Exchanges Links

Four2Eight Feet · #1 () 10-03-2005, 07:58 PM

Does it have any effect on your page to accept links from non poker/gambling type sites. I have been getting a bunch of solicitations to exchange links that sell anything from Viagra (bought some

) to books.

All seem to have pretty good PR, usually 4-6. Just been holding on to the requests until I find out.

TIA

#2 () 10-04-2005, 11:25 AM

Moved to the Search Engine Optimization forum.

As far as your question goes, you are who you link to.

corpfan1 · #3 () 10-04-2005, 09:05 PM

Please explain what that means...

I would like to know the same.

CHRIS

SEO Coach · #4 () 10-05-2005, 02:34 AM

"you are who you link to......."

Hmmm, well that might be true if you link to a "bad neighborhood" (see google's TOS) but linking to Pharm sites isn't bad. Just put it in the correct catagory or links page and you'll be fine. Check out the sites, make sure it's a "good" site. Good site means that it has PR, it's clean from junk, porn etc...
If you don't feel good about it, don't link.

So in going back to "who you are". You are or your site is what your
anchor text says it is.
If your anchor text says, SEO Consultant, then your page must be about
search engine optimization.

If it says credit card processing merchant accounts, then it's about ?????????? yep.. that's right, Credit card merchant accounts.

Remember to give your anchor a mix of words.

Jon

Nick · #5 () 10-05-2005, 05:16 AM

What an absolutely shameless plug. Jeremy, add rel=nofollow to all forum links from now on please

#6 () 10-05-2005, 01:19 PM

I've removed the links in the post from "SEO Coach". I don't think adding a nofollow is necessary at this forum since it's fairly well-moderated and junk links like that don't last long here.

"You are who you link to" is self-explanatory.

But to elaborate, if a site offers links to a lot of other high quality sites on a particular topics, then the odds of it also being a high quality site on that particular topic is probably better than if it links to a lot of other low quality sites on unrelated topics.

If you're running a poker-related website, and you have hundreds of links to off-topic sites, how useful is that to your target audience?

A person who comes to your site for poker information would find links to other sources of high quality poker inofrmation useful almost 100% of the time.

A person who comes to your site for poker information and finds links to spammy, low-quality banner farms for porn and pills might find that useful some of the time, but a lot of your traffic is going to find that useless.

My rule of thumb:

If it's helpful to the user, it's probably good SEO, and you should do it.

If it's not helpful for the user, and you're just trying to manipulate search engine results, it's probably not good SEO, and you probably shouldn't do it.

#7 () 10-05-2005, 01:24 PM

By the way, the comments about anchor text being a signal to the search engines about your site's topic are correct, but the implication in that post is that this is the only signal, or that this signal overwhelms all others.

Good SEO has multiple ingredients, not just one.

Four2Eight Feet · #8 () 10-05-2005, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Randy@Oct 5 2005, 12:19 PM

My rule of thumb:

If it's helpful to the user, it's probably good SEO, and you should do it.

Randy,

I think this is a great rule to live by....thanks for the comments all

Think I'll stick with gambling related links.