Reciprocal Backlinks-A way of Quality Backlink exchange

There has been much discussion in these last few months about reciprocal linking. In the latest update, reciprocal links were one of the targets of the search engine's latest filter. As a matter of fact, many webmasters had also agreed upon reciprocal link exchanges that had resulted in boosting their site's rankings with the sheer number of inbound links.

In a quality backlink exchange campaign, one webmaster places a link on his website that points to another webmasters website, and vice versa. But it was found that many of these links were simply not relevant, and were just discounted. So while the irrelevant inbound link was ignored, the outbound links still got counted. As a result the relevance score got diluted, impacting the scorecard of some of the most popular websites on the search engines. This caused a great many websites to drop off the Google map.

This exercise teaches us that all of us (the webmaster’s fraternity) must be careful with our reciprocal links. This tells us that attaining reciprocal links should not be our goal. Instead we should work on acquiring quality backlinks for our websites. The search engines these days are scanning each entry with a vigilant eye, which could mean that one bad apple can rotten your pie.

In order to get set into this changed format, we should begin choosing our backlinks carefully, keeping the search engines algorithm in mind everytime. By choosing only relevant sites to link with, and sites that don't have tons of outbound links on a page, or sites that don't practice black-hat SEO techniques, we will have a better chance of acquiring quality backlinks and we will not get blacklisted too.

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