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I am a bit confused, however, about whether or not to purchase link-building software. Some of you think these programs can help, others advise against it.
I run a website that has a pagerank of 6 and includes a directory of links (called /links/). I have a cross linking submission page with a form (called "link swap!") and I organize the form submissions strictly according to category. All categories relate to the central theme of the site.
We delete all submissions that are miscategorized, misleading, or do not come through the form.
We limit the number of links per page to 25.
We do not actively pursue links, but only link back to partners. Instead, we focus our attention on creating quality content throughout the rest of the site.
Questions:
1) Overall, does this sound like a decent link strategy?
2) Could a link building program (like Arelis or Zeus) assist in a way that won't be flagged as spam? Would it be wise to use a program to find appropriate partners (if we choose to become more pro-active) and manage responses? These programs all claim to save countless hours normally spent researching and updating spreadsheets.
3) Should I retitle the "link swap" submission page and change the name of the /link/ directory?
Again, thanks for your help. After reading many, many threads, I feel as if I know many of you.
We limit the number of links per page to 25.
Sounds Good.
We delete all submissions that are miscategorized, misleading, or do not come through the form.
You should!
Should I retitle the "link swap" submission page and change the name of the /link/ directory?
Remove the word *link*
Buy software or stick to our own spreadsheets?
You should use software to manage/categorize links, not to get links. Some software *could* get you into trouble.
I use Zeus. I have had my share of discussion at other forums, but since I don't sell it, or make money out of it, I believe I can be pretty objective about it. It has been a timesaver for me. I do use it very responsibly, visit all sites to make sure they are quality sites, write my own personalized emails to each webmaster, etc.
I have not being penalized, banned or anything like that for properly using the program. I, of course, customized as much as I could and removed any indications of the Zeus "cookie cutter" directories that are still around.
My homepage PR went from 4 to 5, and most of my content pages inside are PR4. My directory is PR4 as well. I have 563, reciprocal links of sites related to my themes, and I check reciprocity at random and quarterly using the Z robot. In my opinion, it has worked for me.
My homepage PR went from 4 to 5, and most of my content pages inside are PR4. My directory is PR4 as well. I have 563, reciprocal links of sites related to my themes, and I check reciprocity at random and quarterly using the Z robot. In my opinion, it has worked for me.
Sorry to say, but your day will come!
Appreciate your concern, but I beg to differ very strongly....did you even take the time to visit my site, my directory, and my link partners? See if you find any link farms or any shaddy sites between my partners...otherwise, a generalization for the pure sake of a generalization is not an objective way to support a position. There are plenty of succesful Zeus directories on the net that indicate differently.
See if you find any link farms or any shaddy sites between my partners
I don't believe it's your partners or sites , rather the unique code that this software generates.
I was reading up on and old forum here and found the following:
a recent inspection of sites in the zeus collective showed about 80% of them to be PR0. (I just scanned the top sites in various sorts of the collective.) In some cases, the PR0 hit just the directory, in other cases it affected the site as a whole.
Also, let us not forget what google has to say about this:
Do Not Participate in link exchanges for the sole purpose of increasing your ranking in search engines.
