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1. 

   2/20/09

   weblogian

   Link exchange, banner exchange and text link exchange are a great method to expose your site, products etc and make money.
   
   I am a green hat blogger and I have exchanged 512 Banner ads, (468X60 125X125 and 160X6000
   
   Having your banner ads on someone else blog will spice up your blog profile.

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2. 

   3/24/09

   KFS

   hi there,
   
   I think link exchange can promote the traffic of your website/blog.
   The more your link to be listed on any sites, the more traffic of your blog/website you gain!

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3. 

   3/24/09

   timethief

   Reciprocal link exchanges
   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.
   
   Warning
   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.
   
   Back story
   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.
   
   Blogging for money
   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.
   
   Non reciprocal links rock!
   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
   onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/understanding-reciprocal-and-non-recip...
   More information and 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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4. 

   3/24/09

   Ysabetwordsmith

   I find link exchanges here useful for getting comments. Otherwise, most of what I do is find sites that are relevant to mine and link to those. Occasionally I get backlinks that way.

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   1. 

      3/24/09

      timethief

      most of what I do is find sites that are relevant to mine and link to those.
      
      That's exactly the way to go - link to related blogs in good standing with Google.
      
      (1) There's a helpful tool you can use to insure you aren't linking to a bad neighborhood blog. By using the tool you can avoid linking to link farms, gambling sites, drug peddling sites and flesh peddling sites as well as other undesirable sites. www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
      
      (2) In addition if you search the web you will find continuously updated lists of sites that have been banned and blacklisted by Google so you can avoid linking to them.
5. 

   3/24/09

   shabbarsuterwala

   I have a PR3 blog and i write comments on others blogs. What do you call this? Will it affect my google ranking.

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