Comments on: The Case Against Link Exchanges http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/ Website Promotion, Generating Revenue, Website Management Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Chris http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-27471 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:31:48 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-27471 You don’t get any benefit from outlinking. But by all means… link to my sites if you think you do.

]]> By: T Shirt Guy http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-27469 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:05:06 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-27469 I’m wondering how you would of fared if it wasn’t a link exchange. If you are a quality site and you linked to his site (without a link exchange) that was a quality site how much would he benefit from all those inlinks, and how much would you benifit by actually linking TO a quality site.
I’ve been doing alot of “nofollow” expriments and I find that linking to any website with a PR 3 or better gets better results without the nofollow tag. I now only use no follows tags to point to low pr sites

]]> By: Plaveb http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-26199 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:16:13 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-26199 Nice post, usually i do not prefer reciprocal link exchange as i have experienced that Google is not giving more weight to such link promotion. I have done article marketing and got many back links which help a lot. i always prefer to get links from content which must be relevant to my products and services. natural link building will take more time but help a lot with compare to other traditional link building techniques.

nice article dude, thanks for sharing

]]> By: Kyle http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25863 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:06:39 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25863 Kevin, my rankings have always fluctuated but never so dramatically.

Some top rankings I have are bouncing #2/#3 for ‘bee stings’, and #6 on ‘brown recluse spider’ which is a more recent major jump..

]]> By: Tina http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25841 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25841 Hello Chris:

I thank you for bringing this post online. Very useful indeed and I agree to your post above. However, I believe, The one-way-links (The quality relevant) link are far more beneficial (round way).

Anyway..You are to be congratuled for being active again and hoping to see the updated posts and comments in this regard.

Regards – Tina

]]> By: Kevin Boss http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25840 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:07:26 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25840 Did the link exchange effect Kyle’s rankings the same way?

]]> By: Mike Seddon http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25794 Fri, 30 May 2008 09:55:52 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25794 Chris,

Great post.

What’s you view on linking out to sites from your website?

I don’t have a link page either but I do link out to authoritive articles, sites etc.

Since most of us do backward link checks I’ve actually found that on a number of occassions the site owner has contacted me to thank me for the link. Sometimes that leads to a link from them, sometimes it leads to other interesting joint ventures.

Thanks
Mike

]]> By: Chris Bowyer http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25745 Tue, 27 May 2008 18:59:01 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25745 Great post. Just goes to show that so much of SEO is still utter witchcraft. Some core principles have stayed true, but I’m amazed at how much time and effort some people put into certain aspects of it, given how fickle and counterintuitive search results can be at times.

]]> By: leon http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25442 Wed, 14 May 2008 06:10:39 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25442 kyle mentioned that the bottom left nav. near the footers of ebay.com , rent.com looks abit shady … but those are their own website .. thats what i’ve being doing at my own site also ..

do you think google will penalize people for doin it like that ?

]]> By: Kyle http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25433 Tue, 13 May 2008 15:21:11 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2008/05/13/the-case-against-link-exchanges/#comment-25433 I think the most logical feeling I get is that things change. The original link partnership was quite a while ago in Google years.

Whats interesting about link partnerships, is a lot of huge companies are starting to do this. And not just within their own properties.

the ebay/rent.com/and other network is one that stands out the most. And their methods are pretty shady on most sites (with variation). Look at the footers on rent.com, epinions.com, and the bottom left nav of ebay.com.

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