Link exchanges - time invested.

**Joachim** · 02-24-2005, 03:37 PM

I'm wondering, how much time do you usually spend on link exchanges.

Let's say #hours on a average week ?

Joachim

**davesplace1** · 02-25-2005, 12:30 PM

I spend about 1 hour a week working on link exchanges. I should spend a lot more time getting good quality backlinks to my sites

**James** · 02-25-2005, 07:22 PM

To put it simply: way too little time. I just hunt down people to exchange links with whenever I feel like it.

**ozgression** · 02-25-2005, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by Joachim

I'm wondering, how much time do you usually spend on link exchanges.

Not enough

**Mike** · 02-26-2005, 02:04 AM

It used to be about three or four, but now, very little.

**chromate** · 02-26-2005, 06:03 AM

Very little. I get a lot of people contacting me for exchanges through my sites. But they tend to be rubbish and not worth it like PR2 viagra sites

I should spend more time looking for good link exchanges. It's so hard these days with LocalRank to consider too.

**Joachim** · 02-26-2005, 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by chromate

But they tend to be rubbish and not worth it like ...

Tell me about it, I was stupid enough to sign up with one of those
link exchange websites (hint market) and all I get are requests from those
kind of sites. Pretty useless when it comes to relevance.

**ozgression** · 02-26-2005, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Joachim

Tell me about it, I was stupid enough to sign up with one of those
link exchange websites (hint market) and all I get are requests from those
kind of sites. Pretty useless when it comes to relevance.

Yes, I can't even stop those emails. Do you know how to stop them and unsubscribe/delete my account there?

**Joachim** · 02-26-2005, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by ozgression

Yes, I can't even stop those emails. Do you know how to stop them and unsubscribe/delete my account there?

Good question I was looking for that earlier on, changing my email
address obviously wasn't smart enough.

**topcat** · 02-27-2005, 02:53 AM

When I did my plan at the start of the year, (which I blatently didn't stick to), I scheduled 1 day per week for this to cover all my sites....

.....however, I find it really boring and I'm well lazy!! I haven't done any for a long while

...actually I was thinking of dividing my links up into different pages to reduce the amount of links on each and make me more attractive to exchange with.....Will this reduce the PR does anyone know? I only have PR2 on my links page on Dr. Phil, all the others are really new and have NO PR

Cheers,

Cat

**chromate** · 02-27-2005, 02:13 PM

Yeah, if you create another level that splits into different pages then the PR of those pages will be less than the page linking to them.

**topcat** · 02-28-2005, 03:00 AM

...so the original page wouldn't be affected then? Because effectivley I would be taking some contnt out of that page, (the links) and place it on another page?

**chromate** · 02-28-2005, 06:35 AM

Not really sure what you're getting at? Affected in terms of PR? The site overall will retain more PR as you're placing the links deeper into the site. More of the PR will be bled off and sent back to your other pages before it reaches your links pages.