the "party-line"
what to do about building up visibility
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I admit that my own personal experience is limited to a few sites in a couple of areas, but mostly I'm just reiterating the "party line" as it were, that you should focus both on developing content _and_ getting reciprocal links. I have found this to work well for me, and so have others.
I do think that some people get overly paranoid about linking. Let me put it this way: many people advise you to forget about the search engines and do things as if they do not exist, (except for standard keyword research and placement, of course). Well, in a world without search engines, why would you ever decline a reciprocal link from a genuine, related site? What reason would you have not to link? Who knows, it might actually get you some traffic!
Admittedly, most reciprocal linking stragegies are aimed at increasing PR. However, the fear of penalization seems to me to be the only argument against reciprocal linking, and I don't think you should let that fear stop you from doing something which has legitimate value for your site. If you organize your reciprocal links well and stay focused on your theme, your links page could be a useful resource rather than a liability. So I really think you should do both link and content development, and try not to lose sleep over it.
Web Browsers (GRML)
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Web Browsers bar graphs (GRML)
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Web Browsers bar graphs (GRML)
Web Browsers (GRML)
Web Browsers (GRML)
Web Browsers (GRML)
I admit that my own personal experience is limited to a few sites in a couple of areas, but mostly I'm just reiterating the "party line" as it were, that you should focus both on developing content _and_ getting reciprocal links. I have found this to work well for me, and so have others.
I do think that some people get overly paranoid about linking. Let me put it this way: many people advise you to forget about the search engines and do things as if they do not exist, (except for standard keyword research and placement, of course). Well, in a world without search engines, why would you ever decline a reciprocal link from a genuine, related site? What reason would you have not to link? Who knows, it might actually get you some traffic!
Admittedly, most reciprocal linking stragegies are aimed at increasing PR. However, the fear of penalization seems to me to be the only argument against reciprocal linking, and I don't think you should let that fear stop you from doing something which has legitimate value for your site. If you organize your reciprocal links well and stay focused on your theme, your links page could be a useful resource rather than a liability. So I really think you should do both link and content development, and try not to lose sleep over it.