There are a few things to consider before you contact any blog for link exchange, a few things on which you need to think on and a few things you should avoid while exchanging links. Lets discuss them!
1. Ask Blogs With The Same / Less PR Only For Link Exchange
Most of the bloggers ask high PR and popular blogs for link exchange. Suppose your blog has a PR-0 and you try exchanging links with PR-5 blogs, do you think any such blog will accept your offer? I bet NO!
A few days back a person contacted me saying that no blog is ready for exchanging links with my PR-0 blog. I thought at least PR-0 blogs should accept his offer. Then I wondered for a moment and emailed him for sites he had contacted for link exchange. The first site was Tech Crunch, next was Mashable and the high profile blog list continued. I wondered again why those sites will exchange links? I was happy that he didn’t contact Google for link exchange! Choose a blog for link exchange wisely is all that I want to suggest.
2. Don’t Exchange Links With Adult Sites / Auto Sites
Exchanging links with such sites is like destroying our site’s search engine ranks. Links from such sites hardly add any value. Links from auto blogs or sites and adult sites may harm your site badly. They may perhaps spoil all your SEO! So always try avoiding links with such sites.
3. Avoid Exchanging Links With Blogs Not Related To Your Blog Niche
Suppose you own a technology blog and you you exchange links with sports blogs, the links swill hardly add any value to your search engine rankings and page rank. Instead Google may penalize your site for such links. So always try avoiding link exchange with unrelated sites or blogs.
4. Make Sure You Get Do Follow Links
Some sites under pretext of link exchange may give you no-follow links. So before exchanging links always make sure the links you receive are do follow because no follow links won’t give you any link juice. After link exchange always check if the link is do follow.
5. Permanent Links Are Useful, Temporary Are Useless
Permanent links are useful for a blog SEO, while temporary links are very harmful. So try exchanging links with reliable bloggers and sites so that your link stays on their blog or site for a long time and not just a few weeks or months.
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January 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Agree with your point that one should only exchange links with blogs having same/less PR….. I am wondering how that guy thought of exchanging link with techcrunch, mashable… :-O
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January 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- Best way of link building is article submission and commenting on other blogs :)
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January 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- Great tips on link building. What about commenting on blogs? Is this a good method to build links?
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- Yes ofcourse…..AFAIK commenting on blogs is a good method to build links
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January 6, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Yes, one can benefit from comentluv, keyword luv links a lot! Check out CommentLuv blogs to get some commentluv enabled dofollow blogs.
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- excellent list… I was looking for something that kind
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January 5, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- Hi Saksham, the issue of link building is very controversial. Most people will agree that getting links from low PR sites or from link farms will be detrimental to your blog. At the same time, most bloggers will agree that getting links from high PR blogs, in the form of guest posting it can be valuable for your blogs SEO. Would other forms of linking, such as CommentLuv links or KeywordLuv links be really useful. Are these high quality links or are they downgraded by search engines line Google? Any advice would be useful!
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January 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Great article very much helpful, but never knew that exchanging with high PR doesn’t works :P look forward to follow your blog for such great articles
Thanks
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January 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- Great points, especially about nofollow – very true, common misconception.
You have got me thinking, my tech blog is a PR 2, but with all the link building and SEO I have been doing, I expect this to rise significantly – interested in a link exchange? Please visit my Technology Blog to check it out :)
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- I will visit the blog for sure, but won’t be able to exchange links. Stopped link exchange these days! :)
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- Good to here you will be visiting, but may I ask why you have stopped link exchanges? SEO reasons, and if so why?
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January 5, 2011 at 5:41 PM
- Great tips Saksham.I use most of the tips you have mentioned in your post.
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January 6, 2011 at 3:35 AM
- I get requests all the time in my email account from one site or another. I ignore them as I don’t want to have to manage the links and make sure the other site continues to link back to me. Instead a joined a link sharing network that handles this management chore for me.
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January 6, 2011 at 8:43 PM
- Really funny :D …..How can he expect link exchange from techcrunch.!!!! :)
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January 8, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Nice tips mate but what about articles directory and directory submission.
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January 8, 2011 at 11:42 AM
- Great tips.I’ll try to follow.
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January 11, 2011 at 6:50 AM
- Anyone may succeed with making money online with hard works and efforts. Just keep on reading and informed with the pros and cons. Keep on learning through post or articles like this. It will help. Thank you for your unending support to newbies. This is of great help. Thank you.
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January 11, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- Commenting on similar niche dofollow blogs and exchaning link with them help a lot in link building. Also, active in forums help.
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January 22, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Hey great post, lot of info on it. But how exactly should I exchange links with other webmaster in our niche? how do I find them? even though I find him, should I ask him randomly?
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February 11, 2011 at 3:03 AM
- Great article and helpful tips. It’s nice to see that people still take the time to teach others by offering free advice and information. That’s what keeps `em coming back!
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March 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM
- i liked your very first point
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April 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM
- Exchanging link with Tech Crunch and Mashable? Smh! Some guys just refuse to choose loneliness and call it freedom O_o
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April 4, 2011 at 1:44 PM
- Hi saksham Great tips bro!!
And it is very funny, Is that a happened incident? Did that person contacted Techcrunch for link exchange? Very Funny!!! :)
Also i would like to know how can we check whether the link is do follow or no follow?
I dont know how to check it. Please clarify my doubts
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April 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Nice to know this i will submit and try and get a blog link installed onto one of the sites thanks for your post cya affiliateblog.com.au
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April 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- Nice to checkout the blogging tips to exchange links. Can you please tell me if there is any other way to get page rank without link exchange or begging someone for links ?
I am running a blog in which I add topics which I like and it is not a particular technology or entertainment or tips blog.I add whatever I like on internet.Like My last post is a video on Tsunami in Japan .Please tell me how can I increase my pagerank ?
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May 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- Link Building is easy. We can get easy backlinks by commenting and guest blogging on other sites.
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August 19, 2011 at 5:05 AM
- Yeah the best one is to comment daily on all your niche blogs. This increases traffic, gives you exposure, and a sure backlink.
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June 5, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- As you see in #3 above–irrelevant backlinks and sites that aren’t high quality will not help your SERP
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June 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Yes i agree with this 5 ways to exchange link, but my question is, this is enough to build your links and to get more traffic? how about submission and commenting on other blogs i think it also great way to build you link…Thanks for your share..
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June 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- I’m still working on my pagerank hope It can increase soon and like you said it make me more confidence to exchange link with less PR blog
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- I wish you luck for increasing your page rank. try doing guest posts on blogs to get useful backlinks!
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July 11, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- Yes, I thin guest post on other blogs can be a great way to build healthy link. I recently start my own blog in technology news and I am seeking to build healthy link. But as you can understand my blog is as per now only less than one month old. Can we make cooperation? If you give me permission, I would write a post for your blog and you let me put the link to my blog in it. Of course further details, like for theme and words count can be discussed. I’d appreciate any response for this inquiry. :-D
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July 6, 2011 at 4:01 AM
- How do you find out what sites are linking to your site?
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July 12, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- I Totally Agree With You Rajan! This Is The Best Way. thank you
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August 10, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- link building matter very much when it comes to increasing your page rank and commenting on other blogs of your niche is what i can say the best way…….
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- IMO, guest blogging is the best way and blog commentating is the easiest way :)
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- Truly said…hey saksham did u check my mail
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August 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- In regards to #2, Google considers a lot of adult orientated websites to be “bad neighborhood” websites in which case if Google sees you linking to them it can get you penalized and that’s no good.
Just be careful of who you link with, and always check your link exchanges often as some people like to pull a tactic of the switch-a-roo, where they present you with a link to a site that seems perfectly fine and then changes it around to be an adult orientated website. I’ve had this happen before on my old webmaster blog, I exchanged links with another webmaster blog and then a few weeks later I checked the site again and it turned into a pornography website.
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- Aah, such cases are rare, but yes we need to be vigilant and keep on checking our link exchanges! Some people may cheat us. BTW, thanks for cautioning us.
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August 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- Thanks a lot for the tips. Although is commenting on other website really that effective ? I mean, how many comments linked to your website do you need to post to get google to notice you ? hundreds, thousands ?
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August 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- Hey i like ur article…….really its very usefull tips u have kept.
thank u ..
send some more interesting tips
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September 13, 2011 at 6:29 PM
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November 1, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- having to many links on your website can lower the the pagerank.
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November 8, 2011 at 7:09 AM
- I haven’t had much luck exchanging links and I see that I broke a few of the rules you listed. Thanks
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November 15, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- Excellently written! Thanks for the tip that your links should be dofollow. As, the links would be of no use if i build nofollow links.
Nice Information you have written here. Really Great Stuff. I keep it bookmark for our future purpose.
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