Backlinks are one of the biggest factor which effects SEO. Back-Linking can be inbound links, outbound links, backlinks or reciprocal links. If you want to take advantages of these links you need to use them properly. If you won’t use linking effectively, it might give negative effects to your blog. Check out these articles to get more information about different kind of linking and how to use them efficiently:
- Benefits of Link Building
- Link building tips for your blog
- Benefits and Tips for Outbound links
- Backlink Strategies for Getting High PR
Apart from outbound links, internal links and backlinks benefits, we should not ignore reciprocal Links for pleasing search engines and driving huge traffic to our blogs.
Reciprocal links are the links which bind two or more than two websites, directly or indirectly. There can be many kind of reciprocal links. For example, blog A is linked to blog B and blog B is linked to blog C.
There is a myth that reciprocal linking is not effectively for search engines and to drive traffic. But we can see in above diagram that getting direct or indirect linking will surely help you to generate traffic and thus chances will increase to get high rank in search engines.
Here are few things you can do for getting reciprocal links:
- Try to target social networking website, explore blogs relevant to your niche.
- Mail fellow bloggers for exchanging links and blog rolls.
- Target directories and forums
- Write guest posts and get active with comments (do follow blogs would be great)
The easiest way to get reciprocal links is by exchanging links and blog rolls. You might get good results slowly from forums and web directories. Make sure that you don’t spam and link to only quality blogs.
What is your insight for reciprocal links? Are they worth applying for your blog?
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Thanks Ruchi for the cool tips.
Links from Social networking sites are not reciprocal Ruchi.
It is only when you interlink two different sites or blogs it is considered as reciprocal.
Anyways reciprocal links was a very easy way to get backlinks but now it is frowned upon of it is of not the same niche. Relevancy matters a lot.
Thanks for this nice article
@ NpXp, I wrote that Social networking websites are useful to find relevant blogs to build reciprocal links. It doesn’t mean that links from social networking websites are reciprocal links. I hope you got my point now.
Glad you like it Anish.
Thanks..dis is really helpful
@ Anish, @ Vishal
Glad you found it useful.
I had submitted few articles in eZineArticles in the month of feb. 2010. But I got a good number of visitors only from last one month from eZineArticles. So, I do agree with you that it may take time in some cases to get traffic from backlinks. Having patience is the key
That’s good Techno-pulse, Many bloggers feel that they are not getting results fast and thus stop using reciprocal links. Patience is really important while blogging.
Cool tips! Really informative as I am not very familiar with SEO these kinda articles will help me out!
Do try out the tips Chirag, I am sure it will provide you great results.
Hi this is a good article about SEO. Here I would like to add one more point about relevancy.
If your back-links are not relevant to your content then there is no meaning of link building because its effect goes down.
Agree with you Rituraj, Only quality links are worth for SEO.
good post, nice diagram in this post it tells well about linking the site. yes link building is very important in SEO, the big strength is backlinks, so bloggers need to improve thier backlinks this will give good result in search engines
Glad you like it Fareed.
Backlinks do play major role in SEO.
Thanks!
Seems very helpful!
Really, What I thought was that reciprocal linking is not good for SEO, and that’s why i discouraged much link exchanges. Thanks for helping me to get rid off this misunderstanding
@ Swapnil, @ Rajeel, Glad you found the article useful
I really want to know how to search good site for reciprocal links by keywords, and that makes me crazy
Hey Vkamobi, Don’t go for complicated methods just use Google and twitter search , you will surely get few good blogs.