Moving links and/or links pages

Reorganizing resources.

[ken_b]

If it comes to a place where outbound links need to be reorganized to make maintaining them easier and easier for visitors to find and use, how does that affect the reciprical link arragements?

Let's say you have reciprical links strewn around a site, some on links pages, others placed on more or less random pages, and it needs to be tidied up a bit.

Some of the new placements will be better than the old, some might be on lower (new) PR pages.

Even though some of this might end up in better placement from a PR and traffic generation point of view, it might lead partners to think you have deleted their links.

How do you handle this to be fair to your linking partners?

[Kirby]

I left the original pages up until the new pages were indexed and showing PR. While the PR is one less than it was on the original pages, the new pages all rank page 1 for the appropriate key words and actually drive targeted traffic to these links as opposed to just giving them PR.

Some still complained, so I asked them if they wanted a lower PR, but real traffic, or I would just delete them altogether. Some people just dont get it.

[Trisha]

I'm going to have to do this soon too and have been thinking about how to do it. On one site in particular I want to move some of the links onto a different page, they really are a separate category of sites. I hadn't realized I'd end up with so many from those sites or I would have put them on a separate page to start with.

The last several of those sites I exchanged links with I told them I might move them to a different page eventually and that I may not have the time to be able to let them all know. But some of the others don't know I'm considering this at all.

I will keep them on both pages for a while, but even then, if they aren't checking their logs or looking through my site they may think their link is gone. Especially if they are using some type of automated system to check for their link.

I think there is a risk of losing some of the links to my site because of it, but it is a risk I'll have to take and hope for the best.

[ken_b]

Kirby; Leaving some of the old linksin place until the new page gets PR is a possibilty in some cases. I'd have to look carefully at that.

Trisha; Losing some links is always a possibilty.

The more I think about it, the less I like about reciprical links.

[Kirby]

>The more I think about it, the less I like about reciprical links.

lol. Recips account for less than half of my links, so if people get bent, I simply delete. Its still my site and I do what is best for me and my users. Besides, most of these recip links need me far more than I need them.

Need to be sure that ultimately you alone are the 'master of your domain'.

[eZeB]

I have the same problem -- I'm going to switch them all to PHP and include a whole bunch of other changes all in one go.

wish i had been a little more together planning things a year ago...