I've Pulled Hardlink Trades - You May Want To Read This

[Bill]

Google rot is affecting the whole adult arena, including some of the biggest people, and has been hitting the midsize and small linlists particularly hard.

We were discussing this in another thread.

There's not a lot of evidence that google rot is caused by "linking to bad neighborhoods", and a lot of evidence that it is caused by:

1. Heavy reciprocal linking.
2. Heavily duplicated anchor text.
3. Lack of one-way incoming links.
4. Heavy phrasing - too many related keywords on pages.
5. As well as the clear fact that by google's standards 99% of all adult sites are spam, because they are affiliate sites whose primary purpose is to drive traffic to sponsors.

The whole form and structure of the midsized or small linklist is just begging to be google-rotted.

But betraying each other because we want to preserve our income is going to fuck us all in the end, because it's not like we don't all want to preserve our income. We're all here to make a profit. If one starts because google is shitting on everybody these days, why should anybody honor their trades?

There has to be a more effective solution, or at least a compromise.

[jennym]

Bill - I agree with all 5 of the things you posted. I have been trying to address those exact things on my pages recently. The issue I have is that a lot of people consider this all a "bunch of BS". Which, to me, means that they will not do ANYTHING to try to "fix" the problems on their sites. I am just trying to better my site. Like I said, I am trying to see where other people stand on this as well. Not really getting much of a "discussion" though.

[plateman]

personally I think that the algo needs to be adjusted for adult sites and I hope in the coming months that it will be

I have been doing things to make my site better for google bot

and I too am gonna look at my trades next as I have trades on my index and trades on my main page

[pornhitzman]

Should we keep trades with categories that are listed in the supplemental index?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by pornhitzman

Should we keep trades with categories that are listed in the supplemental index?

Certainly not! Dump them ASAP. You do NOT want to be associated with such scum.

Here are the golden rules of link trading, which you should all live by:
1. Never trade links with any page which doesn't appear in the first five results of a site:domain.com search.

2. Avoid link trades with domains which have a poor consonant:vowel ratio. Less than 3:1 is considered a questionable ratio by Google.

3. Domains with more than two consecutive vowels are improperly discriminated against by Google. (They are working on this, but for now, you shouldn't trade links with such domains.)

4. Google hates foreigners, and music by the band Foreigner, with the exception of Hot Blooded, though I don't know how that will help.

5. Any site with any page listed as supplemental is to be avoided, EVEN IF they appear to rank very well for quality search terms.

6. Avoid trading links with sites with a lower Alexa ranking than you.

7. Always trade links with domains whose index Page Rank, when added to yours, will be a combined total of "10." (Pay very close attention to this rule and verify the consistency of your trades' PR weekly.)

[pornhitzman]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Certainly not! Dump them ASAP. You do NOT want to be associated with such scum.

Here are the golden rules of link trading, which you should all live by:
1. Never trade links with any page which doesn't appear in the first five results of a site:domain.com search.

2. Avoid link trades with domains which have a poor consonant:vowel ratio. Less than 3:1 is considered a questionable ratio by Google.

3. Domains with more than two consecutive vowels are improperly discriminated against by Google. (They are working on this, but for now, you shouldn't trade links with such domains.)

4. Google hates foreigners, and music by the band Foreigner, with the exception of Hot Blooded, though I don't know how that will help.

5. Any site with any page listed as supplemental is to be avoided, EVEN IF they appear to rank very well for quality search terms.

6. Avoid trading links with sites with a lower Alexa ranking than you.

7. Always trade links with domains whose index Page Rank, when added to yours, will be a combined total of "10." (Pay very close attention to this rule and verify the consistency of your trades' PR weekly.)

You should know that supplemental pages do not rank at all for quality search terms or hardly any terms at all. That's because they are in the supplemental index and not the main index.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by pornhitzman

You should know that supplemental pages do not rank at all for quality search terms or hardly any terms at all. That's because they are in the supplemental index and not the main index.

You should know that Google doesn't really like the song Hot Blooded.

[plateman]

Originally Posted by pornhitzman

You should know that supplemental pages do not rank at all for quality search terms or hardly any terms at all. That's because they are in the supplemental index and not the main index.

look at all the sites in the main index that dont get any traffic from google

pornhitzman if you think my LL is a risk to your site, pull my links and that we be fine

[Useless]

I truly enjoy watching people and their knee-jerk reactions to things they cannot possibly quantify. This makes me respect circle jerk TGP owners who bypassed all this nonsense. No need to worry about those pesky and uncooperative search engines.

Preacher created this topic to warn about links he chose to pull due to dead and abandoned sites, not SE voodoo. He has asked me why I don't pursue link trades since I so obviously have very few on my sites. Now he knows why: my fellow webmasters are crazy. I'll stick with whatever the SEs trickle my way and play with purchased traffic, thank you very much.