Reciprocal links are one of the most common and most effective
forms of website promotion. When sites trade links, they both
benefit by sharing some traffic directly and getting noticed
more favourably by the search engines.
Reciprocal Links help you improve search engine ranking and
generate more traffic to your web site. The quality and quantity
of reciprocal links with other web sites allows you to increase
your link popularity. Increasing your link popularity will drive
more traffic to your web site as more visitors will click
through to your web site and better search engine ranking will
result bringing more targeted traffic. With the increasing
competition, getting a good ranking in the search engines is
important. If you really want a high rank position with the
search engines and more traffic to your web site, you need to
work out a focused linking strategy to establish reciprocal
links with other web sites. I know that exchanging links is not
simple and take time, but is the best time investment you will
ever do.
The basic concept is simple - you link my site, I’ll link yours
and we’ll both get an increase in traffic. I have exchanged many
links in my web-based career.
Here are 10 tips from my experience …
1) Find the right site to do a reciprocal link exchange with.
Define the kinds of sites with which you want to trade links.
These sites are normally in your website’s category of interest,
or sites that you feel your visitors might find interesting.
2) If you are at the beginning of promoting your site and want
to see results soon, exchange links with popular and quality web
sites. This doesn’t mean that popular web sites will accept
that, but you have to try. Don’t hesitate. Lots of popular web
sites that are in another category of interest, maybe accept
exchange link with you. It’s your decision …
3) When you contact the webmaster of the other site, you should
be kind. Tell him that you run a site that has a similar topic
and describe your site a bit. Say that you like his site and
have included a link to it in your site (give him the address of
the page where the link is), then ask him to return the favour
by linking to your site. If you never get a reply or your
proposal gets rejected, just forget it and find another site.
4) Never be disappointed! There are a lot of webmasters who will
exchange links with you.
5) Be patient! With hundreds of thousands of sites out there, it
takes time and efforts to find and choose web sites for
reciprocal links. Keep working.
6) If another webmaster asks you to exchange link, give him an
answer. If you deny, explain why. If you like the content of
that web site then add the link. Every link is useful.
7) Exchange as many links as you can. Don’t be afraid to swap
links with competitor websites. This is not going to hurt your
business. World wide web is a huge area. Internet has space for
everyone.
Don’t remove your link without contacting the webmaster of
the other site first. Some webmasters agree to exchange
reciprocal links, add your link on their site and after a few
days/weeks they remove it without noticing you. You should check
the site of your partner every now to see if he’s keeping his
part of the deal. If he is not, contact the guy and kindly ask
him to explain why your link has disappeared. If you don’t get a
satisfactory explanation, remove the link to his site from your
site and find another partner.
9) Prefer text links rather than graphics as this would be more
search engine friendly. If you want to make your site more
impressive and satisfy your partner, add a graphic link too, but
don’t overdo it.
10) Your reciprocal link request is more likely to be taken
seriously if you have your own domain! Some webmasters may not
even wish to trade reciprocal links with websites with URLs
based on other providers’ domains, fearing the sites are not
high quality. If you are serious about your website, consider
getting your own domain. It costs some money, but the cash spent
is well worth it when you realize how much better your website
will be perceived in the eyes of your visitors.
Never forget … The traffic that reciprocal links generate is
FREE!!!
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