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ecchi · 2004-05-06, 01:45 PM

RE : "from a seo point of view wouldn't it be better with 20 text recips on one page than 5 pages with four each."

No, most SEs do not consider links from pages with more than 10 external links to be of much value, and even if they are less than ten many give a higher relevance the less links there are. This is why you will often see TGP WMs insisting on no more than four (or sometimes three) TGP links on a gallery.

One thing that most TGP WMs miss is that links on a gallery page do not count for much, but links on a menu page of a site count a lot higher. If the engine is spider based (eg Google) it tells the difference by internal links to html pages (if you have these you are a site, but if you link direct to jpgs you are a gallery). This means that if the TGP WM insist that pictures must not be on html pages (i.e. you must link directly to the picture) he is pretty much wasting your time asking for a recip, it will have little or no effect on your SE ranking. Worse, I have been told (but so far seen no proof) that some SEs will give you a MUCH LOWER ranking if a substantial number of your external links (i.e. gallery listings) go to pages where the pictures are not on html pages.

If you run a TGP site and you want good SE ranking you should ideally insist on all pictures being on html pages, however this will probably loose you a lot of posters, so perhaps you are better off offering better listing to galleries with pictures on html pages, which will encourage a posters to do this but will not alienate those who don't want to.

2004-05-06, 01:45 PM	#3
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	RE : "from a seo point of view wouldn't it be better with 20 text recips on one page than 5 pages with four each." No, most SEs do not consider links from pages with more than 10 external links to be of much value, and even if they are less than ten many give a higher relevance the less links there are. This is why you will often see TGP WMs insisting on no more than four (or sometimes three) TGP links on a gallery. One thing that most TGP WMs miss is that links on a gallery page do not count for much, but links on a menu page of a site count a lot higher. If the engine is spider based (eg Google) it tells the difference by internal links to html pages (if you have these you are a site, but if you link direct to jpgs you are a gallery). This means that if the TGP WM insist that pictures must not be on html pages (i.e. you must link directly to the picture) he is pretty much wasting your time asking for a recip, it will have little or no effect on your SE ranking. Worse, I have been told (but so far seen no proof) that some SEs will give you a MUCH LOWER ranking if a substantial number of your external links (i.e. gallery listings) go to pages where the pictures are not on html pages. If you run a TGP site and you want good SE ranking you should ideally insist on all pictures being on html pages, however this will probably loose you a lot of posters, so perhaps you are better off offering better listing to galleries with pictures on html pages, which will encourage a posters to do this but will not alienate those who don't want to.