Pittsburgh SEO BlogSEO Forum Providing Free Advice
Interestingly, today I can across another free SEO forum where you can ask questions about SEO to another top level SEO company based in the UK as well as it’s other users. I think this is a great idea! Providing people with a forum to ask you questions about SEO and providing that service for free is really great. You can read more about their release of this free forum on their press release.
I’ve checked out their blog and I don’t see to many people posting questions so now is you’re chance to get your questions answered.
I’ll take up one of the posted questions I’ve found there,
I have a site and have a reciprocal link system in place where I get a link and so does someone else. I have been told that this is bad practice… does anyone have any opinion on this?
From my experience I don’t believe reciprocal link system such as link exchanges are that valuable. I’ve been finding that they actual can bring no or little value back to the linking sites. Why..? Well, for one Google has sated that engaging in link schemes in order to increase PR is against their quality guidelines. Now I don’t know how exactly they do it but I’m sure Google is checking sites to see if they are engaging in a link exchange. It’s rather easy to detect this. Plus on top of that most link exchanges you get a link from a web page that has no PR or little PR and is full of other links on the page so what little PR might have been on that page is broken down among a ton of other sites. In fact I go more into detail about link exchanges and how they are devalued on my new blog in a post titled Why Link Exchanges Are Devalued, you should check it out.
