Is Hiding Your Links Page a Good Idea?

Maximizing Your Ranking Power

[martinibuster]

I hate links-page links on my own websites. Unless you control a vast network of sites, it's like bad tasting medicine: Something you have to do.

So we hide the link. And worse. Sometimes we bury the link to the Links Page in the about us page!

Is this a good practice?

Is there a better way of doing this?

<edited for clarity>

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:29 pm (utc) on July 29, 2004]

[chrisnrae]

"A mom & pop may actually give you a great quality one-way link without asking for a recip, just because they like your website."

Yep. They're awesome for that. The often contain scattered linking patterns as well and not tons of recipricols. As for the links page, KOB gave a good suggestion. Honestly though, I've been trying to back off link exchanges and am doing outbounds from the content when appropriate.

[King of Bling]

...and don't forget, but citing "extended reference's" on a per-article basis, you can keep things really targeted in terms of key-phrase linking. Plus the options are limitless.

"Restoring a 69 Corvette" page/article can have such (on-topic) linking opportunites as:
- American Corvette Assn
- Buy Reproduction Corvette parts
- National Corvette shows
- Corvette clothing and Collectibles

You get the picture. Now think of the link opp's with all of your other "makes." Plus, people really want to link TO authority-style content.

Have at it.

KOB