Any of you guys want to exchange links?

[com]

Hey guys, i was wondering, do any of you want to exchange links with my domain seller site at domainArrow.com? I am planning active advertisement (no spam, hate that crap) and get a few visitors going, might be a benefitial thing to both you and i if we link. Let me know. thanks.

[system0]

id be interested - pm me your details - description etc

[unclewilco]

i have a links section on www.nameyet.com

http://www.alttag.co.uk/domains/index.cfm?doit=tools

PM if you are intrested..

wilco

[lgolding]

great idea. need to step it up across all of our sites, do you all think the following might work?..
A little better than a webring, to automate the process a bit.
To make it easy and encourage cross linking between many, how bout somebody (I) set up a form page or some script where DNF'ers can submit your script/logo/description/thier link page url, and submit to a list of others of us, that then emails all of us on the list that a new 'member' has joined so we can grab his link code to put it on our link page. Then we just check on eachother to see if the links are still there?

Related, development idea, need help: I wanted to write a php 'submit a link' script that enforces real linking back, that periodically crontabs out a search to all of the listed members sites via thier listed link page url to look for the linkback text, and if not found, sends the listed webmaster an email notice, flags them with one strike. If not fixed, when it does the rounds again, and on 3 strikes, it drops thier link, rewriting the html link page automatically. Totally automated. Of course on their submit of a new site link, it emials you to approve it or not. Thoughts?

[system0]

good place for your php question http://forums.devshed.com/f5/s

[MarkyMark]

You are welcome to join my website www.GoTop.com. We have 350 active webmasters trading links through us.

It is semi automated and free, you will easily find hundreds of active link partners with a minimum of effort and I even have a special category just for domain name oriented websites

You dont want to join fully automated link exchanges since they will be spotted by google and you stand the significant risk of being banned/punished.

I hope I will not be "moderated" for pushing my services since this thread is right down the alley of my website, and it is free to join...

[lgolding]

markymark
thanks, I'll take a look.
But if were interested in google, then any links we put on our domain name sites must be only about domain name sites. That is why this thread had good potential, to allow a focused subject to link to each other to reinforce the 'importance' of our subject matter.

You are right about automated link exchanges hurting, but random subject link exchanges hurt much more. But automated linking is not what I had in mind. What I wanted to do was still completley manual to request/review/approve and post a link to a site, still cut and paste of the link info. SO there is nothing for a SE to see but a good manual html resource page of outbound links with descriptions of relevant sites. What IS automated is the policing to see if the links are all recip, and if and when they drop your link from their site, then you drop their link from yours. That script would be hidden from the SE's so there is noting for a SE not to like. Just a management thing, I know I never have time to surf around to check all the inbound links. Also when I find inbound links to me that are from sites highly unrelated to domain names, I request it be removed, humbly. That can really hurt with Google. I offer to put up their link on another site or two of mine as a gesture of thanks.

fonzerelli_79
thanks, posted for help there, well see if there is not already something out there that does this.

Regards,
LG

[lgolding]

marky
I just took a look, nice.....consider this.
If you are doing sort of the free for all link subject stuff, or any linking for that matter, then it is very important to have those that posted links at your site to actually put the links up at their site, or they are just feeding off of you. That is the old problem with ffa pages, they dump a link on you and leave.

I know your site does better becasue of the community feel, categories and promotion of contacing eachother, good stuff. but ever wonder who is out there not playing by the rules, not a recip? That is what I wanted to bust.

But to the point for what you are doing;. To make it easy for webmasters to grab the links, and actually put them up at thier site, I had a script that does this, so do some others: On submission of a link I present back to the webmaster a text list of all of the html of all of the liks in that caterogy they just submitted to, minus thiers, for them to cut and past out of the form into thier link page html, instant and NO excuses for not doing it. And that helps ALL of the poeple in that category the way a ffa is supposed to, but in this case because it is subject specific it will be more effective for Google and others. They could then pluck out and trash the ones they don't like or are not really the right subject. Think about making it real easy for them to copy the link page some way, then later we can police them with my script I am trying to do here to see if they are still up and not siphoning the popularity out of your website.

LG

[TexasFilly]

All webmasters feel free too add your site link to our link directory..

here's the direct link to the directory:

http://www.sitetutor.net/modules.php...Link&s=&menu=9

[MarkyMark]

To clear up some things:

1. Google will never punish your website because some other site is linking to it (this would mean you could get rid of competitors by linking to them from "inappropriate websites", which is of course not the case). Bottomline: Google will not hurt you for factors outside of your control.

2. Google may decide that you are participating in a "link farm" service with automated link generation. You may then get punished and excluded from Google result pages. This is beacuse Google will find links on your page that indicates participation in link farms.

3. My website www.GoTop.com does generate a HTML code (to cut and paste into your own page) of the website that finds your site in the GoTop directory. But this is done once for every request. This is as far as we will go in automation. More than this (several links in a large chunk of HTML code) will cause a lot of identical pages on the Internet, suggesting a "link farm", - not good.

4. I know from personal experience that a link from a page with a different subject (e.g. a gambling site linking to a domain site) than yours can be very valuable. Some SEOs speculate that a link from a similiar site is more valuable (the idea of theming). This may be true, but I'm quite sure that all links are good (or at least not bad).

5. Having a system to bulk check if people are maintaining the link to your website is excellent. I recommend it. The GoTop system does not do this for our members, but there are commercial software as well as free for all scripts out there doing this. I would recommend a manual check before you delete someone though.