Things Not To Do!

                              Things Not To Do!

Setting up 10 sites on similar topics is a good idea but vary the links, the byte size of the pages and store them on several different hosting companies.Traffic patterns are also analyzed and used as a filter or booster.Never place a link on your own site for the sole purpose of trading link popularity.

Mention something that you like on their site.But if you kindly explain that what they are doing is actually giving their site a penalty and hurting their findability, the links come down pretty fast.Don't participate in programs that send out emails soliciting people to swap links (link spamming).Discuss one of their products.Don't solicit sites that have their reciprocal links pages so deep in the site it's difficult to find.Keep your link directories clean of 404s or dead links.When done properly, you can set up a very effective cluster and really boost your rankings.The Reputation must match the Topic.The trick is to build your own mini net without setting off any filters.Ask them a question.Give the URL for their links page.

Don't participate in link popularity farms.Tell people to LINK OFF.Simply put Reputation is what a page is known for.If what the links say do not match the topic of my page, the search engine gives the page containing the link a penalty.Do ANYTHING to make it clear that this is a personal request and not a mass-generated email.Create your link directory to be tightly themed.Turns out my marketing site was also known for wicker furniture and adult chat among other things.The actual content of a page.Make each email personal.Only place links that are valuable to your readers.Usually you cannot make people remove incoming links, unless they are infringing on some kind of patent.Using bulk submission programs won't increase your link popularity either.The worst possible thing is to set up 10 sites on the same IP address and then link them together exactly the same way.These need to be stand-alone sites that are full of valuable content.What they are doing is building the reputation of my page with what they say in their outgoing links.What incoming links say the page is about.We both ended up getting penalized.The link will actually hurt your site, not help it.Never try to get low-integrity Web sites to link to you.Remember to create added value to both the engines and your users in these mini net sites.Yes, it's really odd.Topic is what the page is really about.Never send out a blanket email to hundreds of sites asking for a reciprocal link.Be careful about who YOU link to.Just like with the search engines,If you're not in the Top 10 you're Cyber-Road Kill.If you have trouble finding the pages, so will the spiders.Don't apply to sites that have hundreds of links on one page.The problem was their links didn't make sense as they were totally off topic.The only way to do that is not copy what you've already done, but start each site from scratch.Don't submit to FFA (Free for All sites or join link exchange programs or farms.Stay out of bad neighborhoods.DO NOT include directory listings unless they match the themes or subjects of your Web site.Yes, a couple of sites thought it would be a good idea to link to me, just because I do well in the search engines.