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HHI Golf Guy · 08-16-2006, 07:12 AM

We have 5 sites that we are currently looking to build links for with link exchanges, article exchanges, and an easy method for RSS feed exchanges.

As an added bonus, if you exchange with us you receive a free, non-reciprocal directory listing. The goal is that as this directory populates it will be a great resource of quality sites for others to seek exchanges.

You may want to read up on the RSS feed exchange information that we provided. RSS feeds are a great way to establish fresh content and vary your anchor text.

You may also want to read up on the article about using sub domains for your outbound links.

To sign up you can visit our master link site at http://www.RealEstateLinkHQ.com

SEOWolf · 09-26-2006, 11:37 AM

Hi Shawn,

Many sites took a big hit with the last Google back link update.

How were your sites affected?

Has this changed your linking strategy and if so how?

~VegasMack

Mirra · 09-30-2006, 03:32 AM

Hi VegasMack and Shawn,

I was doing Link Exchange projects for past 4 months, Currently I do link exchange for www.vegasinsurance.net which is almost in the stage of completion, after seeing your messages, I too want to learn more about this link exchange in general, and the updates of google which plays a major role in this program. Will you please help me and guide me by telling more about the updates and will you exchange link with my site.

Thanks in Advance for any response,
Mirra

HHI Golf Guy · 10-04-2006, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VegasMack

Hi Shawn,

Many sites took a big hit with the last Google back link update.

How were your sites affected?

Has this changed your linking strategy and if so how?

~VegasMack

Sorry I missed this post before. A few of my sites got hammered. Even a site that had been on top for years. My own SEO site even got hammered (the caveat to that one is I had not added a new link to my own site in two years, so that's my fault for not continuing to build links).

Yahoo and Google are really making changes on how they interpret inbound and outbound links. The biggest thing we are doing is moving all of our outbound links to sub domains. This way, if a search engine does not like our outbound links, the root domain will not be penalized.

Why would a search engine not link your outbound links? Maybe a site you link to is suddenly considered part of a link network or bad neighborhood. Maybe the domain registration expires and it becomes an adult site (I have seen a few RE sites suddenly become adult sites).

Pages that are obvious link pages used to build link popularity also seem to be getting zapped. We lost a ton of links on sites because the link pages were de-indexed or put in supplemental results.

That's why we are working on building real estate and location resource sub domains for our outbound links. I posted a few example links in another post today.

I'm trying to do some neat things for our article exchange partners as well. For example, the index page of our real estate resource guides randomly picks out links to 2-3 articles every time the page is accessed.

If done correctly, RSS feed exchanges are also a great way to build links and content - and keep links and content fresh. For more info on what we're doing with links you can visit http://www.realestatelinkhq.com. As always, everyone is free to call me, email me, or PM me to discuss link strategies.

Bama-Homer · 10-05-2006, 04:24 PM

Hey,

I went to your site for the RSS feed exchange and received the dreaded 500 Internal Server Error.

Are you still looking to trade feeds?

Thanks

HHI Golf Guy · 10-06-2006, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bama-Homer

Hey,

I went to your site for the RSS feed exchange and received the dreaded 500 Internal Server Error.

Are you still looking to trade feeds?

Thanks

Can you do me a favor and let me know the details of the error that you recieved? (i.e. if it tells you an error at line xx of yyyyy.asp). I just tested the Feed Exchange page and it worked fine.

I may have an problem with my error trapping code that I am overlooking. Thanks!

And yes - I am still exchanging RSS feeds.

Bama-Homer · 10-06-2006, 11:07 AM

Looks like it is working, must have been some wierd glich.

I submitted my feed.

I am knew at setting those up, let me know if you encounter any problems.
I created a different feed last night in RSS 2.0 as well.
If you think that is a better format, I will submit that one as a replacement.

Thanks!

HHI Golf Guy · 10-21-2006, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VegasMack

Hi Shawn,

Many sites took a big hit with the last Google back link update.

How were your sites affected?

Has this changed your linking strategy and if so how?

~VegasMack

Just a quick update here. As I mentioned, a couple of our sites were hammered a few months ago with the Yahoo and Google updates. This came as quite a shock to me, as we had previously weathered the Jagger, Bourbon, and Florida updates on G as well as the other Y updates.

The good news is that with the changes we made those sites have come back to their top 1-5 rankings. Frankly, the more I studied what was going on the more interesting I found the results and the solutions.