Link Exchange Tips, No Tricks

<ul> <li>Use text links, avoid image links.</li> <li>Anyhow, if you have used image links, then always make sure to put your keywords in the alt tags.</li> <li>Put your prime keywords in text links and always insure to put a short descriptions of your website/page in minimum of 20-30 words or more if allowed.</li> <li>In text links if you are not allowed to add descriptions then always try to put a short descriptions in title tag. E.g.: < a href =" link-exchange.html " title =" Link Exchange Tips, No Tricks " >Link Exchange< /a ></li> <li>Avoid repetition of keywords, repetition will lead to low rankings.</li> <li>Always try to exchange links from related websites (e.g. if you have a football league website, then a link from other sports websites will be known as related website links)</li> <li>Never, exchange links with unrelated websites/pages.</li> <li>Always ensure that the website that you are exchanging links with, is well optimized and has a good content.</li> <li>Never try to exchange links in quick sessions. Since search engines ignores or does not index those sites who gets bundles of links in quick time.</li> <li>Give your link exchange works few hours every day, to ensure that you get limited but quality links.</li> <li>Mainly for new websites, avoid exchanging bundles of links in quick sessions.</li> <li>Avoid creating a link/links.html file, since search-engines do not index link/links.html files, often.</li> <li>Always make a 'resources' (any appropriate name) folder and create an index.html file for that named folder and create appropriate html files for appropriate links going into them. (a sort of web-directory)</li> <li>Never, never exchange links with pages bearing more than 50 back-links. Generally 25 is appropriate and should not be more than two clicks away from the index/main page.</li> <li>Always ensure yourself that the page/website you are exchanging link is being indexed by the search engines or not.</li> <li>Also ensure on your own that the page/website you are exchanging link with, is not being blocked by any scripts, or disallowed by robots.txt, or disallowed by using noindex, nofollow on html page.</li> <li>Avoid linking to those tricky and false websites, and if possible inform already linked websites about the matter and ask them for link-exchange, if related to your websites.</li> <li>Links from the main/index page of the related website is the most quality link that a website can get. But, never try to place more than 20 back-links in index/main page.</li> <li>Exchanging links with your competitor's back linking website/pages are also the quality links that a website can get.</li> <li>Never post your website links to FFA, Guestbook, or other unrelated areas. Since search-engines completely ignores such links and may penalize your website.</li> <li>Site bearing good Google page rank are appropriate for link-exchange. Generally 4+ Google page rank is great for link-exchange.</li> <li>Exchanging links with old website is excellent.</li> <li>Link exchanging with new websites, with decent Google ranking at first, but bears quality contents and is well optimized, is also an excellent option for exchanging-links, since new websites bears less outgoing links than the old websites.</li> <li>While exchanging links for homepage of your website, also try to exchange links for sub-pages of it, for better ranking for that particular sub-page.</li> <li> Personal verification of the linking partner's website is recommended.</li> <li>Check for total incoming and outgoing links for whole website or for particular sub-pages of your linking partner's website and off course of your own before getting link exchanged.</li> </ul>

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