Backlink Question - its friday

Hi Alan, moved you over to the SEO forum

Do you mean you are being asked for reciprocal links? ie you link to me and i'll link to you?

in reply ,yes reciprocal links sounds about right,for the free listings i,m being asked to do them a return favour by back linking to them ,ive done over a hundred and fifty submissions so it would be nice to find a quick and easy way to return the favour
cheers for the correspondence
1 good thing about all this web work is that my typing has improved ,got any plans for the long weekend?
ive got a farmers market on sat and sun and then hopefully chill a little with the family on monday
alan out for now.

Traditionally, most people used to use a "links" page, basically an extra page on your site, and simply listing lots of links.

But to be honest this is a pretty outmoded way of doing things. Reciprocal links, you link to me if you link back carry little weight these days with the search engines.

The reason we obtain links is to try and get better results on the search engine results, and google sees links as a currency of authority. If lots of people link to your site, then you have content worth seeing, and you get decent rankings.

If to get a link to your site, you have to link back, lowers the value considerably of the link. Better to have some good content and generate links naturally, or via things like forums, articles etc.

The holy grail of links is on the home page, so I wouldn't put lots of other peoples links on your home page unless you think you are getting something out of it (decent page rank, anchor text etc).

Dunno if that helps or causes more confusion

Bankholiday wise, bit of packing and planning as we're off on our hols next week.. woo hoo

Enjoy your day off Monday!

yep thats clarified things a bit
thats why they call it a web -the more links the quicker the spider can get to the middle and catch the fly?
have fun on your hols - if you need any sun care advise just ask ,i lived in the canaries for 15 years and alongside cheffing and sharpening i sold suncream especially to kids ,fair skinned folk and people with sensitive skin ,fingers crossed for the weather and remember theres only ever one winner with the sun...alan

Steve, hope you had a great holiday!

Cris

Thanks Cris, most certainly did
http://www.mylocalforums.com/take-break/1091-steves-his-hols.html#post6117

Just to open this topic up again. Can anyone recommend a really accurate Backlink checker checker. Don't mind paying a bit. I find big disparity in the free ones.

Although it disapeared for a while, google webmaster tools now seems to be reporting all of our links. It includes the dross with the good, but it's what I currently use.

Steve. It's showing in our webmaster. But I wanted to verify against something else that is accurate. There is no way of me knowing how accurate it is!

Ryan