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Looking to establish 2 and 3 way linking partners. Please let me know if you are interested.

Here is my link to my reciprocal linking page.

Regards,
Howard


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ourmonmouth.com Full-Service Internet Solution Provider and Business/Community directory of Monmouth County New Jersey.

What is the purpose of this?

Just to let you know, link farms are not favorable in Google`s eyes.
If Google had eyes.
Maybe the "oo" in Google is the eyes.

I disagree 3 way links are very successful as a method to get inbound links to boost PR (page rank). Very favorable to search engines including google. I would be happy to discuss this further after you do some research.

Howard


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ourmonmouth.com Full-Service Internet Solution Provider and Business/Community directory of Monmouth County New Jersey.

Whether or not you think it helps you, it does happen to violate Google`s terms of inclusion and could actually get your site banned from their system.

But sure, go for it!

Random reciprocal links are going to hurt you in two ways: first, if they`re not relevant to your content and offering, they can be flagged by Google and other engines, and second, if they`re not relevant to your users, you`re creating a poor experience, which is a sure fire way to make them one-time visitors.

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chuck fuller

Thanks Chuck... I was about to say the same thing. My business offers earthborn & handmade items. When using educated marketing techniques designed to achieve the highest return on my investment, it is not fruitful enough for me to do the work, or pay the cost of being listed on a site offering automotive parts. Sure, I would love to have my site on all websites throughout the web. But really, I have to think of the visitors also. If they see my site ad (links) everywhere, it won`t be long before my business is the butt of a joke.

So, when creating reciprocal links, I think you have to measure the audience about to view those links. It doesn`t do my business any good to have a visitor of the automotive parts site to `accidentally` click on my link. Only to have then leave once knowing they are not interested in buying earthborn & handmade products.

I think that`s why Google makes it a `crime` to be involved with link farms. Google is doing their best to provide accurate, informative, and directional results to searches of their visitors. If your page ranking raises due to unrelated content, the users of Google will use some other service. That`s not good for Google. Sure you might get away with it for a while, but when it catches up to you... It`s tough to overcome. Be careful out there.


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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

It is not a crime to link to another site. Reciprocal links should be a part of a e-marketing strategies. I never said that a link exchange or reciprocal linking should be done without discreation or purpose. There is a lot of reading material on this topic in many quality SEO forums. Here is a good one to read: 

searchenginewatch.com

Again, if it makes sence I would encourage anyone to contact me who is intrested.

Thank you for your candid responces,
Howard


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ourmonmouth.com Full-Service Internet Solution Provider and Business/Community directory of Monmouth County New Jersey.

Thanks to Chuck and Vince for saying it better than I did.

I was getting myself stuck on "after you do some research".

Just a note... I wrote "crime" in quotations. I was hoping to suggest I didn`t mean the literal use of the word, crime. I do understand.


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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

I still disagree with the premise that link to other sites via exchange is wrong. I do not define linking to affiliates or business that I want to support link farming.

Personally I don`t think is wrong to advertise your business on other non-related sites. How many of your competitors are going to add a link to you? As long as you stay clear of "bad neighborhoods" (which is perhaps what you are referring to as link farms), porn, and gambling sites I think it is valid.

Unless you feel like supporting Google by paying 10-20$ per click for many top key words only to find yourself a victim of fraud....... Reality.




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ourmonmouth.com Full-Service Internet Solution Provider and Business/Community directory of Monmouth County New Jersey.