Question on article linking with sites

[jessiesc]

I've been running this by several people lately and wanted to get some additional input:

Since I no longer engage in pure link exchange, I'm considering offering the following:

• Article Exchange - A direct link from within an article on one of our pages to a relative article on another site and mutual exchange of these article links i.e. a direct quote from within another sites article.
• Full Article Exchange - A complete and unique article with links located on another website on a unique page for that article.
• Content Exchange - Inline content fragment of a contributing article on our site and a mutual exchange of content of this type as well. i.e. an extracted paragraph from an article with a link to the actual article

What I'm attempting to do is provide additional content and authoritative links without engaging in actual link exchanges.

My concern is this: Even when articles are exchanged between sites, there is still a level of link exchange occuring. Is this type of exchange acceptable and not considered actual link exchange?

Comments or suggestions?

[kid disco]

"Pure link exchange" - Site A links to site B, if site B links to site A.

"Article exchange" - Site A links to site B, if site B links to site A.

[36towns]

this is still called link exchange, but in my opinion its a lot better since the links are within the content.

[John Allen]

I think modeation is the key word here. How many of these types of "exchanges" are you planning to do? Google made it known that "excessive" link exchanges are a violation of its TOS.

I would make sure that:
1. The content was original and relevant to your clients/prospects.
2. Only one link per article.

[jessiesc]

Thanks for the responses

I've begun implementing this and we're allowing 1 site link within each article.

So far so good