Hey Cecil...Nobody wants turtle links anyway.

Hi everone

Here is the first strategy question:

If I excange links and my link is placed on a page that is not ranked or perhaps not indexed , is it any benefit to link to that page?

Seems like when my links page was crawled the, page where my link is would be found.

If this would be a benefit, would it matter if I linked to the page where my link was, from the same links page that I link to the link partner's homepage?

Love the forum and everyones help

Im a realtor learning SEO and have been helped a HUGE amount by Morgan and everone here.

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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,

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can you please elaborate?

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

Philip,
This question is asked often and certainly deserves an answer.

My feeling is this, if a brand new site emails me and say's I just built my links directory its not in Google yet but I have linked with a direct html text link from my homepage, and the site is relevant I link to it no problem. The reason why is because I know the link I give that site will get both the index page and the links page I am on spidered. So yes you get a benefit

I get concerned however when someone sends me a link request with a PR 6 on their index, and a 4 month old links page with no PR and no cache in google. Likely there is something going on here and I would not link in this situation without further explanation.

You will find a lot of links programs like links manager and Zues get their pages dropped out of the SE's all the time, so I try not to link with any automated linking program

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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

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Our testing shows that adding 100 outgoing links which are not reciprocated, and using your own anchor text, is brill SEO
It makes you a "directory"

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.

brill???? Does that mean good heh

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