Note: NewsBlaze does not trade links
It is rare that a day goes by without a website link request arriving in my mailbox. Link exchanges can be good for a website, but they can also be bad, if you’re not careful.
The world is still full of stupid people who think only of themselves. Why would a quality website link to another quality website and accept a link from a garbage link farm, in return?
Usually, I ignore these stupid requests and delete the message, but this one got my attention – it was doubly stupid – because they offered me a link from an IP address website.
Stupid webmasters waste their time and mine, asking for this type of link campaign and they do a disservice to any site that trades with them. The only reason they do it is to gain ranking in Google. Google will soon realise this is a three way link scheme and it will be completely discounted, negating the value the link partners were hoping for.
Unsuspecting webmasters can get themselves into more trouble than they can imagine.
Trading Quality Links
In general, I recommend not trading links at all. The only caveat to that is if the links are “nofollow” links, that don’t pass pagerank, and then they are really ads. This allows the two sites to help each other, by sending visitors to each other, but doesn’t try to manipulate pagerank, which it would if the links were followed.
The moral of the story is to only trade links with quality websites that make sense for you to trade with – sites in your general niche or related to your audience, and make them “nofollow.” Don’t give or accept triangulated links from a third site, a link farm or a buried links page. Give – and accept – only quality, hand crafted “nofollow” links.
Rejecting Link Requests
The best thing for a webmaster to do is to ignore stupid link requests, but I was tired and decided to respond. This was my response to this dummy:
Hello J.
Are you nuts?
Let me get this right.
You want me to give you a quality link to boost your site in the search engines and in return, you will give me a pile of steaming camel dung that has worse than no value, it has negative value.
It was a hard decision, but I have decided to pass on your offer.
Alan
Their message to me:
J. L. wrote:
Dear webmaster,
I hope you are doing fine.
I came across your website http://newsblaze.com/ and would like to propose a link exchange between http://newsblaze.com/ and xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.Com
Please do consider adding our link to your website on your page: http://newsblaze.com/
Here is our linking information:
Title-
Online Betting
Description-
Explore the online betting blog with wealth of information on sports betting picks and tips, arbitrage guides, bankroll management and other related subjects.
URL-
http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/
Let us know when our link is placed and we will post your link in the on this page:
http://85.92.87.114/~promokin/links
Please be sure to include your desired title and description. Your link will be posted in 8 hours, however, in some rare cases it may take longer.
Thank you for your consideration.
Yours sincerely,
—
J. L.
Link Recommendation
Rather than waste time and effort exchanging links to promote your website, instead, write useful, unique content that other people will link to, unasked.
Note that I changed the name of the requesting website above, to protect the stupid.
