Are you actively building your reciprocal link campaign but not seeing the results show up in the search engines? Here are a few tricks webmasters are using to cheat you out of your reciprocal link count.
The robots.txt file -- This file controls access to the search engines and directories within your site. Some webmasters are blocking the link directory they are building with the robot file what this does is allow them to build extra page rank. How does it build page rank? Google counts incoming links To the sites as "extra page rank" if you are building links That point to other domains you are sending them small amounts of page rank from your page but not receiving the page rank in return. A quick check to see if the page your url is on is being blocked would Be to examine the robots.txt file.
You can do this by typing...
www.e-axis-inc.com/robots.txt
www.anydomainname.com/robots.txt
.. as you can see e-axis-inc.com does not block any directories within its site. This ensures that all reciprocal link and all pages are spider'd by the search engines.
Following up your link campaign
After about 4 weeks, check all of your link partners to see if they have modified your link or blocked the search engines.
Another Great Link Strategy to Speed things up As you build more and more link partners, some are updated More frequently than others by the major search engines. Go to the page where your link is on your link partners
Copy the URL, down to a list in a document. Next you want to use a free service to submit your Partners pages to the search engine, J this is a rapid way to ensure your links start to show up online.
A second way to validate the quality of a link partner Is to use a free site spider service to see if you are able to view the page properly "like a search engine would" you can find a tool that will do this for you at: www.instantposition.com its completely free just register your email and start submitting your partners pages to the major search engines.
posted by Jen @ 5:04 AM
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