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Dose anyone use traffic exchanges
Posted by HeadStones • 3/20/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Such as royalsurf.com/?rid=13637
and why or why not?
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Quality reciprocal link exchanges in and of themselves are not a bad thing, but most reciprocal link offers are of low quality. If too many of your links are of low quality it may make it harder for your site to rank for relevant queries, and some search engines may look at inbound link and outbound link ratios as well as link quality when determining how natural a site’s link profile is.
If your web pages and the site get a lot of reciprocal (two-way links), especially if they are not related then the search engines will assume that these are solicited links, and search engines do not give much importance to such two-way or reciprocal links, and in some cases may even penalize your site. Consequently, I no longer do link exchanges with sites that are not directly related to my own sites.
Here’s the back story. In order to boost their site’s rankings with the sheer number of inbound links many webmasters had agreed to reciprocal link exchanges. However, because many of these links were not relevant (see: Understanding Backlinks below), they were disregarded in the last Google update. That meant that although the irrelevant inbound link was ignored, the outbound link still got counted and this diluted the relevancy score of many sites. The result was that many sites dropped off the Google map during the last Google update.
The best linking strategy is to get a lot of non-reciprocal links (or one-way links), which are also relevant links to your site from high ranking and popular sites. When your site receives a lot of quality non-reciprocal links, the search engines consider your site and the web pages that receive these inbound quality links as containing highly valuable web content.
Understanding Backlinks
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/understanding-backlinks/
Understanding Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Links
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Also note that if you are blogging for money then PageRank can be a major issue. Once your site has a higher PR (4 or 5) then higher paying writing opportunities become available to you. However, if you write for services like ReviewMe, Text Link Ads, Smorty, and/or PayPerPost, etc. then it’s important to understand that Google doesn’t like paid links, so if you have them and if your site doesn’t indicate them with “nofollow” or, if you’re active on the Internet selling links on your site then your site's PR will suffer.
If you don’t care about Google and PageRank then get involved with services like ReviewMe, Text Link Ads, Smorty, and/or PayPerPost, etc. and sell all the links you want. But if you don’t want to be harmed in Google PR updates then don’t sell links and don't link to sites that do. -
Super excellent post tt.
"Google doesn’t like paid links" Ever notice on google webmaster tools there is a section for reporting paid links?
Google hates paid links because it demeans the whole pagerank system, they have recently starting penalizing sites for paid listings, which is controversial because there is no way to know if a link is paid or not - but, in this case obviously it's paid if your using a service like tt mentioned above.
Heres what I do: I look for folks with similar blogs and ask them to exchange links. This has been successful 2x so far(been doing it a week) Most folks are looking to link up, I personally believe reciprocal links can boost your pagerank if they have similar content (NOT duplicate)
Also, I look for niche sites that have to do with what I blog about - check out webdevvote.com it's a Digg clone that only toots webdev articles.. I have three deep links on their front page which has a pagerank of 3, when googles next dance comes around they will consider this as long as the links are not nofollow, and hell if they are nofollow thats fine too since the links send me most of my traffic.-
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Thank you. If members click through the links I provided above they will find linking strategy advice. Also if they read these two posts they will find even more advice.
SEO Basics for on Page Optimization
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/seo-basics-for-on-page-optimisation/
Getting the perfect link
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/getting-the-perfect-link/
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Thank you guys for your information I find it very helpfull.
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You're welcome
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I use the traffic exchanges for some of my blogs and some of my stuff on WagerWitch - especially when running a promo that is short lived.
In my business those that use the traffic exchanges are often looking for ways to make money - or are looking for traffic for themselves.
I do know that it can hurt your ranking - but for me - while ranking is VERY important in the industry that I support for WagerWitch - it is EVEN MORE important that I get visitors to my site.
However - you have to know what you're doing with those exchanges - and know how much traffic you want to be repetitive non-viewing customers. You also need to know what works in the advertising industry and what doesn't.
It's a lot of hard work.
And personally - for me - it has been rewarding.
But - I'm a different kind of blog - and methinks that a "personal" blog would find it rather demeaning to be listed amongst some of the sites that circulate through the exchanges.
ALSO --- IF YOU DO GOOGLE ADWORDS or any other AD SHOW - they WILL PENALIZE YOU for doing the traffic exchanges.
On the side note - TimeThief has EXCELLENT information that is provided at those links for most every type of blogger.
WagerWitch - Casino Promotions -
Hello,
I have a traffic sharing program at:
matthiaschronicles.tanaya.net/AFTR/
Its simple, free, and no gimmicks. It isn't a credit based system and I publish the members list openly, so there's no questions about the type of content. You can see everything before joining. Feel free to take a look.
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