reciprocal llinks

[new2this]

I have a new website and I wanted to generate some links to my website I ran across this website that for a certain price every month they could point links to my website from their total amount of members I checked out a few of the memebers websites and they hand nice PR's plus they all had a large amount of links is this something I should do or would google penalize my website for this

[whoisgregg]

From Google's Webmaster Guidelines [google.com]:

Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

What you've described seems to be one of those "link schemes" to a "bad neighborhood." (I judge this solely on the basis that they charge to link to you.)

[kaylowe]

Remember, only the PR of the page your link is on counts! Home page may be PR7, but, if the links page where your link is is lower, that is what will count.

At least that's how I understand it.

Kay

[new2this]

how do I go about building links for my website I mean whats the best way to get started

[PatrickDeese]

>how do I go about building links for my website I mean whats the best way to get started

You might try reading the Link Development Forum [webmasterworld.com].

[new2this]

if buying links will get you banned then how is it that these websites participate in google ad words and appear at the top of their search with PR as high as 6 and you're saying that by participating or buying links will get you banned from google when its google that indexed these websites to begin with I dont understand

[Orbite]

how do I go about building links for my website I mean whats the best way to get started

Content! Original, reliable, pertinent content.

Most website's creator neglect to produce good content. If you want your website to be visited often, to be cited by many other websites, to be recognized as essential, to score a big PageRank, create content. Don't be obsessed by links. Links can be content, but usually they are only that: links to content.

The hardest, time consumming, fondamental work to be done on a website is to display content. Without substance, a website is useless, an empty shell. Buying links won't compensate for lack of content.

With good content, links will follow. Users aglomerate where content is. They sought content, not links. You'll receive proposition for reciprocal links in proportion to the seductiveness of your content.

Content...content...content...content...

[whoisgregg]

you're saying that by participating or buying links will get you banned

No one has said this. All I shared was Google's guidelines and my interpretation of any "pay us and we'll send you some high PR links from our network" service.

If what they offer would boost your site in the SERPs then Google will frown upon you using this service (and the company offering the service) because, naturally, Google wants to be in control of it's own site -- just like any site owner.

There's an entire forum dedicated to discussing the intricate details of Google, but this general advice will always hold true: If you're doing something specifically to "cheat the system" know that the system doesn't want you cheating and, if caught, the system will surely punish you.

[netscan]

I agree with the content whole heartedly. I've been plugging away on my site for about 7 months building up to about 1k hits a day, then on wednesday I just happened upon a really useful story, wrote about it and BOOM! 60k hits in 2 days.

Now I just need to find a way to keep that big a** ball rolling...

Useful content = useful links

[new2this]

thanks guys for the great information now I know where to get started and how to go about doing it the right way thanks again.

[jefuchs]

I've been getting mail from sites that are obviously using some sort of mass-linking software. They contact me and tell me they've linked to my site, and ask me to return the favor. I go to their link page, and it is full of links that have nothing to do with the content of their site. The link page is buried where their readers won't find it, yet they want me to put their link on my front page. I'm still a newbie, but I could see this for a scam.

[netscan]

I never link to anyone using an "email generator" to send me a link request. If it's a hand written well thought out email, and the site is relevant to mine, I'll link, but if they are just using a link spam service, to the trash it goes!