Read an article yesterday on G00gle devaluing exchanged links

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Originally Posted by RedCherry

I don't think I will go back to category recips because I plan on splitting my categories up over time, and I also want to do the same thing to xxxporntastic I did to trc, put all my categories on the base domain on keyword pages.

I'm also going to to change the text for my recips often, so when people grab new recips, I end up with a lot of different keywords pointing to my sites, and not the same anchor text over and over again. But you all are right, I'm never going to get rid of recips entirely, and they do bring a lot of the traffic.

I've never asked for category recips, some give them to me anyways when they do custom recips and that's OK, but I don't think I'd want everyone doing it. I think surfers are less likely to bookmark a category page and I have less to sell to them there.