Non reciprocal links strategy but still exchanging!

Does this work?

[silverbytes]

I'd like you hear about your experiences first and your opininons later about this strategy:

Getting non reciprocal links to your site, just exchanging links in other site of your own.

Site A is your site you really want to be popular,
Site B is your site you don't care but you exchange links.

You ask reciprocal links this way: other sites please link to site A and I'll happily link to you from my B site.

That would result in lots of incoming links to site A without reciprocating those.

Does that work?

[chrisnrae]

Triangular Linking [webmasterworld.com]

[jaffstar]

Its fairly easy to see an artificial pattern like this, check out the Google touch graph to see what I mean.

[McMohan]

Agreed there are discussions done about this before, but I would like to bring it up once again, for some aspects haven't been discussed enough.

If there are 3 sites/pages A, B, C and all are on different Class-C/whois and have unique but related content and there is no closed loop or a triangle, then I don't see there is any problem.

That is to say -

I have a directory site A. As an SEO, I have a Real Estate client whose site is B, which I want to promote. Now I go about short-listing Real Estate related sites that I want to get links from to promote site B. I ask them to provide a link to site B, in return I will provide a link to them from the Real Estate page on my directory A.

So what we have here? My directory A links to site C, which has given a link to site B (my client site). Site B doesnt link to either site A or C. So this is not a closed loop.

Directory A gives links to 100s of sites, not all which link back to site B. Site C along with giving link to site B has also given links to few other sites. Site B along with getting link from site C also gets links from other sites, not all which are linked from Site A. Where is the pattern?

Put simply, it is just that few of the links my client site B has got, happened to be listed in my direcory A. Just normal.

Now please shoot me :)

Mc

I'd like you hear about your experiences first and your opininons later about this strategy

Oh sorry, forgot that. Done this with many sites. Yet to see any problem.

[jaffstar]

The magical word you mentioned was directory!.

There are tons of sites out there doing the following:

Site A (non directory) links to you in exchange for a link to site C.

Yes, site C has no outbound links , but there is a loop.

If you use a directory, I also see no problems.

[McMohan]

Site A (non directory) links to you in exchange for a link to site C.

Yes, site C has no outbound links , but there is a loop.

Can you please explain how is this a loop if the site A is not a directory?