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Over and done with?
All done all through?
If recip links are part of the changes it is much more complex - possibly to do with the proportion of recip to one way links OUT.
The Contractor - the aggressive reciprocal linkers in my area definately HAVEN'T been caught out.
What does affect things, is broken links within the site, preventing the robots from scanning the site properly.
Thanks for the info.
<<< Do you think the site I advertised on will give me an extra month? ;) >>>
If you've found someone who charges for links, that is still bothered by guilt and principles, then that is indeed something to share -- I guess you can always ask though!
BTW I'm joking; just in case someone wants to nail me to the wall for this statement ;))
<<< one thing I have noticed is more link request for clients sites are coming in where the SEO company is offering the recp link back from a directory they control so in theory setting up one way links - so maybe this is the way forward if you are doing SEO work for clients is to build a directory and set up the recp link back from your directory? >>>
Yes, I've seen this lot. These are mostly sites with a few pages of content (usually about computer certification), but with hundreds of pages of links.
I don't know about the way forward though. You give their client a direct and tightly themed link from your related site, and in return you get a lame link from just another directory. To me, this is so one-sided that it's insulting, and such cloaked directories should be regarded as link farms.
Perhaps not black-hat, but it does prey on the gullible -- you just check back after a month or two, and that great PR5 link you thought you had is now at the bottom of a page with 200 other links, diluting your PR share to nothing. By contrast, their client still has the good one-way from your site.
You'll never get an email response if you try to query this either, as they've moved on to other clients and couldn't care less about a campaign they did 2 months earlier. In fact, email addresses are often set up on a per-client basis and are then deleted once the campaign is over.
Most of these types of link requests we've received over the past 12 months have been from SEO companies based in India.
<edit> I am sure there are those who do this ethically, but my comments are based on my experience, having received several hundred such requests during the past 12 months.
[edited by: LegalAlien at 4:24 pm (utc) on Nov. 13, 2005]
yep thats the crowd
I've been reluctant to do that because of all the problems I've read about here at WW. I saw GG or MC post that it would probably be better to wait a couple of months until they fix that code.
How risky is it?
I have worked with many people/companies in India.
(I am not targeting them as I have many good friends there)
The quality of work from 95% of those I have tested out is terrible. They copy content from other sites and claim to write their own unique content, they are copy replace professionals, this leads to Google penalties for sure, I would know.
Be cautious whom you hire there.
