Why link exchange? One way links are always a good ways but then never underestimate the power of link exchanges from the relevant sites and they can always prove to be the best marketing policy to take your website off the ground but if done in a better way. Reciprocal links help you in two ways: 1. They increase your web site traffic, from people who click on the links. 2. Reciprocal links also play a major role in boosting your rankings in search engines. (provided they are relevant links) Introduction Over time I always contact some sites that I feel might be prepared to swap links or even just I think the sites will be useful to my users I link to the site from the sticky threads on the forums but I prefer telling the other webmaster that I have linked to your site and so if you think you can, do the same but cannot say that I have told all of them. The question is how is this actually done? Suppose for example that I approach the webmaster for example.com and suggest swapping links do I have to supply them with a bit of code for insertion into thier website source or is it all done from thier side. Come to think of it if they agree to swap links what do I have to do. What is bad email? As I am writing this article I get couple of messages popup from the GMail notifier with the subject as Link Exchange Request with the same body all over again. and I would like to share that one with you. The email look something like this. I know above one is not a spam in one respect that its used by the Contact Us form on my forums where you need the image verification to send an email or even a private messages which can be done by the registered users only but then also I qualify it as too general message deserving a reply. The points that I would prefer when he writes such an emails are 1. If you mentioned to found me on google or any other search engine without mentioning the terms I would not consider you as a genuine person who found me on google without any terms. Yes you can always find the website without google and then dont mention that you found us on google. 2. Dont sound like you can do anything for the links. You have placed it where its appropriate and cannot be changed or if it can be changed dont place it. 3. Use the domain email address because if you can't it does give you good weight. 4. I would prefer not to be giving the link details to the other webmaster because as he is webmaster he know some basics of HTML. Now the question comes as to what should be the content of the email that you can think will have more positive replies than just get deleted. You can always supply the code but not when you are contacting first time. How to go about it? In the first part I described about what is bad way to ask for the link exchanges but after criticising the way people go about it what is the better way of doing it. I would collect the following information about the website before contacting them and put them into an excel file. Code: +----------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Term | Information | +----------+-------------------------------------------------+ | name | Person Name to contact | | siteurl | URL of the page found with the #term# | | term | Google term (Preferably Your anchor text) | | termurl | Your site url you are targeting with the #term# | +----------+-------------------------------------------------+ Apart from the above info you can also have the PageRank or the no of backlinks to the site as well so that its easy for you to sort out whom you want to be contacting first. Then have the email as small as possible with the above data well into it. Something like The main reason to keep the email as small is webmasters are very busy and then when he replies then you can provide the code if he prefers to but you already have the code in the first email in that little paragrapgh.
Great article! It'll be helpful for everyone, who wants to increase web site traffic... Thanks for article, Shabbir
I see, but I thought giving someone their private email address like gmail or hotmail gives a sense of closeness between the two webmasters... anyways, but is always good to have the email address extension of your own domain though. Ted
Thanks for sharing! Sometimes I was agonising about the bad links appeared in my Email, Especially if the link appeared more than twice. I think when they post the link, they should consider about the feeling of the client.
Nice post! Link exchange is good. But I read one-way link is much better. Search engines likes one-way link much more than a two way link. So do a lot of article writing with backlinks to your site and post it! Good luck!
The first recommended way to get links is to develop useful, unique and original content. Webmasters who visit your website will see that content is good and will link to your website to provide their visitors with some useful websites(info maybe?). If you searched Internet for some information, then you know how hard it can be to find a useful website.
Won't work for me, I have so many advertisers in my site, don't have place for link exchange (new advertiser) TM
Nice post, its indeed a art. This is not a link trade. You're linking to them because you think they have value. If they link back to you then it's for the same reason.
Link exchange is good for traffic. But better if you have one way links when we are talking about seo.
To connect to high PR sites, first start with sites having PR same as your site, connect to them, then you may see slight increase in your PR, then look for higher PR sites. Hope it works well.
Link exchange is good process by collecting links for a website.basically one way link which is more valuable for site and Reciprocal links also plays a vital role for a website to boost your ranking.so collecting links from other sites some rules and regulation must obey..
I think, links exchange is dead. G and Y detec that site A links to site B and back. More better is using system to create one way links ... true backlinks ... like BackLinks Genius