Comments on: Reciprocal Linking : SEO’s Longstanding Contradiction

By: Cristian

Cristian — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:19:18 +0000

If only reciprocal links you’ll use for building a ranking you should make other SEO plans. Don’t want to be critique, but there’s nothing natural launching a site with reciprocal links.
Try focusing on other link building alternatives – blog commenting, submission directories, article directories – and the supplement your link portfolio with some reciprocation.

Hope you’ll find the right combination

By: Poodle Breeders

Poodle Breeders — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:38:42 +0000

Very informative article. I am thinking of launching a poodle site with reciprocal links but I am not sure how to go about it. The only problem is that Matt did not say if directory reciprocal link fall into the excessive category.

Thanks

By: Link building Services

Link building Services — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:41:52 +0000

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By: steave

steave — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:41:04 +0000

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By: Bill Sebald

Bill Sebald — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:49:49 +0000

Matt Cutts’ comments give me a reassurance that they are not bad as long as they are themed and relevant; but Matt often gives suggestions to SEOs that are user aimed primarily.

I’m always open to reciprocol links for my blog if I think it’s a good link for a user, and vice-versa. I don’t really want my blog (or clients’ sites for that matter) where they don’t belong. The traffic is wasteful and the SEO is extremely low value. If everything else is optimized well, these “benefits” are under the threshold so to speak.

@Karen Allen – I think a lot of SEOs do actually get it. It’s SEO 2.0!

By: Karen Allen

Karen Allen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:23:31 +0000

There is nothing wrong with link exchange. All you have to do is keep your volume natural and link with quality sites within your realm of interest.

I have never seen so much paranoia about linking. Matt Cutts has restated many times that link exchange is fine as long as you avoid the high volume irrelevant linking that some software and services offer. Why can’t you SEO’s understand the difference between relevant link exchange for the end user and irrelevant high volume linking??

I just saw this blog which sums things up fairly well.

http://blog.linksmanager.com/?p=68

By: Trezora - Art, Glass, Fashion, Jewelry

Trezora - Art, Glass, Fashion, Jewelry — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:30:59 +0000

I am extremely stingy in giving out links and always carefully consider page rank of the other site before doing so. Based on this article, I am being overly conservative.

Your advice is great and I will now link to relevant sites that I previously would not have considered.

Mendy

By: Raj Krishnaswamy

Raj Krishnaswamy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:03:04 +0000

Excellent write up. This is a highly debatable subject as everyone knows. I tend to agree also with comments by Harsh. Thank you.

By: CT Moore

CT Moore — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:35:29 +0000

Matt Cutts’ comments makes me think that something like “reciprocal link density” might be a useful guideline — like keyword density is.

By: Arnie

Arnie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:30:32 +0000

I sort of assumed ‘excessive’ might imply from one large “links page” to another. I would say try to follow that other link building rule of thumb: get as many links for traffic as you can.