trade Reciprocal links bad for PR

[camera mobiles]

Reciprocal links are of no use if you intend to increase your page rank. Google spiders will interpret this as one vote in and one vote out. Place your one way links at my site for free.
No back link needed.

www.one-way-links

 

[shockie]

is your free bravehost site going to turn into a link farm, and what steps are you taking to ensure that it doesn't?

 

[Lord]

ehm, yeah, it's a bravehost site, i don't think that will help pr too well

 

[Damion]

Google spiders will interpret this as one vote in and one vote out.

Are you implying that one link would cancel out the other link in terms of link value?
Because that's not true.

When every single outgoing link on your site is reciprocated by the same site you're linking to then it may raise some red flags because that's unnatural.

If you keep the ratio natural then you can benefit from reciprocal links.

 

[thesearcher]

Damion,

What do you mean by keeping your ratio natural.

I am not an expert but would like to understand as I am engaged to increase traffic to my site through link exchange, but I don't want to bring down the quality of the PR we have reached and the overall rankings.

Thanks

 

[Damion]

Example:

In total you have 100 incoming links.

80 links of those 100 are reciprocated by you, someone links to your site and promptly you link back to them or vice versa.

Google recognizes this as reciprocal linking and would not count those links as much as it could have if the ratio - the amount of reciprocal links versus natural incoming links was smaller.

Google would recognize artificial votes for your site/page as that is what they are, artificial, they did not come naturally and are not counted as genuine votes, each incoming link is a vote for your page.

Don't focus to much on reciprocal linking and only reciprocate a link if you feel it ads value to your visitor.
Would you be tempted to link back if you didn't get the link in the first place?

If not then it wouldn't be a good idea to link to site/page.

 

[thesearcher]

Many Thanks

This makes sense now!
Will follow the advise.

I wonder how to get links without being asked for a link back...

 

[Damion]

Search Google for "Link Bait"

Depending on your niche it could be difficult in getting quality backlinks and sometimes it's much easier.

 

[thesearcher]

Thank you for your feedback.

mostly appreciated