I had sent out a request for over 500 relevant exchages on one site. Only about a dozen have ansered back after a week.
Seems inefficient????
2006-09-18 13:20:23 · 6 answers · asked by david c 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
There are no link exchange sites that work.
That is because exchanging links does not work anymore.
Read these two articles carefully:
http://www.seo-blog.com/reciprocal-links.php
http://www.seo-blog.com/reciprocal-links-update.php
2006-09-18 17:47:13 · answer #1 · answered by memetrader 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've found 45 different link exchange services, but the 2 that I think work the best are linkalizer.com and http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/. I don't believe link exchanges are dead. Just make sure that the sites you exchange links with are relevant to your site. If you have an automotive site, for example, you should only link to quality automotive sites. When I say quality, I don't mean high page rank, but an actual value to your web site visitors who are looking for something else. Google might be ignoring reciprocal links and (maybe) even penalizing your site if you are listed on a bunch of link farms or un-related sites. But there is still a good percentage of search querries which don't go through Google. Most link exchange services require that you put their code on your site, but I don't recommend it. That gives them the option of deciding on who you link with... don't just link with anyone. Take a look around their site first. Another thing you can to to make sure your link exchange gives you positive results is to add content to the links pages like articles or even just a paragraph about the category.
As far as the 500 link exchange requests...
If they don't have a link exchange program, they are not going to bother answering you. Also, people deny link exchanges for many reasons, but I would think they would at least get back to you. It depends on what you are marketing for also. Automotive sites are pretty easy to find link exchange partners as are mortgage and real estate. If you are marketing for an internet marketing site... that's tough. It took us 2 years to get a top 10 listing on Google for 'internet marketing' (for marketingtitan.com). Adult sites are terrible to try to market for. So it depends on your site's theme also.
Hope this helps...
Tim
2006-09-25 09:40:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Odds are that those link exchange requests were not that relevant if you sent out over 500 of them. And if you got zero response it probably was another indication of the irrelevancy.
Is your content citation worthy? Nothing is really free...how much do you value your time at? Start approaching link building from that angle maybe.
2006-09-23 09:58:07 · answer #3 · answered by aaron w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be good for you to post your site url so people can see what type of site it is. Many people will do a link exchange if the sites are compatible and not spammy.
2016-03-27 08:14:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google now actually penalizes link exchange programs. Best would be participate in newsgroups, forums, blogs. They carry a lot of weightage. Infact any sort of reciprocal links would go against you.
Navin
http://navinsoni.seo.iitm.ac.in
2006-09-24 08:11:03 · answer #5 · answered by Navin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Link exchanges are DEAD. Google knows this is an arrangement. You need to get one way links.
2006-09-19 02:38:32 · answer #6 · answered by linkme2mrseo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋