Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'link exchange'

A Google Webmaster Help thread asks a common question in link building. The question is, are "web site designed by X," where "X" is a link to your company, against Google's guidelines? Both a "level 4" and "top contributor" replied...

Posted on November 13, 2009 6:46 AM

Link exchanges: The poor man's SEO from CNET discusses the pros and cons of link exchanges. The article isn't bad, overall. What I personally find funny is that CNET quoted Evan Duffield after Evan emailed CNET with a link exchange...

Posted on July 15, 2009 8:42 AM

A newish patent application from Yahoo named Identifying excessively reciprocal links among web entities was filed on January 8, 2009. The patent inventors include Priyank Garg and Tim Converse of Yahoo, both well-known search engineers at Yahoo. Of course, we...

Posted on January 13, 2009 8:28 AM

Link building is going to happen whether I like it or not, so I better accept the 949394 emails I get per day. A WebmasterWorld thread asks link builders how they ask for links via email. Some tactics include putting...

Posted on December 30, 2008 9:16 AM

On the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Blog (and even in a second post), Senior Product Manager Skip Chilcott writes that link exchanges are a "popular way to generate more links." Blogger Saad Kamal has a problem with this. Citing...

Posted on November 21, 2008 9:44 AM

Matt Cutts wrote a blog post yesterday about how Google is noticing reciprocal link exchange requests and how the sender of the particular email tried to circumvent Google's "filters" by including a request for a link exchange within in image...

Posted on May 20, 2008 8:47 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread goes into a debate about the nature of link swaps or link exchanges. EGOL, forum moderator, sparked the debate by saying: Link swapping is manipulation. Now, you and I know that he did not mean that...

Posted on October 23, 2007 7:35 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread has a story of an SEO who got himself in a mess. The mess is that he has to get his client 20 PR6 links all for the price of $475. Yea, read that again. The...

Posted on September 5, 2007 7:05 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Google has made a slight but yet important change to their link schemes page within their Webmaster Guidelines section. BEFORE: Examples of link schemes can include: Link exchange and reciprocal links schemes ("Link to me and...

Posted on August 16, 2007 7:13 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is having a debate over the topic of link exchanges. There are those that believe link exchanges help improve your rankings in the search results, then there are those that believe they do not help. Tedster quotes...

Posted on July 12, 2007 7:59 AM