Where to find good link trades

CLTMichael · #**1 Where to find good link trades** 01-18-2008, 09:13 PM

I find it amazing that there isn't a program or script that pools real estate websites together for those websites who want to do link exchanges. I’m trying to get some good quality text links and its very time consuming. Half the time the webmasters don’t even e mail you back.

Can anyone suggest a better way or a website to help me get some inbound text links?

webmaster · 01-19-2008, 12:42 AM

The kind of link exchange you are referring to is called FFA (Free for all) and is not a good idea (Frowned upon by all search engines) I think you need to read a lot more about "organic" SEO before you start email people soliciting them for links.

CLTMichael · 01-19-2008, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by webmaster

The kind of link exchange you are referring to is called FFA (Free for all) and is not a good idea (Frowned upon by all search engines) I think you need to read a lot more about "organic" SEO before you start email people soliciting them for links.

IMO there are many ways to obtain organic results. You read all this google penalize you for this and google penalize you for that, but I honestly believe if your link is put on a site from which enhances yours, google won't be penalizing you.

I only want to trade links with sites that add value to mine instead of a creating a link farm. What sets the difference in most cases is inbound links. This is what I need and this is what I’m looking for.

kid disco · 01-19-2008, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by CLTMichael

I find it amazing that there isn't a program or script that pools real estate websites together for those websites who want to do link exchanges.

The end result of that would be a link farm.

RyanRE · 01-19-2008, 11:41 AM

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Half the time the webmasters don’t even e mail you back.

I typically don't respond if the link exchange e-mail is automatically generated. If the individual is sincere, I will usually tell them why it is not a great idea.

CLTMichael · 01-19-2008, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by kid disco

The end result of that would be a link farm.

If you have 100's of links yes, I'm just looking for 30-40 links to get things started.

RyanRE · 01-19-2008, 11:51 AM

Michael - I think it would help if you add a lot more content to your homepage. Webmasters are going to be far less interested in linking to your site until you build a more robust homepage.

CLTMichael · 01-19-2008, 11:58 AM

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Michael - I think it would help if you add a lot more content to your homepage. Webmasters are going to be far less interested in linking to your site until you build a more robust homepage.

Totally agree. My site is junk right now, I'll be adding text and design this week. I always try to get a few links and get the spiders moving in my direction before adding real content.

RyanRE · 01-19-2008, 12:04 PM

Michael - If you are just getting started, I would begin with blogging. REW blogs & AR blogs typically get indexed within a couple of hours (max). Post a blog with some good content and leave a link to your website at the bottom. You should be getting crawled within a couple of days.

CLTMichael · 01-19-2008, 03:10 PM

I found this on another forum. I agree with this 100%

Google webmaster guidelines state that Excessive Reciprocal Links are a link scheme. Some industries like real estate that relied on link exchanges have been slapped hard.

However, reciprocal linking will help you as long as the link exchanges are not excessive and you have a balanced link profile.

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