Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'link exchange'

Link Buys & Link Exchanges: Should You Compete in a Google World?

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...

Are Link Exchanges All Manipulative of Search Algorithms?

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...

Stuck & Need Links Fast with Little Budget

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...

Google Adds "Excessive" To Link Exchange Guidelines

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...

Do Link Exchanges Still Help With Improving Search Rankings?

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...


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