Do people genuinely still email you asking for a link exchange?
I know I get several emails a month, but I always ignore them, now I’ve got a good captcha feature I hope to gain more confidence in these emails, but I guess I’ll still have doubts.
I remember I found some sample emails about asking for a link exchange, but I’ve used them.
I know you’ve also mentioned DP, but again, I’ve not sure whats good. I guess you’ll say the same sort of things as you said in your recent post about blog commenting. But theres the extra complication of having to add a link to your site too and loosing juice.
by JM
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Like you, I’m also wary of link exchanges. Even if they
look good at the time of the exchange, you can never be
sure they’ll stay good. If you do a lot of them it becomes
a bind checking if your links are still there.
I have done a few link exchanges at DP and two of them
went bad – either my link was removed or turned into a
nofollow link.
Nowadays I have a strict policy on link exchanges:-
1. Either it’s with someone I know and trust like you or ..
2. I do a 3 way link exchange only offering a link from a site I don’t
value too much (like my arcade site) in exchange for a
link to a site I do value (naming no names).
To be honest, I find the whole idea of link exchanging
with strangers on a forum mildly stressful – on the one
hand I’m tempted, on the other I’m wary of ending up
with a bad deal.
Right.
I really must stop talking about it and do some link building.
Yup, I go through spells of spending a few hours a week
building links. Link-building can’t be beaten for improving
traffic and SERPs performance – links are the only thing
that really count.
We should get some links and PR for this blog, sure it would help us a lot.
It might help a little bit, but nowhere near as much as
directly building links to our main sites
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