Reciprocal Links for directory link submissions?

Lynne Level 1

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September 25, 2016, 4:52 am

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Reciprocal Links for directory link submissions?

I have decided to work on my link building and now I have some questions.

I purchased an awesome list of 3000+ best free SEO backlinks sites a while back and I have decided to now start working through this list.

The problem I have encountered now is that a lot of these sites ask for reciprocal links and this makes me a little edgy and I wonder how do I go about this? Can anyone please explain to me the best way to do this?

I am not 100% comfortable adding links all over my websites. I don't know where to put them. Yes probably a stupid question, I know, but I am new to link building and in the past when I have hit this problem I have just left that website.

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RaduV

You have to be very carefully with this directories. To my knowledge, Google doesn't like them very much because they usually, attract shady links. If I remember well they were considered farm links and their input in ranking and creating authority is minimum.

Instead of directory link submission you might want to find 50 powerfull blogs in your niche and start developing your authority through them. Start commenting daily to their articles, be on topic, develop a friendship with the blog owner and you will benefit much more than from the directories.

Links from directories are static, don't bring any value to you and if the directory is listed as spammy it might hurt your rankings. From blog commenting, you can get authority on some keywords(if the owner allows you to post links with anchors) and traffic.

As long as you keep it professional and on topic your links are, usually approved and visible within the comment.

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Lynne

Ok very interesting.What about directories that require a payment? Surely these won't be full of spammy links since nobody that spams will be interested in paying right?

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RaduV

That might work but considering the amount of "link juice" you are getting from them is insignificant i wouldn't consider them in my SEO Strategy.

But hey, this is just me. You can apply every method you seem fit for your website.

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anwebservices

Hello Lynne.
Yeah i know it can be confusing to add so many links on your blog. I also would love to hear other's suggestions, but what i would do in this case is:
If link is really high authority and worth exchanging, like there is many, i would probably create post or page called "recommended links" (or something like that) then keep adding these links to the same post. Maybe even page which should not me linked from menu or anywhere else. Also don't forget to set links rel=nofollow (if they not insisting on dofollow links).

This is my idea on first thought which could solve your problem...

Kind regards,
ANWEBSERVICES

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Lynne

Thanks Abid, yes that is what I was thinking of, creating a page just for all these links but I was wondering where to put it LOL.

Would I then mark that page to not be indexed by Google or what? I mean if I have a page with just links on it surely Google will not like that?

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I guess it would be fine to set your "meta=noindex" for that page and not link it from your menu or articles. Reciprocal link checkers wouldn't probably refuse your reciprocal link application in that case.

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Do you think it would be damaging if I left that page to be indexed by Google?

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