Can Reciprocals Count As Backlinks

[ulukach]

Most SEO gurus claims:

"Reciprocals improves your site ranking
in case they are relevant to your site content."

Other will claim it can only harm your rankings since major SE will not
count the reciprocals as back links.

Given the common reciprocal correspondence I realized that maybe the best thing todo inorder to increase back links is:

(In addition to the existing site)

- Lifting another site in different domain (other class C in IP address)
- The new site will discuss the same topics/content my current site does
- I will offer reciprocal plan from the new site.
- The reciprocate link will direct the old site

This way SEs will count the reciprocals as backlinks

Appreciate your opinion
Luk

[ulukach]

Is anyone built another site (minor one) in addition to the major site for
the mere purpose to reciprocate links with other sites to the major site?

please advice,

[AnthonyCea]

High percentages of reciprocal links are not all that good, too much interlinking between your sites may hurt you too!

[ulukach]

hi Anthony,

Let me clarify I don't mean to make any inter linking,

To simplify my thoughts lets consider the following sample:

Let's say you own two sites

http://www.majorSite.com

http://www.minorSite.com

Both of them contain related content, you offer a reciprocal link program at the minor site which state that every site that wish to exchange link must add a link to your major site.

So basically if I wish to be part of your program & I own site:

http://www.example.com

The following links will be made:

http://www.minorSite.com will add link to http://www.example.com

http://www.example.com will add link to http://www.majorSite.com


That way both sites will enjoy a one direction link which consider much more
valuable than classic reciprocal link.

[AnthonyCea]

The problem you face with such schemes are people out there that will report you to the search engines and they will then ban you!

This is known as triangular linking and the search engines can figure it out with link mapping technology, they know more about linking than webmasters and there is a risk to most of the concepts in existence, you can do this but you always take a chance, especially if you expose it to other webmasters!

[ulukach]

thanks for the inputs,

by the way how can I report to search engines of schemes?

Can anyone do so?

And does regular reciprocal really count for search engines?

Can they harm if we have many relevant reciprocal links?

[AnthonyCea]

You should read Matt Cutts Blog, he covers all kinds of scams or you can just read all the forums and see them everyday!

You can use the spam reporting tools to report violations to the search engines!

Matt Cutts talks about reciprocal linking here

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/indexing-timeline/

(Matt Cutts works for Google search), but you can have some natural reciprocal links, it is a problem when your total percentage of links come in high on the reciprocal side, especially if they come from link farms (reciprocal link directories and automated reciprocal linking schemes).

Keep reading and learn more before you engage in a linking campaign.

[SEMBasics]

I would forget about trying to find easy "tricks" to get quality backlinks, that's not the future of search optimization. The time and energy you spend on creating your reciprocal linking trick you could spend getting real quality, one-way links. I am sure that there are plenty of sites out there related to your site with decent PageRank which could use quality content. Contact them and ask them what they want (an article, a program, etc.) and then supply it in exchange for a link. Keep doing this for the big sites in your industry. At the same time, go to the blogs and forums in your industry and build up your repuation as an expert and you will start to get some incoming links. Finally, instead of thinking of reciprocal link scams, work on forming quality business partnerships which involve both reciprocal links and other business benefits (for instance, let's say that you are good at writing and someone else is good at programming, you can exchange writing articles on their site for free programming on your site). Partnerships can offer more than links and free services, they can also offer connections to new potential customers, which is more valuable than almost any link -- after all the only reason we want links is to rank well and the only reason we want to rank well is because we want customers. But that's not the only way to find business online. Your reciprocal link partners might be happy to recommend your product or service (online as a link to your site or offline) because it provides more service for his customers.

In short, think business not links -- i.e., links are to fit into your business goals not the other way around.