New Category: Link Exchange STRATEGY

[Cecil]

Going to have to dissagree with you here Rich, there is no way linking out to a relevant site(Whether recieving a reciprocal link or not) will ever have a negative effect on your rankings, that is just not true. What is true is that you will not "gain" anything until the page they link from is indexed

Just a case study here. I linked to a friend's site that was truly unrelated to my own a long time ago. It was a favor and I figured wouldn't be a big deal. Guess what! Months later, I am ranked #1 for the random search term of his unrelated search site + my search term. Ok, NOW guess what! Yep...turns out I'm getting about 4% of my traffic on this random combination of terms. Can't say if that's really helping my site in terms of its mission but it certainly helps with regards to metrics like Alexa. It was a one way outbound link and it has actually ADDED to my traffic volume. I'm not complaining.

[San Diego Real Estate]

Hi philipwinburn,

I'll take your questions in order...

1. swapping links when you are placing the other persons link on one of your pages that is indexed and they are placing your link on a page that is not indexed will likely negatively impact your own rankings while helping theirs...don't do it

2. Once you find suitable link exchanges... you need to design the code for your link to point to the page, and with the anchor text, for the search term you are seeking to improve rankings for on the page your pointing your link to...(make sense )

Hope that helps,

You'll find a wealth of shared knowledge here at REW

can you please elaborate?

[VegasMack]

It appears as though many of you believe that one way linking helps and not hurts your rankings. And as I am relatively new to SEO I must take the word of those more experienced than myself.

That being said, I am willing to assist all those that truly believe in achieving higher rankings by allowing them to give me one way links to all of my sites.

Feel free to PM me for a list.

Thanks,

~VegasMack

[Las Vegas Real Estate]

Smooth, Mack....very smooth!