Link Exchange on Blogroll

[scottiegrace]

Hello Everyone!

I have a newer blog that I have built over 600 links to in the last month and 1/2 and I am wondering if anyone would be interested in doing a link exchange on their blogrolls with me. Thanks in advance!

[jamesww]

Scottie,

Link exchanges are very risky and on this forum in the past a number of agents have had penalties assessed. I think it is likely not the place to make such a request.

[Smuck]

Link exchanges are very risky and on this forum in the past a number of agents have had penalties assessed. I think it is likely not the place to make such a request.

Exactly!

[NancyDennisAssociates]

600??? Are they on relevant sites?

[scottiegrace]

I just see some competitors that have done it with other Real Estate blogs and they have a ton of backlinks to their sites because of it. My current links are on blogs, webmaster forums, directories, articles, etc. If this is not the place to request this then I am sorry I asked. Cheers!

[jamesww]

No problem! You didn't know.

[scottiegrace]

Thanks James! To further this discussion I want to draw your attention to "The Canadian Real Estate Alliance" that all link to each other and therefore have a distinct advantage over myself. I just started my blog about 2 months ago....... They don't seem to be penalized at all!

http:// montrealrealestateblog. com/links-2/ as an example but there are quite a few of these sites linked up together from each major center.

Any thoughts on how I should approach this? Thanks in advance!

[SEO Nick]

Hey Scottie,

We actually don't allow link exchanges on the forum, due to the negative repercussions they cause.

If you're wondering why there are still a bunch of people out there using this tactic, check out this thread. Morgan gave a pretty good explanation of the reason for this:

http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/thread35251.html

[scottiegrace]

Thanks for that Nick. I see it would be better to stay safe then to risk short term gain and get penalized in the long-term. I'm just going through a learning curve with blogging! Thanks again!

[SEO Nick]

My pleasure