Reciprocal links and banner exchange...

anwebservices Level X⁵

September 18, 2016, 7:31 pm

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Back in 2000 and years after, when i started building my own websites, Google was a little unknown baby and most of us, webmasters, were getting a lot of traffic from website directories, reciprocal link exchanges and banner exchanges.
Back then, it was fun and it was a good source of webtraffic but also nice way of connecting to other webmasters while exchanging such things.

Nowadays, it doesn't seems to be popular any more, while i think it still SHOULD BE, because of power this things can bring to anyone involved in such exchanges...

Do you still use some of these, or would you be interested to become reciprocal member of such exchange again?

Not just for sake of getting authority or backlink, but also to have some fun again and some organic web-traffic too...

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TommyCarey

Ohhh man. Back in the day when reciprocal links worked for more than just direct traffic I was trying to get my links on all types of websites. I would be very interested in doing a link exchange if I wasn't worried that my websites would get marked as a blog network and then I get knocked in the rankings. It obviously wouldn't be a blog network, but you can never be too safe when it comes to an automated system evaluating and documenting everything that has to do with a website, including it's external and internal links.

You might also get stuck in a link wheel and we all know how "great" those are lol. If one website gets hit with a penalty and it's in a link wheel, you'll most likely get hit with the same penalty since you're in the link wheel. Back in the day this type of linking was amazing for rankings and everyone was doing it. But then there were a select few who were really trying to game the system and built link wheels for everything and ranked for whatever they wanted. After Google started to battle these types of links it hurt the people who were genuinely linking to various niche related websites Reciprocal links and banner exchange...

I don't think I was ever hit with one of these penalties, but I was new back then and wouldn't have been able to figure it out even if I was lol

Now a days I stick with linking to external websites by using nofollow hyperlinks and only adding them to my subpages. This way I can avoid all the penalties but still link to pages I like

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anwebservices

Yeah, that's true that Google destroyed this fun to rule whole internet and set up their own game after they were marking so many websites for "link farming" and penalize them. Sad. I totaly forgot about that part while i was writing this discussions

as i was thinking of old days fun.
Well it still could be done trough javascripts where only traffic could count

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Lynne

I think it would be a great idea to do some link exchanges with other websites in your niche. In fact there are a few people in the parenting niche that I am on friendly terms with that I was thinking of contacting and asking to do some promotions with.

We already often share each others new content socially and often when there is something important that they we are trying to push we will help each other out.

I like being friendly with people in my niche and working as a team where we can. I do think that there is more than enough business to go around and if we help each other where we can it can only benefit us all.

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Cristian

How would you do these exchanges? In the past we put each other homepage link in our blog roll so we will gain side wide backlinks.

Nowadays I don't recommend implementing this method. But I do recommend you mention niche related bloggers in your articles and link them in the actual content of the article. Try choosing articles they've written that are similar to your subject and adds an extra bit of user experience because of the cumulated information you both provide. Doing this kind of external linking you will both benefit. And of course, if you link somebody, make sure you contact them and let them know, they'll surely return the favor at one point.

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Lynne

I am going to do a review for each of the mommies I am in contact with and then they will put a banner up on their websites for me

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Seoclerks

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