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Reciprocal link means your website links to another website and that website links back to you. Search engines use link popularity to rank websites. Exchanging reciprocal links with other sites will build a great link directory that will motivate visitors to bookmark your website to get access to your link directory.

One of the factors search engines use to determine your relevancy to a search term is the number of websites linking to your website. This is an effective way to increase your search engine rankings.

Three key success factors for a reciprocal linking strategy are:

1. Quality of links should outweigh quantity
2. Link partners must relate to your site content
3. Partners should link to you from pages listing as few links as possible
Linking is what the web is all about. It helps you move from one document to another and from site to site while maintaining your focus on a particular subject. The ideal situation is to have one way links from related sites without you pointing back to them. However, you would have to have a lot of valuable information, tips, tools, articles, resources, etc. in order to motivate people to link to your website. Unfortunately most sites don't fall into this category and reciprocal linking is a requirement.

Step 1 - Get people to want to link to your website. Generating quality inbound links to your website requires a systematic approach and hard work. But the payoff is worth it. To begin with you must have good content on your website. Step one is to analyze the value of your content in relation to competitors. You will also need a page of outbound links on your website that visitors will find valuable.

Step 2 � Research websites that are worth linking to and that will bring relevant traffíc to you. You need to identify the portals, directories, news sites, ezines, blogs, and other information sources specific to your industry. You can let your fingers do the walking across the keyboard or you can purchase one of the many software tools on the market designed to locate relevant sites. They also help collect email addresses and even prepare letters requesting that a site add a link to your site. Without making any recommendations you may want to look into the following tools:

Arelis Reciprocal Link Solution
Zeus Internet Marketing Robot
Linking 101 Linking Management Script
Duncan Carver's Link Management System
Hot Links SQL V2.3
LinkMaster Pro
Links Manager
Links4Trade
PowerLinks.com
Make sure you at least visit the sites these tools generate. However, the best way to build long-term link popularity is to offer good content and features providing real value to your visitors. People will discover your website.

Google is a great help with your research because it ensures your partners are properly indexed. Look for sites closely related to you in terms of theme and keywords. Google's ranking algorithm takes into account each link's importance along with other factors like the proximity of your search keywords in the documents. In other words, it's not just about the number of sites that link to a given page, but also the importance of those sites (measured by the links to each of them). Google has given a name to its ranking algorithm for determining a web page's importance; it's called PageRank(TM) .
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Human based directories like Yahoo and the Open Directory project have a lot of influence over search results. List your site in the correct category with a good description.

Next, make sure you are linked to and from topic specific and niche directory websites. These are sites that provide information that is an exact match for what you provide.

Don't forget partners and vendors from your business. Since you already have a relationship you are more likely to be able to request and receive a link from their websites.
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Step 3 � Implementing your strategy. Like any marketing campaign you need a plan.

Set business benefit objectives for your Linking strategy. Think about what you are trying to achieve and write it down on paper.

Develop a content plan for populating your website with valuable content.

Set linking policies, pages, and linking code you can give to link partners for your site.

Monitor the progress of your linking strategy so that you can see what results have been achieved and adapt or tweak what you are doing to improve results.

Benchmark your site's link popularity against competitors

A Reciprocal Linking Program will require that you manage the following:

1. The name of the site
2. The URL

3. The name and email address of the person who runs the site

4. The date you contact the person who runs the site and the date he or she responds

5. The resulting deal (Some will say yes, some will say no, others will not reply at all, others will want a link back from you, some may want monëy for links, some will be out of town and take weeks to reply, etc.)

6. The status of the deal

7. Verifying that the link is in place

8. Checking the site periodically for the link (Yes, some folks swap links and then pull yours for odd reasons.)

Remember the most important benefit of a link exchange is the traffíc resulting directly from these links. Search engines are highly unpredictable. They keep changing their algorithms every now and then. Your site is on the top 10 results today, but it may not be so tomorrow. Of course, you don't want to exclude search engine optimization but your main concern should be getting traffíc from direct links.

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Aesthetic

Thanks for the useful tip, shokie. Can you explain me one thing, if I ask my competitor whose site PR is higher than mine to put a link to my site and promise him to put a link to his site, I won't benefit from that, right? My PR increases, but his PR increases as well.

MutoGen

Hello hupadupa. You will get profit in any way.

YesBrilliant

Yes, you are going to benefit, but:
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- Your competitor would benefit More than you so it may Not be worth doing that.

- Better would be to get reciprocal links from Partners or Related sites that are Not currently linking to your competitor.

- The higher the PR and Related area and Link Term, the better.

- Better of all is One Way Link, when you have 3 sites and one link to the next but no one links back/reciprocal to any one.

Then you benefit the most, like Trsaso is mentioning.

Thanks for the article Trsaso!

shockie

i think that you would actually benefit more than your competitor (pagerank-wise). you might even bring down their pagerank a tad.

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