link exchange program

[ocbon]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of a good Link Exchange Program (all automated; partially automated; whatever) other than Links Manager?

Thanks
Bonnie

[pinbrook]

I really don't recommend using Links Programs. It may be hard work finding your own links but its better in the long run.

Automated Link Exchange...no way!

[ocbon]

link exchange program

Hi Joe

Thanks for the reply. How do you:
---Place links on your site (manually)
---How do you keep your site updated with dead links

Maybe I didn't make my question clear enough. I have a site where I manually place my links, however, I have no way of checking for dead links or making sure my links have bee placed - efficiently, other than search each individual site?

Any suggestions, Welcome!
Thanks
Bonnie

[pinbrook]

I place very few outgoing links on my sites. Outgoing links cause leakage.

What you need are incoming links.

Links really have to be managed manually for them to be effective.

If you do add links you can use brochure fragments.

[Mike Hughes]

I'd disagree with Jo on this.

Outgoing links do cause a leakage of pagerank but it's minimal and shouldn't bother you. A proposal to exchange links is far more powerful than trying to get one way links.

This is a bit of a moot point now, as google ranks sites higher based on both incoming and outgoing links. If you really want to do well in google you have to link out to other imortant sites.

For more details, anyone interested can do some reading at webmasterworld.

Mike

[OldWelshGuy]

I agree with OS in this, I would rather see links coming in AND going out, find the top authorities in your field and link to them. If your a solicitor then link to the law society. If you into ecommerce, (which I guess just about everyone on here is then link to HMcustoms & excise, link ot the DTI, link to authority sites that are relevant to your page content. Incoming links are great, but the text within those links is greater.

Webmaster world is good, as is Search engine watch, and also Highrankings forum (I am a mod there so think it is only fiar I netion that). There is a lot of rubbish out there about SEO. links are very powerful, but they need to be handled properly. Avoid link farms like the plague for fear of being banned, avoid hidden links even more for fear of being banned again. (ask any ex traffic power client).

Don't worry about page rank lekage, worry more about the murmerings Google are making at the various conferences about'Page Rank trapping' and what they intend to do about it. Matt Cutts mentioned this at the SES in London last month, and within a couple of weeks, traffic power and many of their clients got binned by Google, removed from the index, zero traffic.

WHo links to you can not harm you, but who YOU link TO definitely can.