How do you organize reciprocal links

reciprocal, links

[drakke]

I put it like this:

Home
--- EasternUS (100 links)
--- WesternUS (100 links)
--- SourthernUS (100 links)
etc.

What if you had 1000's of links? It could get awkward.

[StoutFiles]

Sourthern?

Have a script that records links in and links out, then put the sites that you aren't contributing enough hits to at the top. If you find yourself running out of room, cut the list off, and have a link to "More Links", where you can have a huge page of all your links.

[wyweb]

What if you had 1000's of links

I wouldn't have 1000's of links.

I practice quality over quanity.

[drakke]

Of course quality is good but my question was how to oragnize if you have a lot of links.

There were several mentions here about sites with thousands of reciprocal links. I was wondering how they organizes the link pages while still keeping the number per page to 100.

One possible solution was to build pages with content and adding links to them. Like some article then links then another article and then some more links etc.

[wyweb]

There were several mentions here about sites with thousands of reciprocal links. I was wondering how they organizes the link pages while still keeping the number per page to 100.

I would guess by, and I'm just taking a wild shot here, maybe putting only 100 links per page?

Just a guess.

I will not link to, or even consider linking to, any site has multiple pages of links. I get this commonly in emails. "I've been to your site and found it worthwhile and I've put your link here:" And the page is "resources28.html"

Delete.

[drakke]

I was referring to the OP of this thread:

[webmasterworld.com...]

He has over 7200 links.

Also most sites I see have sitewide links to the 'resource' page. What if there links to differnt resource pages from different pages?

[ken_b]

drakke;

I would not get hung up on an artificial limit of 100 links per page. It might be a good enough goal, but if you end up with 90 or 110 isn't going to make a lot of difference.

The original thinking behind the 100 link limit was more related search engine crawling habits.

Passing a bit of Google PR played a part too.

The crawling thing is probably history and not worth worrying about. As far as PR passing goes, if a page has more than a few, ok maybe 20, out bounds it probably doesn't pass enough to matter.

With the right on page link structure you can easily build a page with 1,000 or more outbound links and have it be a very user friendly page.

The user friendly part is what matters most.

[ken_b]

Opps... I deleted part of my post.

Organizing:

Go with what works best for your visitors and/or pay attention to any standard organization patterns in your niche.

It might be that alphabetical, topic, or geo-location is most effective and/or most common.

[cnvi]

I get this question regularly from our clients. Our answer is always: Whatever makes the best sense for the end user. You want your links to be organized in such a way that it best benefits the end user. You do not want more than 25 per page. Pagniation is acceptable to both search engines and webmasters.