SE friendly LE service

[tml89]

I want to use a service for my link exchanges instead of hand coding. What is the best service for this keeping in mind price, and most importiantly one that is not peanalized by the top se's

[Tupur]

As far as I know SEs don't like software generated links. It is best to do your linking campaigns manually. Better you hire someone inhouse or outsource.

[tml89]

If it is better for Se I will do it that way. Also currently I have one page for all my links, theyre just listed one after another. Should I be putting them into categories?

[rogerd]

Tml89, think of your visitors - are they going to derive any value from a long list of sites? If you have more than a few outbound links, definitely organize them and present them in a way that is friendly to your human visitors. That will make you a more attractive link partner, too. (I get link requests from sites that have one links page with 300 disorganized URLs listed one per line - these requests almost always go straight to the bit bucket.) Don't include too many on one page, either - as your total goes above 50, for example, start dividing your links across multiple pages. Keep them organized and easy to find, of course.

[Tupur]

Hi tml89,

I agree with Rogerd. You will find sites with tons of reciprocal links ( and with same link title). But I doubt if the visitors take any trouble to click on those links. Organize your link page so that your link partners get the benefits and then you can expect the same. Carefully write your link description that will force the visitors to click on your link. Thus other than having PR, you might get business from your links. Link promotion should be done with that much care as the content of your site. Good luck.

[Herenvardo]

I would like to add something:
I had a single links page and it was manually managed. After reaching 100 links, I decided to split it in three, by simply alphabetical order.
I used the originall links page (links.html) and put links to the other three pages (links1.html, etc). As I feared, the file links.html kept it's previous PR (always among 4~5), but the other three files where PR0. People do not use to link to sites with PR0, so it has hurted us a little. The problem get bigger when some of the sites we had already traded links with removed them because they didn't find the string href="http://www.theirdomain.com" in my links.html file... I had to contact to each webmaster informing that their link had been moved, and giving the url of the new link page. Some checked it and, viewing the PR0, decided to not put our link again. Some didn't give any response and we loss a lot of links.
So, beware. If you modify your links' pages' structure, keep in mind which consequences can carry these changes.

Greetings,
Herenvardö