help center: Link Schemes

[zagu060807]

nice article, but some websites forces you to have reciprocal links with them, or you will pay a high price.

[qbert_seo]

Tightly nit links are key here. One way links are typically more valuable (all else equal), but reciprocal links from highly relevant websites can also add value to a campaign. Make certain to mix it up though and focus on more than one type of link.

[nigelaxis]

Relevancy is the key. It would be 'natural' for sites of a similar nature to link to each other.

It would be less likely that you would be swapping links with sites that are off topic.

I think the answer is that as long as most of your reciprocals are from similar sites, and you have avoid link farms, then you should be okay.

[marthrock]

What we are forgetting here is that, you have to create a valid reason for someone to want to link to you in the first place. It's the reason why I want to link to someone else. Because they bring something to my site that I think may benefit my users. It's part of the Algo-relevency

Sometimes I think we spend so much time trying to outwit, outsmart, and outthink the SE's that we forget about the user and what might benefit them. If we do that, do it right, then the links or the opportunity to link should happen rather naturally...

[MrCat]

IMO, reciprocal linking gets negative effect on your SEO if you exchange links with "bad" sites ( like link farms, banned sites, etc). But in general, reciprocal links (although less weighed by SE's) help in your PR

[lifeofegypt]

In the late 1990's and early 2000's, reciprical links were the rage. If you didn't have hundreds or even thousands of them, you were dead in the water. Thank god google helped to level the playing field.