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Mert · 01-22-2008, 06:34 PM

I wanted to share this golden rule with every single member here. No matter how valuable you think a directory link is.... Never ever never do a reciprocal link exchange with a directory (ESPECIALLY from your home page.)

teamaguilar · 01-27-2008, 02:01 AM

can you explain why?

Adier · 05-01-2008, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by teamaguilar

can you explain why?

One way links is better than reciprocal links?

teamaguilar · 05-01-2008, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Adier

One way links is better than reciprocal links?

yes, I agree, but one way links are hard to get these days

Adier · 05-02-2008, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by teamaguilar

yes, I agree, but one way links are hard to get these days

If we are to stick in directories that offers free one way links theirs lot of them the problem is the quality of the directories,

NealRM · 05-02-2008, 03:54 AM

The reasons why

many directories will run afoul of Google at some point. A link on your site to them will drag you down with them.
Many times your listing will be on an interior page with a lower PR. So you end up trading a good PR link from your home page for a lower PR link from one of their interior pages. This is a net SEO loss for you.
The same also applies to traffic. The traffic you send to the directory will be less than the traffic you receive from it.

Adier · 05-02-2008, 04:07 AM

Yes traffic wise it's a not a good thing to get from directories the visitor you'll get from directories would be from other webmasters only not from usual visitors, who use directory for searching anyway when we have search engines.

elizabeth · 05-14-2008, 02:57 AM

But usually I did was an ABC process (this was the term they usually call it) when one directory requires a reciprocal link I manage to put the recip for my article blog and some of them accepted it. Is this Good or Bad?

Adier · 05-14-2008, 05:55 AM

The question would be, why submit to reciprocal directories when we have lots of free one way directories?

Mert · 05-14-2008, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by elizabeth

But usually I did was an ABC process (this was the term they usually call it) when one directory requires a reciprocal link I manage to put the recip for my article blog and some of them accepted it. Is this Good or Bad?

Elizabeth the issue is if the article blog you have is linking back to or getting a link from your site, the relationships are not that hard to catch especially if your competition reports you.

Adier, thank you for defending the cause for me when I was absent.