FDJA
06-25-2006, 12:50 PM
I'm contemplating something, looking for some insight.
Can similar sites, (owned by entirely seperate people/companies), with Big PR Values and excellent search engine results help one another by cross linking?
Here's the deal... Niche' Vertical Market Directories are being hammered by the "big boys" now that Google's Big Daddy has been introduced. Google now gives way more relevance to those highly commercial sites and mega directories than ever before. The sites which are truly relevant are shoved to lower rankings to make room for the mega directories that have everything from toilet seats to web designers. The "information repositories" sites are shoe horning their way in the top 10 too.
Obviously it's completely idiotic if someone types in "____" and finds the top 10 results occupied by the mega directories and information repositories just because they're big or have a perceived link back popularity! Google now places these sites high in the relevancy results, sometimes by virtue of just one keyword in the body contents even though the pages and sites have nothing to do with the topic.
It's bad enough that the mega directories eclipse all the privately owned sites anyway, but vertical market directories were really the ONLY "last stand" against the giant sites (which typically have no purpose other than to draw traffic to them, flipping visitors into AdSense or just giving their sales people leverage with stats about how many gabillion hits that get every month, so buy a $200 ad in our directory...").
So.... I'm thinking - What if competitive sites in the vertical market directory business "joined forces" by reciprocal linking to each other's sites. Would this be a tactical advantage in regaining relevancy?
Can similar sites, (owned by entirely seperate people/companies), with Big PR Values and excellent search engine results help one another by cross linking?
Here's the deal... Niche' Vertical Market Directories are being hammered by the "big boys" now that Google's Big Daddy has been introduced. Google now gives way more relevance to those highly commercial sites and mega directories than ever before. The sites which are truly relevant are shoved to lower rankings to make room for the mega directories that have everything from toilet seats to web designers. The "information repositories" sites are shoe horning their way in the top 10 too.
Obviously it's completely idiotic if someone types in "____" and finds the top 10 results occupied by the mega directories and information repositories just because they're big or have a perceived link back popularity! Google now places these sites high in the relevancy results, sometimes by virtue of just one keyword in the body contents even though the pages and sites have nothing to do with the topic.
It's bad enough that the mega directories eclipse all the privately owned sites anyway, but vertical market directories were really the ONLY "last stand" against the giant sites (which typically have no purpose other than to draw traffic to them, flipping visitors into AdSense or just giving their sales people leverage with stats about how many gabillion hits that get every month, so buy a $200 ad in our directory...").
So.... I'm thinking - What if competitive sites in the vertical market directory business "joined forces" by reciprocal linking to each other's sites. Would this be a tactical advantage in regaining relevancy?