Link Trading Q

[SaucyPanties]

Not sure I follow what your talking about, but Google accepts that you have no control what links to you but when you link outwards you have total control so select wisely and avoid the grey google blocked cheaters, link to one of them and you will suffer...

Sue

[Kinky]

I don't think you will be losing out on anything... depends on who's opinion you are asking for as people have different theories on link trading... I would think it would be good to have a link from the category page because you get a relevent one way link to your site which SEs like to see... the PR transfered depends on a few things but I believe one of the big ones is how many outgoing links the page that is linking to you has... and some pretty big sites have no index trades they use their main pages for trades

[Bill]

In _theory_, theme to theme (that is, for example, an asian page linked to an asian page) is the stronger...

In practice, it's hard to tell.

In theory, google, as an example SE, in "downgrading" index-to-index trades.

In practice, it's very hard to point to any evidence that is actually true.

Your best bet is to mix it up and try to set up some of both.

[JoeBlack]

Originally Posted by Bill

In _theory_, theme to theme (that is, for example, an asian page linked to an asian page) is the stronger...

In practice, it's hard to tell.

In theory, google, as an example SE, in "downgrading" index-to-index trades.

In practice, it's very hard to point to any evidence that is actually true.

Your best bet is to mix it up and try to set up some of both.

Thanks Bill for your help. I think I will just have to try and mix it up as you suggested. I might also do a small test on 2 of my other niche sites to see how it goes.

"Google needs to pick a theory and stick with it"

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by JoeBlack

"Google needs to pick a theory and stick with it"

if they did that the only people getting any traffic would be cheaters and scammers

[JoeBlack]

Originally Posted by kinky

I believe one of the big ones is how many outgoing links the page that is linking to you has...

That is a very good point that I over looked. Thanks for your imput.

[JoeBlack]

Originally Posted by SaucyPanties

Not sure I follow what your talking about, but Google accepts that you have no control what links to you but when you link outwards you have total control so select wisely and avoid the grey google blocked cheaters, link to one of them and you will suffer...

Sue

Sorry SaucyPanties if I wasn't clear enough, but I think you may have misunderstood me.

Although I knew the general imformation you stated its good to those who didn't so thanks anyway.