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Old 05-14-2007, 11:14 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Default Re: Quality Reciprocal or Homepage Links?

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Originally Posted by Jay Griffin View Post
You might want to get into the mindset that if you are giving a link you're doing it because of the merit of the page or site. If you are getting a link it's for the traffic it can drive.
It is an honor to have the great Jay Griffin here by the way ladies and gentlemen. Sorry I can not be involved with conversations in REW Jay as I also got sadly banned by Morgan (for questioning content link exchange strategies he lately implemented) but follow your comments closely.

I fully agree with the whole advice. The problem we have with us the local sites is that we do real estate and we are local. As I made a humorous joke in my latest blog piece on Real Estate Webmasters and Google the issue is that reciprocal linking outside the link farm tactics is sort of becoming like the illegal drug trade. Google will bust some and not the others. My site is one of the busted ones due to association with REW in the past. The issue is how to get links to a real estate site. I mean what deems us interesting as a real estate site. Jim Messenger talks about link baiting to sell his blogcentric websites and I respect that but how many good realtors are that creative writers or even have the time to do that type of writing which is interesting and link baitable??? I mind you the types of Andy Hagans charges thousands of dollars for a real link baiter. Do you see our dillemma?
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Mert Sahinoglu is a Chicago Real Estate Broker /and partner of Falcon Living, a Chicago, IL Real Estate Brokerage. I specialize in Chicago condos and Chicago Flat Fee MLS. I also have a Chicago Real Estate Search Engine Optimization SEO Blog.
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