Reciprocal links and Google bans

[Juancho]

I'm just starting to promote a couple of sites and I planned to use a Reciprocal link tool, to get as many sites linking to mine, but after reading few posting in this forum and in others I'm concerned that this strategy may get my sites banned from adsense or from the search engines itself. Does anyone has some information about this issue? and if you have the same concern but you find your way around, I'd love to know what you are doing

Cheers

Juancho

[Eladesor]

Reciprocal links are fine, proving you follow the basic rules e.g. link sites 'like for like', use 'anchor text' and 'keywords' as part of your linking strategy etc..... However, the number of links on your site alone is not enough to improve your search engine rankings. It is also important that the other web sites are related to your web site. Links from unrelated web sites won't do your own web site much good. If the links to your web site include your important keywords in the link text, the effect on your search engine rankings will be much higher.

Hope that helps - a little :)

[Sam Freedom]

For you to get high rankings the old-fashioned
White Hat SEO way, it does help that the site
you get links from has content relevant to yours.
I also can't say definitely that Adsense won't
ban you if you use an automated link too.

However, I have gotten numerous top rankings
(Two #1's even) using a Black Hat tool posting
to sites that had no relevance to my site at all.
In fact, the sites I promoted were redirects and
now they are #1 in Yahoo.

Is that so bad to get a #1 in Yahoo for a competitive
keyword?

#1 Ranking In Yahoo (http://www.sam-freedom.com/f/seokeywordtip-yahoo-1.jpg)

While I make no direct recommendations, I would be
surprised if Adsense banned sites for then all you would
have to do is spam your competition's links all over the
place and put them out of business...easily. So it's a
tough call.

I personally try to link to a site that has lead capture and
is just 1 step away from Adesense sites.

Sincerely,
Sam

[flyer]

> I'm concerned that this strategy may get my sites banned from adsense or from the search engines itself.

Why? There's nothing in the TOS about this. Why would they care how you built your link pages? All these tools do is (semi)automate that process.

[Matthew]

As long as you are not using the tool to generate a lot of useless links that have no relevance to your content you should be fine.

Take a look at http://internet-marketing.gms3000.com/google-bad-linking-practises.php

[SEO Coach]

I agree with Sam. Learning good SEO habits is not hard, it just takes some patience. Linking to good neighborhoods is also important.
Remember to use the correct anchor text and you'll do great.

Jon
SEO Consultant (http://www.marketingbypermission.com)


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