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I fear deleting them because if about a 3rd of my webpages were deleted overnight how will the SE's take that as my site being broken.
All the link trades are loosely within the same industry, but will having so many pages not tightly themed be setting me back with my rankings?
What have you done this year? Do you beleive in the link trade system and use it? Are you backing out of the link trade circuit and deleting pages? Or have you never used them to gain SE popularity?
1) Google is counting the links from my affiliate program. Location of those links on the sites seem to be really good, which could also be why they are counting it.
2) One of my link partners has a link page quite literally a mile long. Yet G is still counting it as a quality link.
3) I have a few links out there that I figured they would for sure show up... but they aren't there. Yes those are link partners too.
The only difference between #2 and #3, that I can come up with is, the age of the overall site thats linking out.
The site in #2 has been around forever, while the site in #3 is fairly new... but I've got my text link on their front page, surrounded by text. I even tried to check for no follows, and everything... but can't seem to come up with why in the heck i'm not getting good credit for it. That site is also very closely related to my niche.
So it almost looks like you can still get good credit for a link exchange, but the site has to have been around a while.
OR
Google simply doesn't show you ALL the quality links.
OR
Google doesn't exactly show you the quality links... it only shows you a sample of whats coming in... good ones and bad ones. But obviously not everything.
Google is counting the links from my affiliate program.
My understanding is that whatever shows (or doesn't show) in the Google backlink search is separate from what Google counts (or doesn't count) when ranking a site. I don't recommend using the Google backlink search as an SEO tool. That's not what it is.
Coming back to the original question, extensive link pages do elicit negative physical responses from search engine employees; their faces usually pucker, as if they'd just sucked a lime. So if you're going to believe body language, there you go. ;)
If your site is banned, I know for a fact that you will never pass a hand check with something like that hanging from the back of your website.
Otoh, if your site is ranking well as it is, it's often a best policy to not fix what isn't broken. If your site should happen to suffer a drop in rankings that persists for over three months, then you might want to consider revisiting this issue.
;)
My bet; try to do a Y with "linkdomain", I find this much more trustworthy; also, try to get "references" to compare with, after all, the data you get is nothing but an index, not an absolute value.
I fear deleting them because if about a 3rd of my webpages were deleted overnight how will the SE's take that as my site being broken.
If this is the case, you should consider adding more content to the topic that you are about.
If you are considering removing them, perhaps the safest was would be:
Filter out first by genre or relevance
Then filter by age, quality of link given to you.
This way you are linking with the best websites and ones that your visitors will be interested in.
