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I wish to add reciprocal links to my sites.

Could you please advise me:
1. Which is the best place for the reciprocal links to be sited?
2. Is there any limited to the number of related topic recip. links I should add?

Thanks

Karl12347

You will need to provide more information about your setup and what you want to achieve for us provide infomation.

Thanks
Karl

digisel

ASKER

Not sure what additonal info. you need.

is it possible to have a links page rather like a site map.
if so would this be acceptable to those providing a reciprocal link?

gwkg

A links page and a site map are two different things. A site map is a page of all your internal links, not links to other web sites.

The more links that are on a link page, the less valuable each link will be. Since link pages rarely, if ever, get linked to from other websites, the value of the page is low to begin with, before diluting it with a page full of links.

Possibly a link page will be acceptable to those providing a reciprocal link, but they do not have much value.

digisel

ASKER

hi gwkg,
thanks. i take your points.

i am still puzzled about reciprocal links. without them i cannot see how sites can build up their outbound links.

yet with them there is the problem of diluting the value of one#s own site.

Also i cant see where they could be put.

your further help would be appreciated in case i am missing something. thanks

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Matt Cutts (Google Quality Control: Web Spam) has mentioned reciprocal links 89 times in his blog.

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